I used to love to paint. I am super rusty now. I bought some acrylic paints and did some experimenting when Ebin was a baby and realized I needed some far larger blocks of time to be able to really get into it again. Those blocks of time don't happen when you have a baby, and aren't happening now either! But I wanted to make a banner for my Etsy store so I thought I might try to paint something.
The best part was that the kids got into this little project with me!
I've been making some Blythe clothes and I have two quilts to sell. I ordered sewing labels for the quilts but they're really too big for the Blythe clothes. Someday maybe I'll order a smaller version. The labels have a little hedgehog and say Goody Gumdrop. I was thinking my banner should be a scene of forest-y things so I did some sketching of hedgehogs and the like. (Ok here is the very funny part. I should have actually *looked* at Etsy to scope out the banner size before launching into this project. I was thinking 'oh...picture at the top.' Ahem.)
So we sketched some words and some hedgehogs. Isaac's hedgehog's are way cuter than mine! Then I pulled out my watercolors from COLLEGE and they were still great. I haven't touched them in at least 12 years or more. Ebin painted with me.
So it turns out the Etsy banner is a very long and skinny 100 x 750 pixel graphic. Whoops! Which is ok because the only part of the painting that I like is the hedgie. I wish there was a way to crop him out and show him completely but you can see what I came up with here:
http://www.goodygumdrop.etsy.com/
Or maybe I should use one of Isaac's hedgehogs - they are great!!
I'm hoping to get my stuff listed in August. We are going camping this weekend and then leaving next Thursday for a 10 day road trip to California. When we get back I'll be able to take pictures and add my listings! I can't wait.
Also - on an unrelated note - Angry Chicken posted that her mom (Grammie) has started a quilting service with her long-arm quilting machine called Tillie Studio. I have Isaac's quilt top all folded up and waiting, with a plan to have someone else do the quilting. Now I know who! (And they live in Portland, so how convenient.)
