A Quote

Miranda July is my favorite contemporary artist.


Here is a quote from her website Learning To Love You More that I keep in my Inbox and read every once in a while to feel inspired.


"The best art and writing is almost like an assignment; it is so vibrant that you feel compelled to make something in response. Suddenly it is clear what you have to do. For a brief moment it seems wonderfully easy to live and love and create breathtaking things. In a sense, these are assignments -- in the same way that the ocean gives the assignment of breathing deeply, and kissing instructs us to stop thinking."

Bazaar of the Bizarre

BAZAAR OF THE BIZARRE! I love the name - but I always type Bizarre of the Bazaar by accident. Hahaha.


Come check me out at this awesome show this Sunday in Toronto. I'll have 20 or so large monster pouches, 10-15 small ones, and pinback buttons!


http://www.thebazaarofthebizarre.org/

Monster Pouch Giveaway and More!

Hey everyone! This awesome blog, The Dress-up Drawer, is having a great giveaway! Followers of the blog suggested shops they would love to win stuff at and I was contacted. So, a nice large orange monster pouch will be up for winning soon. Check out the link for now and... good luck!

Vote for Zomb!

Hi folks! True, it's been a while since I've posted. I'll get better, I swear!

Anyway, Zomb has been nominated and is in this nifty crafter competition called The Poppies! Please take one second out of your day and come here to vote! I'm the second last one on the list (Zomb). Voting is up for another 6 days but I have some catching up to do. ;)

www.monsterpouch.com

For a while I've been thinking about taking www.monsterpouch.com because the domain name was available. I didn't want to spend too much money on getting the domain name and getting someone to host it, but I came across justhost.com. After I "almost" checked out I decided, forget it, I'll wait. But then they sent me an email saying, "hey! you almost checked out but didn't so we're giving you 50% off!" Well, not in those exact words but something along those lines. So yay! There's really not much on the website (for now) but I'm hoping it gets some search engine hits and diverts traffic to the Etsy store. I'll probably develop it more extensively later on when I get the time. Take a look!

Vogue Ninos Espana

There really are no words to explain my excitement. Monster pouches are featured in the fall/winter Vogue Ninos Espana (Vogue Kids in Spain). No words. Come check out the scans.

Busy Bee

Hi everyone! That's right, I've been a busy bee - summer has been more hectic than the school year! Recently I've been sewing a lot of custom monster pencil cases and keeping them in stock has been difficult. But, Wendell is still looking for a home (and she wants you to know that she's pretty awesome). The cool thing is that I bought over a hundred GORGEOUS zippers in every color imaginable so making these monsters has been more fun than ever before.

Summer is also coming to an end (boooo!) and I think I'm done with craft shows for the summer season. Here I am at P.S. Kensington in Toronto, which was my last show that took place in a huge thunderstorm:

Thank goodness it cleared up a bit in the afternoon! And no, that tent is NOT sturdy! I'm looking at some shows in October and December, but I have to make sure my school schedule doesn't clash.

Random tidbit: my 2009 year-end goal is to hit 400 sales. Right now I'm at 328 so maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but I am hoping the holiday season kicks sales into high gear!