Eat, drink, be merry, and don't forget to give lots of hugs!
If I had to describe my mood these days, it would be dreamy and creative (at least, I would like to think so). Knowing that, you'll see why for this weekend's Shopping List Saturday, I chose these nine wonderful objects:
And working with vintage stamps, Indian printing blocks, and even fabric pens these last few days, I have been making many of these. Lesson no. 5: Learn.
However the fine construction won him over, and mini Apol fell in love with the place as soon as she saw the mini apples growing all over.
With much excitement they ran to the top, to look down and exclaim, "Oh, how high!" (Almost everything has this effect on the couple, since they are only about an inch tall.)
They didn't have time to enjoy the view, as there was knocking on the door. Back on terra firma, they discovered their neighbors all lined up, eager for a tower tour.
And now it can be told: The reason my Shopping List Saturday was so brief was because I was also at the same time looking for 21 beautiful items for Etsy's blog The Storque. They had asked me to put together Shop Local France, and I had fun not just looking through all the shops based here, but also getting to know the faces behind the shop names. What are you still doing here? Go look! :)
I've heard it said many times that blogging gives you the urge to do the strangest things. For example, take a photo of your shoes while you're out for a little walk in the old city.
This is going to be short and sweet, but a visual treat nonetheless! Today my Shopping List is all about cuteness. (Just a quick look at my shop and you'll know that I have a passion for it :D). These are the four items that made me go "Awwwwww, that's sweet!" over the past six days:
My embroidered drawings are now available in my book shop.
If you love my Sleep Angels, now's the time to get one! I'm offering free shipping on these dolls and their sisters until Monday at 12 midnight, New York time. Click here to see all the Angels I have available. Happy shopping!
... is beautiful!!!
Look at all these beautiful Etsy stuff that caught my eye this week!
Heart Handmade's downloadable zine is up!
Itsy sent me an e-mail, and a few days later, I made these. They're called One-Day-at-a-Time Worry Dolls, little creatures to help you work on your anxieties and your stresses. Miss Monday and Mister Tuesday are already listed in my shop.
To veer away from the happy-happy tone of this blog--but not by too much, as I have always made it obvious that I am a fan of strange stories--reading two articles in Le Monde (article no. 1 here and article no. 2 here) got me thinking of the Antonio Cuaron film Children of Men, where Clive Owen lives in a future where human beings have all become infertile.
By the way, speaking of short stories, the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler is up. Editors Charles Tan and Mia Tijam describe it as a "virtual anthology" of speculative fiction in English written by Filipino writers. Cover art is by the very cute (I think) Andrew Drilon. Click and read!
This past week, life got a lot less busy than it has been for a long time, and so I was click-happy and spent more time just surfing the net. At Etsy, these are what I caught my eye for today's Saturday Shopping List.
I had sworn to myself that I would never make mushrooms. Just because I thought that the amazing Stephanie Congdon Barnes had sort of put a period on the sentence devoted to plush mushrooms in the crafting world. No, not a period, an exclamation point. Three of them even!
However, a recent trip to the Cevennes where for two entire days the talk and the food had centered around "les champignons" got me thinking again. That, and at a friend's house leafing through a book whose title I had forgotten to note down, but whose pictures devoted to beautiful fungi I can't get out of my mind.
The power snack for sewers on a deadline! I've been eating so much I'm starting to look like a squirrel...
It was a nice, sunny day here in the south, but I had to stay in and sew. I did reward myself with a trip to the moviehouse at 10 p.m. to see Hellboy 2. Knowing that movies are released a bit later here in France, I have to ask: Is that something that the rest of the world saw six months ago?
All these was taken on the last night my friend and I spent together in Paris. Daki and I have known each other for 20 years (gasp! can you say, we're old?) and had not seen each other for three of those. He had been talking for days about getting off at the Métro's Trocadéro station at night to have a look at the tower. I was a bit hesitant, just because doing so seemed too cheesy! Finally, on Tuesday, when his work helping curate an exhibit at the Unesco was finally done, and we had had a good dinner and had shared a bottle of wine, we finally did it. Despite my earlier misgivings, I'm glad we did.
Laurent will be listing smaller paintings and greeting cards in the next few days so put him in your bookmarks and check back often!
Did you know that the Eiffel Tower is these days blue?
Another thing you might not know is that I'm currently the Featured Seller at Etsy! Below, see me somewhere in Montmartre, screaming "Yey-oo!"
First row, left to right: Aurora by Seaunicorn, La Vie en Rose by MoonstruckMo, 
Photo from Haus Maus.
