From now through January 1, 2010 I’m offering FREE shipping on everything (everything! well, excluding custom orders) in my Etsy shop. I’ve also put my 2010 Birdie calendar on sale for HALF PRICE. It’s only $10 now, was $20.

Wicked good!

Based on numbers picked by this truly random number generator, the winners are Lacey (comment #6) and Lisa K. (comment #11)!! Yippee and congrats, ladies! I’ll be in touch to get your addresses and send the cards out asap.

Thanks to EVERYONE for entering. I loved reading all of your comments and I will definitely be trying some of those treat recipes (chocolate chip cookies with peppermint? yes please! Brownies with peppermint ice cream? YUM! Hot chocolate with a candy cane? ok! …are we sensing a theme here?) and will have to get some of the songs I don’t already have — I’m always looking for new holiday music!

I’m really excited that you were all so willing to play. I have been thinking about doing a giveaway for a calendar, too — look for that around New Year’s or right after (for all of us who realize we are without a calendar on Jan. 1!).

In honor of our first real snow this weekend, and just in time for sending out to your holiday card list, I’m giving away two separate sets of 8 holiday cards!

To enter just leave a comment with your favorite holiday song or album, or your favorite tasty holiday treat. Extra brownie points for a link to the song/album or recipe! Leave your comment by midnight EST Wednesday December 9. I’ll choose the winners (by random number generator thingy) on Thursday and contact you for your address to send them out asap!

I’m giving away one set of each of these designs (two chances to win!):

Bike with Wreath

&

Peace Stars

These are A2 size cards (4-1/4″x5-1/2″), hand-screenprinted here in my little hillside studio, blank inside, packaged up with envelopes for your sending pleasure.

good luck!

(That’s almost 4 months, for those of you who prefer your dates in monthly form.)

I may have started this pregnancy journey with a bit of a belly, but not quite like this! I have also been losing weight (?), but the belly continues to grow, so… it’s a baby bump for sure. The little one is supposedly the size of a navel orange these days, but of course quickly growing. At times I feel so amazed and overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it all, and at others it feels so normal already, so much a part of my life and my every day. {And of course a part of the grand scheme of the world and one of the most natural things that can happen.} I love it! (what I don’t love is the constant I-need-to-lie-down-right-NOW tiredness, ridiculous hunger followed by three bites of food and total fullness, and the most recent development of gagging reflexes kicking in during things like brushing my teeth. Yeah, those aren’t so fun.)

I’m still having some trouble mustering the energy to do much lately besides growing a human, but I’m trying! I did a little bit of sewing yesterday and it was really nice. I am also going to do some goccoing of holiday cards soon. If you are interested in a custom holiday card design, please contact me ASAP, as my holiday-making schedule is filling up fast! See the Events page for a complete list of where I’ll be selling the crafty goods in person, and you can also now find the 2010 Birdie Calendar and some cards in the Twist pop-up store in Thornes Marketplace in Northampton, MA! Yippee!

In honor of BerkshireMade’s official Team Launch earlier today on Etsy, I am offering two sales in my shop:

This one is extra special because it is today, Saturday March 14, ONLY:

Buy one 8×10 print and get one 5×7 print free! Any design listed in either size in the shop is available, just tell me what print you want in “notes to seller” at checkout ::::: {Does not include gocco/silkscreen prints}

AND through March 31, every order over $10 receives a free card (of my choice, though I will do my best to honor special requests in “notes to seller”!)

Other members are offering great deals such as free shipping or other discounts — visit the member page at BerkshireMade.org for all of our members and click the banners for their specific shops. Also see this thread in the Etsy forums for more info on what we’re all about and up to.

Che-check it out! (Below is our table from the Feb. 27th Berkshire Creative Spark! networking event — with work by most of our members on display, including my cool-colors Alphabet Soup print and some birdie sculptures.)

To kick the year off right, I’m holding a little sale (starting today!) on calendars and holiday cards over in my Etsy shop.

