Whimsical coasters

These coasters are a special request from RunAliceRun! She has two great shops here on Etsy: RunAliceRun and PipingHotPapers. Alice likes to sit in her kitchen in the morning and wake up with a lovely cup of coffee. Therefore she wanted some whimsical coasters to brighten up her day. I loved making these coasters especially for Alice - she's a lovely personality that makes me laugh and smile quite often! :)These coasters are made with the wetfelting technique. I have used my own handdyed felt so there might be some colordifferences. I used two colors: turquoise and kobaltblue and I think it looks fabulous! Thank you Alice for giving me the opportunity to make these for you! They were a lot of fun making so I might add some to my shop sometime soon.

Townhall meeting

There was a town hall meeting on Etsy yesterday. For that, they shut down treasury West temporarily. Hmm, just when I have time to make a treasury, they decide to do that! ;)
So, I went to the townhall meeting instead. It was quite interesting to hear about some of the changes that will take place on Etsy in the near future. You can read all about it in the unofficial Etsy news and later this week in the Storque, Etsy's on line newsmagazine. There was also time to ask questions but they never answered the 'when'-questions like 'when will the currency converter be implemented?' I think that was a bit wishful thinking... well, it never hurts to try! :)

No mess

Being a busy bee, I tend to leave bits and pieces lying about instead of putting them in the right spot. I work best in a clean and tidy workspace, so either I clean up before or after but when I'm busy at work, I'm not taking the time for that and things get out of hand... Then they don't disturb me all that much since I always find a way to tuck them away a bit further then were I work at that time. But after some time, I don't have any room left and I'm bound to tidy up my mess. So I did today... My atelier is not completely finished. There still need to be put wooden floors, a long workingtable, cabinets and it still needs to be painted. Meanwhile, I'm trying to gain as much space as I can with simple solutions as wooden wine crates. My partner had a few of them lying about and I claimed them to use them as little cabinets. I can put stuff in it and on top of it.I can make double mess that way - I like that! :) Now it's looking all good again - fresh start of the new week!

999 hearts

Is it silly or is it cute?
I'm very happy: my Etsy-shop reached 999 hearts today!
EvaSeva is my 999th heart. Check out Eva's unique, bright, colorful and groovy dresses! Eva has a magical touch with colours, all her designs are hip and bright!

Heartwarming thoughts to all that hearted me! :)

Cheeky or not?

Joeysdreamgarden send me a little note the other day. She used the word cheeky in it.

This word sounds so sweet to me that I made her explain it.

This is what it means to her:

It's when someone "bends the rules", whether they are written rules or a norm of behaviour, and it's done in an endearing or inoffensive manner. The opposite to CHEEKY for me would be "RUDE". So if people do something wrong (in my eyes) then they are either RUDE (being selfish) or CHEEKY (doing something for their own benefit but showing in some way that they are aware of that and trying to limit the amount of inconvenience to the other person.) So to me, it would be rude of someone to push in front of me in a queue in a shop, but I would find it cheeky if someone asked very nicely to go in front of me in the queue because they have a bus to catch. There is fine line between cheeky and rude... to me it depends on what mood i'm in whether i'll find somebody as being cheeky or rude!

To me, Joey is definately cheeky in the sweet way - she makes the loveliest bunny brooches and I'm sure that somewhere she's hiding away more fabulous bunnies...

Yellow mellow?

This is a custom made necklace in a bright and happy color.
Just right for a lovely, warm summerday!
We couldn't decide on the accents, so I just made two.

It actually will be harder to choose from now. :)

Flabbergasted

flab·ber·gast (flbr-gst)
tr.v. flab·ber·gast·ed, flab·ber·gast·ing, flab·ber·gasts
To cause to be overcome with astonishment; astound. See Synonyms at surprise. [Origin unknown.]

adjective
as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion" [syn: dumbfounded ]