I started on Etsy by listing all my Little Bitsys designs from 2005-2006 and now that I've begun creating again, I am taking some time to come up with new designs which often means MISTAKES which cannot be sold but which are important I believe.
I did some chocolate brown tie-dye last week, some adult t-shirts and a couple of toddler dresses. My intent to add brown pompoms to the dresses failed when the chocolate brown dye didn't match the chocolate brown pompons SO back to the drawing board. I'm working on a new idea where I make "flowers" out of contrasting or coordinating vintage fabric to decorate the hem or neckline. These are really fun to do but I haven't come up with a design I like well enough to finish anything AND I have to incorporate something I have painted or printed as well.
Speaking of... my patches that I sew onto the clothes began as miniature paintings, all hand painted by moi. It was later that I came up with the idea of mass producing them by making my own block prints. Now I'm getting back to hand painting which is what I love to do, having studied art and painting when I was (ahem) younger. (BTW, I was carded last Saturday at a Lone Star Steakhouse, WOOHOO, I am 47!! My husband, who is 36, was not, hahaha)
OK, sorry for that diversion but in case anyone logged on here and wanted to see something fresh, I needed to explain why there is nothing fresh. This weekend I will take some photos of works in progress just so the blog is fresh. OH and I have a family trip next week so I'll be out of pocket for those days too.
And just so I can post a photo, I will leave you with my STORY OF THE WEEK
I have a fish pond with goldfish and koi. I inherited this from the previous homeowner and it is a constant source of pleasure and pain as I try to upkeep this watery ecosystem in my yard. I learned things like, those overgrown plants that seemed to be choking the pond were actually cleaning the water! Koi can get REALLY big and outgrow the pond. It is this last lesson that is the story here.
Mr. Big Koi has been with me since he was a wee 3-4 incher that I bought from a nursery and put in the pond about 5 years ago after a heron ate the other fish (pond is now protected from heron). In the past 2 years I have realized Mr. Big Koi really needed a new pond but I didn't know how to find one. This week on CraigsList I saw someone who was looking to stock a big pond with koi so I wrote him and he came out with his wife, large plastic bag and huge net and we spent TWO HOURS trying to catch Mr. Big Koi. I tried to tell him (maybe he couldn't understand through the water?) that catching him was going to be the beginning of the best days of his life. He would no longer live in a small city pond but would be able to live out his days in a large, deep multiple pond in the rural suburbs, with a waterfall and stream even!
Anyway, when this guy finally netted Mr. Big, he was bigger than I thought! I don't have a photo, darn, but I do have a photo of him 2 years ago when he was actually much smaller. He is the all yellow one in the picture below. I think he doubled since this photo. I sort of miss him but the new owner emailed me that he was happily swimming with the other fish in his new digs and would send a photo later and let me know what his kids named him (or her).
In exchange for Mr. Big, I received two bottles of red wine, sweet! And they did not ask if I was old enough to drink it, HA. So here are the fish and the pond.
And while I was rooting around through my photos, I found this one. I actually had some free time in the early summer where I did some painting out back in our new little Tiki Room:
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