For the softie makers

I just saw this on http://danitaart.blogspot.com/ . It's an announcement for softie submissions to a Stampington Publication.

I love their magazines! Anyway I wrote an email saying I was interested. What softie maker wouldn't be?? They put out beautiful, inspiring magazines.

So if any of you softie makers are reading this, go take a look and try for submissions! :) There is a June deadline so hurry.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/20796593@N00/discuss/72157604419034177

New creations and some of my packaging.

I REALLY need to work on organization because I really can do a good display, haha.
Display makes a huge difference.

I used to have so much "stuff" but each time I moved I got rid of a lot.....DUMB. I don't think downsizing is good for everyone, nope NO WAY. Packrats should stick to what they know best. :)

It's all about the light, man

Okay, well I dunno if the weather all over the country is bizarro, too, but this year we have had more rain and gray days. A week or so ago it got hot and summery and we all thought HEY! This is it, winter is over, YAY....but then the rain and clouds came back. I don't mind too much because I can get more work done when the weather isn't so grand, but it's the lighting, man... It makes it harder to take a decent photo. You should see me, hauling the little creatures around, throwing blinds around, pushing curtains back,uploading,cursing blurry pics, repeat! Repeat!!! I am a mini hurricane during this whole process. Maybe it's just me.

I made three new little creatures, but I am going to try to hope for some sun later and take the pics then. Here is a sneak peek of one in midnight's lightbulb light.

Brooch Pin

I am going to start making little monsters called Lost and Foundlings from my scraps...which really is what inspires me anyway. So to even try to suggest (on my part)that they are an afterthought isn't right. Somehow it's the "for fun" "to relax" projects that are really the heart and soul of you.

Catfish Kate

I dunno, everytime I make a new stuff-ed I think it is my fave....

Samson

Here's the new Monster all stuffed. I love his colors. They define me, most of the time...hehe.

Inspiration

I am always inspired by the cut, inside-out, fraying parts of clothes....or fabric. It's my scrap bowl(haha, yeah a tupperware one) that inspires me....and when I say scraps I don't mean what other people probably mean...the skinniest scraps and shreds that i can't throw away, only useful to the nutty. Anyway it's looking at all that tangled thread that gets my wheels working. I don't know about you but this is how I work.