Tree huggin' and cool envelopes what more could you ask for?

All these fancy catalogs come to my house... I can't afford to buy anything out of them, but I turned them into some cool envelopes. I even recycled the cardboard template from a UPS envelope. nice! Thanks to Paperseed for the great idea. I'm making the paint chip card holder and messenger bag next!

IF-Grow

Remember that bean plant you watched grow in kindergarten?

IF-extremes

 

IF-extremes

My goal with IF is to stay away from what I think are the obvious ideas that would pop into your head. This week for "extremes" I didn't want to do anything about bad/good, hot/cold, light/dark...that sort of thing. So, welcome to my world... I love sushi and spaghetti O's (just not at the same time).

See ya later kitties!

Happy to report that three more Travel Kitties have joined the world of travel.  I started out my little etsy shop with seven official Travel Kitties and after one week I only have two left.  That's pretty cool.  Hopefully I get some pictures rolling in soon.

Today I decided to join Monday Artday

Yup, Monday Artday. It's another reason to do something creative on a topic that I wouldn't normally have thought about. We'll see how it goes. This weeks topic is "retro." On a side note, I got some supplies for my Travel Kitty Correspondence Kit today. I already got started on it. I should however be making a Kermit the Frog costume...that project actually has a due date!

Art on Paper

I am very fortunate now to live in a town with a great library that has a huge selection of art books as well as periodicals. I've been reading issue after issues of Art on Paper and I thought I'd share some of the interesting bits here with you. In the May/June issues, 2006 was the article Floored. A Swiss artist named Joseph Felix Muller carved all the wood floors in his rental house to make four gigantic woodcut prints--how terrific! Huge, huge prints! Here's one picture: I found a few more pictures here. Getting the word out about the TRAVEL KITTY PROJECT continues,as does the work on a Travel Kitty Correspondence Kit I've been thinking about.

Finally, a blogroll.

I've been procrastinating about the blogroll for sometime now. Mostly, because I wanted to have it categorized and this theme wouldn't let me do it that way. Bummer. I realized I could add those little scroll-overs to tell a little about each one so you know what kind of site you're going to click. Anyway, check 'em out...I'll probably be adding a few more, but this was a good start.

Makin' friends at Etsy

Surprisingly after day one at Esty, I made 10 friends. I also had two of my little Travel Kitties leave the litter. Sad, but exciting. I look forward to the pictures from the owners. Cheers to old friends and new today, as I also received an email from a friend I've been missing. *Photo courtesy of the cool mac my husband got from work.

Illustration Friday-Open

 

Illustration Friday-Open

Just a quick one for IF folks out there. Thanks for coming to visit. Leave me a comment so I can come and check out what you're doing.

Travel Kitties on Etsy

Today I loaded up all my Travel Kitties over at Etsy. We'll see how it goes. It's been fun putting everything together for the Travel Kitty Project so, I hope some of you will want to play. I still have some things I want to add in the upcoming weeks, but I finally felt ready enough to list my stuff. Now I'll finally get back to Temporal Millionaire issue #3 which i've put on hold for a while. Thanks to those of you have been emailing me to trade or buy zines. It's always great to have some new reading material and art work around as well as some new pen pals!.

Where's the Travel Kitty?

Tyker Funf in Treir, Germany

See him in the statue's hand? This picture cracked me up, mostly because that's a little Travel Kitty I made and he's in Trier, Germany kicking back with this statue boy!

I've been consumed with the TKP in my free time, but it's finally getting close to getting officially started. I have the blog for it set up and looking pretty good. Tomorrow I upload the pictures for my esty store and then we'll see who wants to participate from there.

Here's a link to the Travel Kitty Project if you want to check it out.