The Handmade Shopping Guide

The Flannel Monsters have just been featured on The Handmade Shopping Guide!
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Rain?!

Pray for a break so I can take some pictures!  I'm dying to get picks up of my two newest creations.  They are one of a kinds and so ridiculously awesome!  I'm thinking about setting up an Etsy store for my funky OOAKs (that's craft for one of a kind. . . oh my does that make me feel like a geek).  I may just save them for the craft fairs and markets I'm planning on doing this season.  And I will definitely be entering them in the county fair (yup, break out the overalls and straw hats).  They have categories for ever handmade craft imaginable and before you ask, yes. . . there is an inmate envelope art category. . . seriously, there is.

Waiting for the sun

I really can't wait for the days to start getting longer.  I need those extra hours of sunlight!  For some reason I just can't seem to get any photos done and the queue is five monsters and counting.  It may have something to do with the fact that by the time I get a moment to think about what needs to get done I'm in bed and half asleep.  I have the set up figured out and it's relatively simple.  White sheet + sunlight = pretty photos.  It would be way easier if I could leave everything set up but white surfaces don't last long around here.  One close pass from the eternally sticky fingers of a three year old and it's shot.  Sticky little fingers are exactly why all of the monsters are immediately packed in plastic and boxed up in the closet.  I can't leave them within reach of the boys for even a second or they instantly and permanently become our property.  I'm going to be optimistic here and put photos on tomorrow's agenda. . . again.

Spex

I managed to sneak in a few solid hours of sewing over the weekend and here's the first of my completed new flannel friends.  He's the first bespectacled monster I've made but definitely not the last.  I'm a contacts wearer these days but I put on my first tiny purple plastic pair of glasses at three.  I think they make him look distinguished.  Wouldn't you agree?

Try Handmade

Check out Rolli in the try handmade gallery!  http://gallery.tryhandmade.com/rolli-3/

Monster Photo Shoot

I now have new and improved photos of all of the monsters for their facebook page and the website!  The website had a mini makeover so stop by and check it out.  Here are the two newest additions to the store.

HUCK

ROLLI