more etsyyyyy

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54662080/pixiebird-delirium-print

prints! huzzah!

Etsy showcase woo!

These last 2 weeks I've been trying to step up my etsy life--I disabled the store function on my website, so it really is my only store now, so I better try harder I feel. Anyway, I've been featured in a couple awesome showcases...apparently unicorns are a good move...

YAY!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c6ed70445968eef171ac3d7/the-last-unicorn
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c65eabbf0d86d91c32cba96/unicorns
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c61d515347c6d91b25ffb18/tattoo-you

i love when i realize someone out there has actually seen and reacted to something I've done on this weird, solo internet thing.

A peek at a project

I've taken the leap on trying to get a mini-book together. Hopefully for APE, but if not, well, at least I'll have DONE it, right?

Here's a taste... wish me luck on finishing it. Now I've talked about it, so I HAVE to, right... right?

blargy arg etc.

I'm having trouble balancing my internet selves. I see people keep up with these beautifully written blog posts and I just think, "damn! I'm just not that interesting inside!" Anyway, I'm a little better with ye ol' facebook (less commitment, i think), so please feel free to be a "fan" (haw!) over here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/pixiebird/106053035720

Renegade was a ball of stress but turned out well: here's my lone photo!

Emma is the best booth babe, and I got to sort of awkwardly avoid taking credit for her work. Our stuff is just similar enough that no one can tell whose is whose, so she'd go for a walk and I'd be fielding this exchange:

them: your work is BEAUTIFUL!
me: um, yes, it is! But it's not mine, mine is over here...but Emma is AMAZING! YES!
them: OH! Oops, I mean, yours is beautiful too!
me: Oh it's ok! I didn't mean you should, oh, um, you don't have to... oh hell.

so that was that. but it was good and worth it none the less.

speaking of blog envy, i spent a bit of time on the "elephant" site today. It's sort of huge and daunting, so i couldn't really definitively describe it, but it comes from boulder and reminds me of my dear home town and all that, so... anyway i encountered some lovely writing, but instead of inspiring me, it just made me blue. clearly i'm a cranky curmudgeon today, which is TRUE!!! but
after reading that for a while it just seems that everyone in that world has it figured out. And they have money. And they are all trim yoga-fabulous. And zenner than thou. And probably sleep on bamboo-rice beds or something. And generally having a better time than me while looking fanTAStic and spreading joy in the dance of energetic love or something. I love that place, and I love a lot of that energy and "commuuuuuunity" and all, but it's only after leaving that I begin to return to it. Only now that I stop rolling my eyes and studying Buddhism myself. I don't really have a point here.

aaaaand HERE'S some stuff I've listed on Etsy! Huzzah!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/pixiebird



What else? I'm starting to hate my job and get that itchy feeling again. Veering between hope and excitement and CRUSHING RAGE AND DOOOOOM! Food service will do that. Trying to maintain a positive outlook while coping with the fact that I am inherently kinda surly. But a good cook! Hope you are all well out there in internet land.

Bourbon and Chocolate MIlk

I've been, once again, lax in my virtual life. Laaa di da. Renegade Craft Fair is coming up, so I've been trying to pull together some last minute nonsense for that. I also had a grand train of thought to expound on, but then my friends careened in reeking of sun and expensive booze, and derailed the whole damn thing.

the basics:

work work work

think dream consider ponder sleep

when is the right time to let go and just jump?

Here's some things for you to look at.

New Promo Banner.

New Postcard. Yes, I did some clever reusing.

New Shirt! Note: Do not take model shots at 4 am after goth dancing all night.



SEE?!

New stuff is up at http://www.etsy.com/shop/pixiebird
should you desire to check it out...

...fresh, warm bread with honey-butter and tea...mmm...

...and Etsy. I love Etsy. It's fantastic. But damn, people can make (and sell) some ugly shit. Amazing.

That's the problem with this line of work. If you're a software engineer and you suck at math and your coding is shit, well, you're a lousy software engineer and should probably brush up your waitressing skills. But when you're an artist? How can you scale what's good or not? A lot of the stuff that sells is not what I'd consider good, but who am I to judge someone's precious inner-expression and vision. Bah. You see?!?!!

Capsule!

Capsule was grand fun, despite alternately burning me to a crisp, freezing me to a shivering mess, and attempting to blow everything away. I kid you not. I felt stupid for not having a cool pop-up canopy until one got blown over and snapped like a cheap toy. The skeleton was left to it's inglorious fate in the alley like a defeated future-monster.

DESPITE THIS...it was tons of fun. I met a few fantastic people, including a really sweet Blue-Bottle barista and a kid who'd seen my work at Lower Haters but couldn't buy the shirt he wanted 'cause they didn't have it in his size...but I did! Me to the rescue! If you've stumbled to my page of occasional ranting as a result of the fair, hello and welcome! My etsy store is looking mighty lonely these days, but it's next on my list to work on getting things up on it, so please check back occasionally. Also my site itself. It's soon to be updated, and the store feature should be generally disregarded, as stock has changed so much--please don't try to buy anything off it.

I'm off to bake some comfort-food bread now. yep.