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and day so far… John and I had a chill night at home with some good friends and some good fondue. Delish! We also decided to kick the year off in a healthy way by denying our collective desire to go to Friendly’s for some greasy and fattening food for lunch/brunch and instead made ourselves some fresh-as-fresh homemade egg sandwiches. Someone told me once that fresh eggs are better for you than storebought, and I am choosing to believe that until I  am told otherwise. They certainly taste better. And are a completely different color (more yellow, if you’re wondering) than most all storebought eggs I’ve ever seen. Just saying.

I’m hoping to be back here in the next few days with some sort of year end/year beginning profound post, but for now… go shop my Etsy sale! yes!

hey hey I’m back from Boston — what a fun time! We really enjoyed Design Hive (Kari and Sarah joined me for the day, and Jaclyn, Vanessa and some other great friends stopped by!) — thanks everyone for buying my goodies and all the smiles and great feedback. It’s so fun to see people’s reactions to my work. And I’m happy to say that two of my new needle-felted birdies found a good home, which really makes it all worth while.

Also a few of my Peace Cranes made it to the Design Hive blog — thanks Val!

We also had a fantastic time shopping the Bazaar Bizarre, which was so inspiring to me. I brought home a few handmade holiday gifts as well as maybe a few things for myself (I only have so much willpower, really). There were some wonderful vendors there, including some of my favorites:

Ranunculae silkscreen cards and fabric goodies

Swallowfield Intricate art and fantastic-ness

1Girl1Boy Hand block-printed fabric goodness

Argyle Whale little illustrations of hedgehogs and goats and things

Campfire Goods T-shirts a-plenty for the type/geography/pop culture nerd in all of us

Egg-a-go-go Illustrationy crafty goodness {we all love the Button Collecting Bird!!!]

Family Dinner for One super star cliparty T’s

Fern Animals tiny soft sculptures

Mean & Wroughten welded art pieces (he was set up across from me at Design Hive, too!)

Miaow wonderful whimsical softies, so huggable!

Sewing Stars adorable plushies

Soto Softies more adorable plushies (sensing a theme?)

Traveling Rhinos Yarn and fiber goodies

Twigs and Heather gorgeous silver jewelry — my favorites are the maple seeds, I don’t think I’d ever take off a necklace so beautiful!

I also got some gorgeous earrings and a necklace at Design Hive from Erica Walker at Walker Silverworks, who was set up right near me — I’m wishing I had picked up a few of her star ornaments, since we’re about to decorate our tree tonight or tomorrow — they’d be so fantastically sparkly with the lights reflecting on them!

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This is where I’ve been all week. Hoping to get it cleaned up next week before I take off for a week in Arizona, visiting my Grandparents, my aunt and my cousin who had a baby recently!

To Do list before the trip:

• Sell much Crafty Goodness at the Richmond School Craft Fair tomorrow! (Nov 1, 10am to 3pm)

• Do much homework to hopefully be able to slack off while on “vacation”

•Clean up studio

•VOTE

• Help start a Berkshire Etsy Street Team — We’re meeting Tuesday at 4pm, at the Elm Street (Pittsfield) Juice and Java; all interested in being involved are welcome!

Here’s a peek at my makeshift craft fair setup in the kitchen:

These little stuffed budgies are now named after characters from “The Office” and some old friends — they make me smile! “Hello, I’m Jim and I like Tuna Sandwiches.” “Hello, I’m Andy and I love flannel shirts.”

And, lastly… it’s Halloween! Not one of my favorite holidays, and we just hung out and handed out candy (I tried a tactic of buying candy I don’t like, and I have to say I only tried one piece so I think it worked… ) and HappyDog wore her first ever semi-outfit, and I think she looks adorably festive. We actually got this bandana to keep her safe from bow hunters out in the state forest we walk in by our house, but I think it might have to become a regular fashion statement — isn’t she the cutest?

“You are a dork. I can’t believe you’re making me wear this.”

Happy Halloween! Hopefully I’ll see you tomorrow if you’re around the Berkshires!

There’s nothing like a deadline to get me to work on into the night! And a newly (almost) organized studio doesn’t hurt, either. I don’t want to show the design just yet, because it’s a gift for a friend, but will soon. It was a fun one to come up with, though. Cuteness abounds!

I will show off the backs of the cards drying atop my new library table/desk, though. Note the swanky new ikea bookcases and paper chandelier. love!