This Little Piggy

I am always trying to figure out what new prints and paintings to add to the shop. This little piggy will soon be making an appearance. However, I still can't decide on what new animal paintings to introduce. I have been thinking about painting a dinosaur, a cow or a mouse. I would love to hear from you and what you would like me to paint next.

Before and After

In between working on custom orders and trying to get my shop restocked with paintings, I have also been doing some sketching. This little girl is part of the "flower girls" series I have been working on. She is based on the cover of the 1960s sewing patterns I have fallen in love with (and purchased from lovely Etsy shops). You can see her "before" as the original sketch and "after" she was lightly digitally colored. Off to the printer she goes...

Win A Print!

Win an Animal Cracker Print! I will be giving away one 8x10 print on March 1. Just visit http://www.animalcracker.etsy.com/ then come back and leave a comment about which print you like the best and why. All prints from the shop included.

Flower Girls

This little Flower Girl will soon be making her appearance in the shop....along with a few of her friends....

It's A Baby.......Shower!

I am happy to be participating in the Winter 2010 Etsy Baby Shower. For those of you who might not know about the Etsy Baby Shower - here is the scoop! A few times a year, several Etsy shops that sell items for babies and children get together and hold a baby shower for recent Moms and Moms to Be. Each Mom receives 2 or 3 free shower gifts from participating shops. It is a lot of fun for everyone!

Although the slots for this current shower are filled - all you Moms to be out there keep it in mind for the future! Check-out the Etsy Baby Shower blog for more information and updates on upcoming events!

http://www.etsybabyshower.blogspot.com

Some fun......

My new animal prints are arriving....feels like Christmas! Yippie. I will be adding them to my shop over the next week or so.

The waiting game.....

As many of you may know, all of my prints are printed at a real print shop. One of the trade-offs of not zipping an image thru my own printer is the waiting game. After I send everything to my printer, I have to wait for the proofs to come back. Then I have to make changes to the proofs and then wait again for the final images to be printed. In the end it is worth it. The quality of the final product - the kind of paper used, the overall look and feel of the print is first rate. But in the meantime the waiting continues......

Here are a couple examples of the new prints that will be making their way into my shop over the next week or so.