My Momma

Look at this sweet little lady! I just had to share this photo, I think it is just so delightful. This photo is from the summer of 1970. I just acquired a massive amount of negatives from my Mom, dating from the 1970's and possibly the 80's as well (haven't gone through them all yet.) Isn't she lovely? I have decided that I will undertake the massive project of scanning them all in on my awesome Epson scanner. This project may take me several years at my snails' pace, but I am sure it will be rewarding! First I really have to figure out the best settings to scan all these in at, it is actually trickier than I thought. I don't think I am going to go the "fully automated" settings-route, I can't imagine that will give me the best image quality. Leave any tips you have for me in the comments! (please do not steal this image, all rights reserved cutiepie company)

Vote: Etsy Community Poll

oh, happy day! I made it into the Etsy Community Poll this week! Please vote for my Lady in Red moleskine by following this link, http://www.etsy.com/voter_list.php?ref=voter&room_id=61

This week's theme is Back to School Supplies... something close to my heart, because school supplies send my heart all aflutter! I have not been a student in just over ten years (finished college in 1999, boy do i feel old!) but I just go gaga for notebooks, pens, pencils, paper, labels, staples, paper clips, and so forth... I would be happy winning a shopping spree for Office Depot or Staples! My favorite of course, are old-school stationery shops and the like, but I can do some monetary damage anyplace that sells post-its and notepads! Hee hee.

My First Craft Show

I did my first craft show last weekend! I've been meaning to post about it all last week, but life got a little busier than I expected. So here are a couple of photos of our display. NYCrochet (my friend Ashley) and I shared a table--we were rather proud of how it turned out! (we did get together to practice putting together our display beforehand...) Sales were *less* than spectacular, I won't lie. That was a bit disappointing. However, the weather was really perfect, it was a great learning experience, and we met some cool people. We also got to hang out with some of our other friends who stopped by. I would say we probably made enough to cover our table fee and the money we spent on food and other things. I bought a super cute felted brooch that I will have to post about here once I stop being lazy and take a photo of it!

I love the graffiti behind our display in this photo, haha!

Although he didn't come to the craft fair with us, we also had some items from Corporan Glass (my boyfriend) on display. They are some of his samples (i.e., affordable) pieces. They happen to match with Ashley and my items perfectly!

Weekend Etsy Sale!

I am participating in the Weekend Deals promotion on Etsy this weekend, from 7/24-7/26. I am offering BOGO 1/2 Off, so just thought I'd give a little heads up! Please see my shop announcement for full details! Happy Weekend everyone!

FP Treasury

I was of course, sound asleep when my treasury made it to the FP, but it is exciting nevertheless! My School Rules treasury was on the Etsy front page at 7 am today!





Row 1 ErinDollar, Madebyanna, Foundpaperco
Row 2 QuietDoing, Zoetropa, MyLittleBooks
Row 3 Meander, Mozellemetana, JesseHoraDotCom
Row 4 PaisleyDogPress, Jimbot, CarolynJoan

Congrats Everyone!

Etsy Treats: More Diane Reafsnyder

I treated myself to another summery top by the lovely and talented Diane Reafsnyder! There are always so many incredible things on Etsy that I want, so much so that I hardly ever allow myself to purchase stuff. Which sounds strange, but for one thing, I just can't decide, and for another, I am limited in space and could never afford all the wonderful things in my Favorites! Every once in a while though I will treat myself to something, namely clothing. I can easily justify this to myself because I do need new clothes every so often, particularly with each change of seasons :-) And it makes me happy to support other Etsy folk when I can!

So this is the wonderful linen top I purchased, I am looking forward to receiving it! I think you will agree it is so pretty and affordable, too. She has another one in brown linen, equally as lovely. Thanks, Diane!

Hello Lovelies

It's been almost a month since my last post! I am hoping to get back into posting more regularly again. So many things came up in the last four weeks, and I'm just getting caught up. I was rather sick for more than two weeks, my boyfriend's Mom has been in town and staying with us, and I went back to work doing some long hours. I did, however, manage to get my new website up and running, though I failed to even post about that! So yes, Cutiepie Company is now live, on my own domain! Yay! I am going to work on making a button for my blog to link to it. If anyone has some tips or easy directions how to do that, let me know!
Also, thank you to the ladies that participated in the Pay-it-Forward! Packages should have arrived by now, hope you like 'em. You can visit the participants Marieke, Jessi and Yet if you wish to participate too!