Thursday, July 15, 2010

R.I.P Serena and New Ducklings

We lost our dear girl, Serena yesterday. It was so strange last night going to bed and not having her there to say goodnight to and then waking up this morning without her. She was an amazing dog. She would have loved to see the new ducklings that came hatched out yesterday. She loved all animals but esp. the babies.

Here are a few of my fave photos I have of Serena.









Ok, no more. I am starting to tear up again. I'll always have the good memories of her.

On a much happier note. We had a dozen ducklings hatch yesterday. These are Apple's. Apple is my duck I got as a fertile egg from New York that I put in the incubator and hatched. Sky Jr. should of had ducklings also. She was sitting on a nest but I think the eggs weren't any good. She is helping Apple with her ducklings now.

Muscovy Ducklings card
Muscovy Ducklings by angelandspot
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Muscovy Duckling card
Muscovy Duckling by angelandspot
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Digital and Paper Collage

I am doing more collage work both digitally and also using actual paper. It is fun. I will upload more to my store soon. I have another stack of paper collages ready to photograph. I also have some more digital collages done and ready to upload. But sometimes there are too many people trying to upload at once so I can't get anything uploaded and have to try again later. Here are some of the items in my store already.











I've also been so busy with the farmer's markets each week but I try to find at least a little bit of time each day to do some collage work either digitally or using actual paper.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Handmade Cards

I have taken some photos of my handmade ATCs, ACEOs, ect. to sale as reproduction greeting cards. They are on Zazzle and a few are on another site also. The other site had the strangest request. They wanted me to make my handmade stuff not look so handmade and look more polished and professional. I thought the point of handmade was that it was handmade and not perfect. They didn't like the crinkled paper I purposely used on some of the ATCs for the effect I was going for. I've decided I won't be designing anything new for that other site and will be designing more for Zazzle now. Zazzle doesn't complain about the handmade look. I even have some fans of the store that like that look. I shouldn't have to change my art to satisfy what someone else (the other site) wants.

Here are a few of them that are new on Zazzle.



The other site let this one on but said it would be better if I digitally added the words instead of using my own handwritten words. But on a handmade card I think it should look handmade. Anyways... Thanks for letting me vent this morning.