My creative space

This week's creative space is the kitchen table again.
Simply because it's the only table in our home which is mostly cleared of things so I can easily whip up a craft there. Running a handmade business involves handmade thank you notes.
It doesn't take that much time to make 'em and they are fun to send with an order.
I know I always appreciate a handwritten thank you note from people I buy from.
However, I have to admit: I do write in capitals as my handwriting would be hard to decipher... and when it's a long 'thank you' message, I sometimes even type it! :)

Want to show off your creative space? Hop over to Kootoyoo's to play! It's fun! :)

Poppytalk & comfort food...

Heli , remember from who I bought the fantastic pouch recently, told me that my 99-feelings project was published in Poppytalk's newsletter the other day. Yay!
If it weren't from my friends telling me where they see them, I probably would never know. Anyway, she was so kind to forward me the newsletter and here it is:
But of course, I browsed through the whole newsletter (signed up for it too) and then I see the word 'comfort food' and instantly it has my whole attention! Not that I need it so much, but I just love food and what's better then comfort food? Besides, I have been wanting to make a banana bread for ages so I started making it right away! :) And I can advise you to do the same as it's just delicious! :) If you click on the picture you can see it enlarged.

Work in progress

While being busy claying mini art feelings, I'm happy to take a break in the evening and crochet on the rainbow babuschka's I planned to make. I just filled them all with polyfil and now I only need to close their bottoms! I think they already look super happy! :)

Custom creative

The very first customer of my mini art feelings was the sweet Anna of TheHouseofMouse. You most likely have seen her amazing work on Etsy already and if you haven't, you should go and look now. She also has a very fun blog.
She creates many different characters into amazing mice creatures. I'm often in awe of her boundless creativity and her creatures always make me giggle!
This is my absolute favorite although it was hard to choose...Anyway, Anna really seemed to love her feeling 'creative' so she decided she needed a big sister for her. The bigger version of my feelings seem giants in comparison to the mini feelings but still they have 'cute' written all over them I think. They are approximately 15cm or 6 inches in height and are a bit rounder on the head and straighter on the bottom. They do derive from the same drawing I once made to start these Babuschka's off. I just enlarged the design underneath the copy machine and then made the mould from a solid handbuild babuschka. The smaller they get, the less shape they seem to have. It's like when you grow up, your body starts to form more - or less depending in what age category you are! LOL :)
Anyway, I hope she likes her big sister...

Happy features

As I'm superduper happy with all the attention my '99 feelings' project is getting, I want to share some of the features they got in the past week.

The first two customers both blogged about my work which I thought was supersweet and thoughtful.

Huismus and TheHouseofMouse are not only teammates of the European Streetteam but also wonderful friends! Thank you lovelies!

Then another supersweet and heartwarming feature I found was on the very stylish blog of Neawear. Her blog amazes me everytime I go there 'cause she just seems to have the gift of finding amazing things to blog about all the time.

I also got many convo's of people telling me that my little dragon feeling was in the 'geek chic gift guide' on Etsy. Yay, it's loving it there. The little fellow got more hearts than he could ever dream off.

Yesterday morning I got a convo from Kristi from France, whom I never heard off before, that she submitted my '99 feelings project' to Notcot. I'll be sure to send her a happy package. The feature at Notcot linked to the little montage on my blog and nearly made my blog explode. It caused so much traffic that I'm just really overwhelmed by the fact what a feature on a high traffic site can do.

And last but certainly not least, Jena from Modish featured my work! YaY! Modish is a daily design blog which features handmade goods. Jena recently started a new blog called ModishBiz which gives very helpful tips & tricks for creative businesses. If you run a creative business, be sure to check it out. i. It gets heaps of traffic too so I'm kind of glad that I'm running an on line store so I can just leave it open while I sleep.

The amount of traffic to my Etsy shop has also been enormous, and my google stats are very confused but hopefully they'll get used to it soon! :)

Thank you all for the superlovely features and attention you gave this project.

While I'm at it, I want to apoligize for my absence on your blogs. I'm just really much behind on everything.
It has been so crazy the past weeks that I just try to queeze as much in as I can and somehow catching up with it all is impossible. I'll be back though! ;)

My creative space

The past week has been rather hectic. I have been claying like nobody was watching. Well, euh, I thought I should show you how that looks...
And I put on the kiln to fire this morning so I finally have time to be a domestic goddess and pick up everything where I left it in the house. It will take me a while but I thought I could best start with my atelier. I feel organised! :)
If you want to play along and show your creative space, please hope over to Kootoyoo's blog. It's so much fun!

Heartwarming welcome

Today a week ago, I started listing the first feelings in my shop. It was exciting to list them and I thought I would have finished the task by today but I'm not even halfway yet. Why did I make 99 again? :)
When the first feelings sold, I was superhappy and at the same time emotional as well. The process of creating them, buying a kiln, blogging, pricing, make a description, find ways to package and display,... has been super intense. It feels like a journey coming to an end but at the same time I hope it is just the beginning.
I'm overwhelmed by the massive welcome they got by many, many people. In a week time, my shop got about 250 new hearts & I didn't even count all the hearts the individual listings got.
Amazing too how many people wrote me to let me know they love what they see.
Here's a few:
'I just have to tell you that I think your "sad" feeling is a beautiful piece of work. I have never come across something so simple that can evoke such a strong emotion. I can't stop looking at it! :)'

'I just want to say that I absolutely love your series. I want every single one of them and don't know how I've lived without them. unfortunately, I'm in america, where our economy is in the toilet, so I must admire virtually. thanks for creating such a beautiful art piece! my cousin and I are smiling.'

'I am fascinated by this series you have created. They are simply delightful. I will be ordering more (for myself!) hopefully soon after I have had a chance to decide on which ones. Your "Patience" piece is especially beautiful.'

'I just have to let you know I'm completely obsessed with your feeling sculptures. The entire line is brilliant, beautiful, and just plain wonderful.'

'I am absolutely head over heels in love with your work.'

It goes without saying that this just warms my heart and put a big smile to my face!
Thank you all for your unconditional support through all of this! :)
Oh, and I also want to thank my teammates for including my work in numerous treasuries! Some of them even made a whole treasury of them! Thank you, Kreativlink, it looks super! :)