Collage Scrap Packs

These packs are packed with wonderful goodies! Each one is $10- and available at Reclamations in So Bro (north of downtown Indianapolis). I could make a couple of hundred more I am sure of it. My studio is busting at the seams! In fact it is so full I won't let anybody see it...We even handmade an envelope and some tags for each pack.
If you are interested in having a scrap pack and you live outside of Indianapolis. Please contact me and I can make that happen. After you pay me of course. :)

www.pinpoints.etsy.com

My friend Kristina Estell and I just started a new etsy shop. She lives in Minnesota and I live in Indianapolis...she was home visiting over the holidays and we brainstormed at a Barnes and Noble one afternoon...both of us wanting to collaborate. We work well together even if we are apart. So in just over a month we have launched our little button company.

Here is how our friendship began:

Jenny and Kristina met in the dusty workshop of furniture design 201 at Herron School of Art. Sharing a workbench 3 hours at a time, day after day, week after week, they soon became great class companions and realized they shared many common interests. Jenny started a successful craft business and Kristina joined the enterprise by working for her as a maker, baker and lunching partner. A great working relationship and friendship was formed. After graduation, Kristina moved away and said “good bye ” to Indiana. Through years of change, new work, travels, and adventures, Jenny and Kristina have always remained good friends. Pin Points is their long distance collaboration...a place to bring two artistic visions together once again in a unique, fun and simple set of pins. Each set reflects the distinct visual interest of each of the artists as well as “pin points” their special artistic connection.
Kristina - Jenny

Jenny - Kristina

Kristina - Jenny

We do special orders....! Check us out at www.pinpoints.etsy.com

Gift Bags

Been busy creating things from what I have. My cousin Ginny Kay (thank you) gave me a bunch of old photos and since they are "newer" than what I use for artwork I decided that I needed to make some gift bags. It started out Ed and I sitting at the kitchen table creating funny tag lines. Like Hey Madge, ... (well her panties are showing) your mandolin is showing. Ed and I work well together. But, I lost interest in about the 28th tag line. So I went on to do something else and Ed wrote about 95 of them. They are funny!!!!

I took them to my new booth space at Reclamation in SoBro.
I am destaching like MAD!!!! Collage Scrap Packs are next.

I just added a new blog that I LOVE...this is a young Mother's blog who is expecting her second child. I love her recipes and tips check it out! www.delightedmomma.com

Feelings and Fears

(this is what I should write as a journal entry if I kept a journal)

This is my newest space at Recalmation in So-Bro (which is south of Broadripple (Indiana) I think it looks better in "real life". I am always willing to try new things to generate income. Never afraid of it. But, after I am all set up I question myself. like: this space is in the basement and the stairs are kinda of steep. will anyone go downstairs, are they going to shop lift, is it cute at all, what if I don't make my rent etc etc etc.... For me I love the hunt but I LOVE to SELL it even more. For me this is part of my "job" my "income" I am not playing shop. But, I can't take it too seriously because it is only STUFF. The pro's are the shop is open 7 days a week, they have been getting some press, and I have sold a few things. IT is WINTER people stay in and re-arrange furniture (at least that is what I have been doing)...it will be fine. It will all be fine.....

Reclamation SPACE

My biggest cheerleaders...my Mom and Step dad Jim. I asked them today if they at least enjoyed doing it....I got some sort of smart alec comment :) I could'nt do this without them. We set up a sort of stable Wall in my new space at Reclamations in Southern Broadripple today...it is a work in progress (as everything is). I pulled all these doors and bulletion boards etc. from my garage. (some courtesy of Robbie Moriarty) I will post another picture when I have more in the space. Going back this Weds. stay tuned......

a dog, a tree and a deer

Our Lucy posed under the tree this Holiday Season right after I put down the tree skirt...shortly after it was littered with little packages so she left it alone....until this week. We caught her getting a back rub from the tree (ornaments swinging) and then yesterday she felt the tree skirt would be a great place to eat a raw hide. Of course it was natural and green...that skirt will never be the same. But, she's our GIRL!
I found these spheres at the Exit 76 Antique Mall where I have my spaces (only $4- each) I decided to hang them on our enclosed front porch and then the deer wanted to be a part of things so he is sporting a santa hat. For special times we turned on a spot light. It was all kinda weird but, hey if the shoe fits... :) Ed is in charge of taking down the tree, I fear it may be up through Valentines Day.