have an unabashedly late post--what can i say,  ideas come to me at the weirdest times of night! i've been in dire need of some printed care labels for my orders--all i've used since was this little kraft tag for thank you notes, which would work just fine if my penmanship was any good. so i looked in my paper stash and found this beautiful sheet of mi-tientes from my foundation drawing year, and got to work on my little design. about an hour later i was finished cutting and arranged them in a cute little stack!

i think i'm by no means knowledgeable about layouts and probably committed a multitude of graphic design sins, but i'm pretty proud of what i managed to do. if nothing else it will at least help make sure my little handmade things last as long as possible in their new owners' hands.

have any great ideas come to you at random lately? what have you done about them?

on the needles

tonight i'm working on a sort-of but not-really stashbusting project, a ravenclaw cowl for my shop.
i wouldn't call it stashbusting if the yarn's already tied to a project, but the feeling of seeing one less skein in the basket is the same. it's a little project for me to take the yarn i've purchased for my harry potter cowls and knit them all up--both for the joy of emptying the basket and to offer them as a ready-to-ship item for the holidays.
the hope is that having them available to them as soon as i possibly can will help make shopping with me more enjoyable!

wordless wednesday viii

mauve cafe

i'm really beginning to enjoy putting together little treasuries. there is so much impressive photography on etsy, it's hard not to want to make little mood boards with them! here's one i made recently--i just might do a little treasury feature every week, haha. [as always, you can click through to see my treasury and the beautiful products featured.