Holidays with Heart

Holidays with Heart

Saturday, Dec. 1 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Animal Friends562 Camp Horne Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237Find the perfect gift this holiday season at Holidays with Heart. Our campus will transform into a fun marketplace packed with the most unique and talented local crafters and vendors and plenty of giveaways, raffles, fun and adoptable animals. With a wide variety of items including pottery, jewelry and photography – just to name a few – you will surely find something for everyone on your holiday shopping list while supporting Animal Friends and local crafters.


COME BY AND SEE ME!


Yep.  I'll be there!  I still can't believe I'm doing my first craft show at the place that I adopted my little fur babies and then named my shop after them!  It feels so right!

I am crafting like crazy lately to get ready for the show and to be honest I feel like everything else is falling apart and there are so many things that need to get done- I'm about to go nuts.  Flickr...the site that I have shared photos on for years and years is doing a huge change to free accounts - I pay for my account but I have another account that I save my personal photos on and they not only upped the charge for the 2 year plan but they are offering a discount to people to stay but not to me since I have been a member for so long.  Then on top of that they charged my card that was labeled "expired" (the date was expired) without me giving the okay!  I reached out to them about it and they wrote back and told me to "make the most educated decision possible about staying with Flickr" and that they wouldn't refund me or give me the deal they are offering. 

I'm seeing red right about now.  So I will live out the two years on my art account that I have now paid for, not by choice and then move all my other photos on my free account out.  Once the time has gone by - I am leaving the site that I once loved so much.  I have until January to move my free account photos.  I get so upset because I take time to organized and back up my photos online like a responsible person and then they rip the carpet out from under me while I am trying to get ready for the Holidays and my craft show... ugh.  Okay- rant over- moving on.

Lol.

So I have been doodling a lot on my iPad.  I love it.  I truly love it.  Here are some of my latest pieces of work:

 

I'm going to do a whole series and I will be selling some at the show!

I have also been working on a planner/activity book.  It's taking way longer than expected and I just finally found a printer willing to work with me and is in my price range that does really nice quality work.  I have to make a few more edits to do after they kindly made a sample for me and I then I will get them printed (hopefully in time for the show) and then put them on my Etsy shop too!

I cannot wait until 2019 though.  I decided yesterday to meditate and do a short spell to banish negative energies.  I am trying to finish out this year with as little bad news as possible.  This year has been one of the hardest years of my life.  I can't wait to count down to the new year- it will be a serious celebration for me! 

In the meantime, my husband and I are trying to stay focused on getting outdoors as much as possible before it gets too cold and too dark to do it.  We took a nice long walk around Heartwood Acres the other day and it was just the right temperature and the sky was SO BLUE!

 

(this house was so cool- looks like a vampire lives there!)

 

 

I also treated myself to get my hair done.  I am going lighter and towards blonde again and it feels so good and it feels like me! :)

 

 

So - onward! 

Come visit me at the show on December 1st:) Come see my things that I make!

 

Thanks for reading!

The Fall Season

This year has been a hard year.  I feel like every bend I turn ends up with some more bad news about something.  They aren't small life things either- they are life changing, stressful things...

It's amazing what happens in these times of darkness.  The feelings, the people, the situations... it's all very eye opening.  I won't get into detail about what is actually go on for now but I will say that Music and Art have always been the way that I vent. 

So on that note I have been listening to a lot of Radiohead, At the Drive In, Eden, Crywolf and, of course, Twenty One Pilots.

I have been working on Etsy store and posting a lot of new creations.  I am excited because since I have gotten the iPad, I have been creating many prints on it. 
I have found that these drawings reflect on how I am really feeling.  Check out a few below:

So. ya. you can kind of tell how I have been feeling lately. 

 So on another note, there have been some really wonderful times as well:

I got to play in a whole pile of puppies at my friends house.  She has the absolute cutest doggies (except for mine of course...sorry Julie :) )

It's fall- my favorite time of the year...

I still have Chance... my love.  Thankfully things have been going pretty good with his health.  He was one of the main concerns this year... He has had some pretty horrible stomach issues that I thought were going to take him from me too soon.  I think we are on a good path right now... I hope it stays that way. 

I dressed up as a Twenty One Pilot Bandito. I just love the band so much so this year I didn't really do my costume for anyone else but myself.  I kind of felt a little guilty for not going all out like I always do... but I enjoyed the costume so very much so that's what matters!

Also, if you read up about the new album, Trench, and the album Blurryface... you will see that there is a really cool story line behind it... :) Hence the costume... it all goes along with the story :) 

I switched it up for the trick or treaters though- stuck my vampire teeth in and retrieved my handy cape (we had 9 this year- that's more than the last two years!)

I love the fall colors, the leaves, the crisp air.

I got together with my friend Amy and met some of her friends.  She held a craft-ernoon at her house and it was an absolute blast!  She had everything so beautifully set up and organized and we had so much fun!  It truly was a bright spot in my poop year. 

(one of our crafts)

I also got to hang out with my dear friends Nikki and Matt.  We pulled our spirit animal cards and had some drinks as we played games- that is another bright spot- friends can be such a cure for the lost soul.

I hope to get some of those prints up in the shop pretty soon and make some more things before the holiday season.  I am also working on a planner to release on the shop. So hopefully that will be done rather soon as well! 

I will keep updates coming on the blog as best as I can and I hope you all are excited for the upcoming holidays :) Thanks for reading!