A universe of beautiful new ACEOs.

A whole universe of itty bitty paintings now exists on my etsy site. So tiny, yet so fierce.

Doll & Plushy Treasury

I love how plushes and dolls run the gamut from $30 to $300.

More things I like...

I love typography roundly, and here are some of my favorites. Please enjoy. :)

I made a pretty picture, and then it was gone.

The Etsy Treasury is an evil beast.


But I like this anyway.

Things I Like: Stamps Edition

Love this. Original goodness can be found here.

Vampires on the TV, as usual

It's been a most glorious day, with vampires fluttering about the television, fighting each other and various demons as usual. This, from the girl that watched all of Buffy (every episode) in order in a semester. I'm slowly hacking my way through Angel as I impatiently wait for the next season of True Blood to come out. I rented 30 Days of Night the other day with the fiancé, liked it heartily. Read the book Sundays with Vlad a while ago, liked that as well, though it had its dull moments. Didn't like Anne Rice or (dare I say it?) S'meyer nearly as much, but I suppose you can't win 'em all. Vampires are just everywhere.

Oh. The paintings.

They're 11" by 14" on canvasboard. Quite lovely. I haven't painted anything big like this in acrylic in a good long while, and I'm pleasantly surprised with how they came out. I didn't even get completely covered in paint this time. I think I might break out the old oil paint set sometime, just to have fun, but on a day when I can open the window and not freeze to death. I hope that time of year may come around soon. Very soon. I'm kind of burned out on the cold and dark, even though I'm sure the vamps are loving it.

A Bowflexing Nightmare Tendency

I've been going crazy with painting lately. My arms have been covered in paint, often in red paint, making me look like some kind of an escapee from the set of 28 Days Later or somesuch.

Here are some of my most recent offerings to ye olde Gods of Internet, all of which are available at $10 each (or 3 for $25) here.

They also double as the coolest stationery you've ever seen.

Imagine getting a letter that's been hand-done. Getting mail is fun enough as it is, what with the stamp, and the canceling, and the handwritten nature of the front, and all that. I'm so over e-mail. It's not nearly as fun as snail-mail. In fact, I've come to sort of loathe e-mail. If only it weren't so damn convenient.

This entry has degenerated swiftly into babbling. I am off to make my studio even more of a mess, just to make completely sure that if I don't get my security deposit back on the house I'm renting, it'll be worth it.

Pogo the Handmade Screenprinted Cloth and Ribbon Doll

This damsel is Pogo, so-called because my fiancé saw her before I had completed her second leg. Once I finished her other leg, he started calling her "Double-Pogo," which, I pointed out to him, makes no sense.

She's made of recycled materials except for the Poly-Fil in her arms and legs. Her face has been hand-screenprinted via freezer paper stencils. She's available for purchase in the plushy section of my etsy shop. A part of me thinks it wouldn't be terrible if she wasn't bought and I could keep her forever. Then I remember that money is good. So either way, I suppose life is all right.

Heart Notecards

Notecard illustration is so satisfying in so many ways. I think we need to bring back stationery to the masses. There's nothing quite like going to the post office and buying a stamp. They try to make stamps as nifty as they can to entice people to buy them. It's working, at least in my case. My favorites at present are these:

The Abraham Lincoln ones are unsettling in the best way possible.

ACEO Madness

Being rocked out right here:

are my new ACEOs for Etsy. I am really busy making a lot of new illustrations, and they've been flying off the shelves (as it were), mostly in trades. What I like about Etsy, among other things, is the trading function. I trade on illustratedatcs.com for other cards, but on Etsy, I can trade for things like earrings and stuffed animals and clothing. Which is fun. But slightly expensive. Whoops.