it's stocking day at http://hyenacart.com/LilyPadLanding/ this afternoon at 3pm. i squeaked out a few skeins of yarn... one inspired by wine (i had a glass while dyeing after all) and one by fiery fall colors. my camera is not picking up the variety of tone in the second one but this is the best shot i got of the 100 i must have taken on every background imaginable. sometimes you just have to see it in person. *sigh*
anyway, enjoy some pictures! first up is "A Little Wine" on licorice twist, then "Fall For Me" on merino/nylon fingering, and finally a grid of many of the lovely items we have stocking or already instock at lily pad landing.
my next stocking is coming up on tuesday at fresh. our theme is elation. inspiration struck a little late for me on this one, but things are in the works. watch for a possible newborn remix, a new design, and some others in sizes and colors people might have been looking for.
no pictures to share yet but i'll try to get some up tomorrow. maybe. if i'm not too busy scrambling to get listings done still.
on the horizon is a lily pad landing stocking on thursday and continuing work on the yarn lovers unite order. busy times, especially since i need to pack all my dyes and pots away for the weekend for hosting the kiddos' joint family birthday party with 20-some people on sunday. my kitchen is going to look naked without dye jars, bins and pots on every flat surface. the zen will only last a few days before it all gets pulled back out and looks all cluttered in here again.
also watch for a charity listing for a YPS/color Heartfeet tee on the Family Pendragon cart on HC, and a few things might pop up at etsy in the next few weeks. Plus I have a set up nice fall napkins offered as part of a giveaway (pictured above) that will be on the Etsy HC Street Team blog within the next few days, as well as a few things planned for K and F Shops' anniversary stocking later this month. :)
it's stocking day at Lily Pad Landing and i have several tees, a few sets of cloth napkins, and several colorways up for grabs. the other vendors outdid themselves with many gorgeous offerings as well. just take a look at some of what we have stocking... it all goes live at 3pm eastern. enjoy!
once again i haven't updated and have missed several stockings. just had a few collabs sell today with wild child woolies. angela rocks. go to http://hyenacart.com/WildChildWoolies/ to check out the other things instock. if i had a wee one still i'd be all about these two listings in particular... love love love!
and later today i have 4 shirts stocking at comfort wool's knit night! 9pm eastern... be there! http://hyenacart.com/ComfortWool/
and then finally i will have 2 things stocking on may 1st at http://hyenacart.com/TadpolesNButterflies/ for their 8 year anniversary (wow!). No pics yet... still wrapping things up but I will say that one is a super collab with Brooke of Family Tree Glass and the other will involve trees as well, bringing back a design I did a few years back and always wanted to offer again.
in other news, customs have come to an unintentional standstill again as i'm juggling stockings and a few group orders i was crazy enough to overlap several weeks. if i make it through the next few months without my head exploding or the house from all the mess i leave in my wake, i'll be very thankful! and i'm always thankful for my customers and those writing in about possible customs (which i'm sorry to say i can not take any more on at this point but people are always free to hint at certain designs, sizes of colors they'd love to see stocked at some point). ;) everything is keeping me hopping!
figured that might get your attention. ;)
i have a cute wee heartfeet knot cap as part of an awesome baby giveaway on the etsy HC street team blog. follow the instructions there how to enter for a chance to win our april promotional package!
fresh is stocking tomorrow with the theme POCKET. take a look! stocking 9am and 9pm eastern tomorrow!
Alchemy is stocked up with some lovely items right now. These are the ones still available as of this morning:
And I finally got a few things loaded up on etsy as well:
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Go forth and shop on this lovely Friday! :)
it's time to revive this blog. hopefully. big, exciting stuff happening this year and once i get into a good groove, i think it will all be tons of fun. while i'm still finding that groove, well... i'm feeling a little bit crazed. i'm working on it.
tomorrow i will be submitting an application to be a vendor at my first show. and what an awesome show it is! midwest fiber and folk was held the last 3 years just one town away from me and i've gone each time to lose myself in fibery goodness as a customer or student. this year it is being held a bit further away in grayslake, illinois -- but still within easy driving distance. cross your fingers for me i get in. if i do, i'll be sharing a booth with the amazing jen of starving artist bazaar. we've been friends since college and it's so neat that we share a love for making and selling handmade goodies over a decade later. oh heck 15 years now? i shouldn't have actually done the math.
also coming up this week will be a stocking at alchemy. we're doing a cool "spring cleaning and greening" theme -- which means there will not only be some new green goods there, but some deals on some things certain vendors have sitting around waiting for the perfect home to go to! i should have at least one HC$ auction, some discounted prices, and a few new, regular-priced items as well.
and finally, i am going to finally revive my etsy shop! it's been sorely neglected for too long and i have several things waiting to go up there hopefully later this week. keep an eye out for those!
this is the spread from the past week or so of very late nights getting ready for the ALCHEMY grand opening today. i'm thrilled with how almost everything came out. a few things sold and there's still tons available, not to mention some really awesome stuff from the other ladies stocking at Alchemy!
i also have some yarn going on sale tomorrow at Baby Bean Design's big fiber fest on her HC. more lovely goodies from tons of great fiber and other artisans! be sure to stop by there too for lots of temptation!
yep that's right, i actually put a few things on etsy! so a few of them were already on hc, but not all of 'em. wacky to go for a whole month without other hc stockings to worry about, i actually had a little time to do some extras. check it out @ alfabette zoope on etsy!
i've been pitifully horrible about updating my blog! but that's good right, means i've been busy? yeah i'll say that's why. actually it has been the germiest yuckiest winter i can remember ever, and one cold or virus sort of has blurred into the next for far too many weeks (thanks no doubt to my 3yo walking petri dish bringing home lots of stuff from preschool).
but... things have been getting done, slowly but surely. customs are moving along steadily (albeit slowly) and i have been keeping up with stocking 1-2x a month. even more instock coming up, with some guest stockings in april and may at various really cool shops. plus, ALCHEMY is opening in mid-to-late may, exact date to be announced. this is a new congo i am really excited to be part of, made up of several congos that are combining efforts plus a few other select vendors! the range of talent, skills, experience and rockin' products in this group is amazing. so watch for news about that coming up several weeks from now!
here's some pretty pictures of some of the recent things i've stocked, and watch for more coming very soon to http://hyenacart.com/fresh for our HUMOR stocking on april 9th, 9am and 9pm eastern!
the scene under my light tent the other night --
yes it kind of looks like a farm around here with all the creature shirts i'm working on or recently finished! lol. i just found it funny (and a wee bit creepy at one in the morning) when i looked over and saw all those shirts staring back.
here's some less creepy stuff... a few customs that are in-progress of have just been wrapped up...
my next stocking is tomorrow, actually -- a guest slot for the grand opening of shadow's rockin' store on hyenacart, felt fusion! i join a bunch of other cool guests plus of course shadow's beautiful felted goodies. it's going to be a great stocking, check it out at 3pm eastern. hyenacart.com/feltfusion
and then we have our next stocking at fresh on march 9th at 9am and 9pm as usual. the theme this time is GROWTH and i'll have a bunch of springy and other shirts and yarns, maybe even a set or two, plus an awesome collab with diane of bugsnugger! more info and maybe sneak peeks coming soon...
about updating my blog! a few more stockings have passed since i last managed to get over here and post. i've been doing a lot of instock and some customs... things are moving, but slowly. winter illnesses are kicking my butt this year -- millie brings them home from preschool and i seem to pick up every other one from her, probably because i never get enough sleep.
anyway, i'll just show off some pretties that are still instock either at the leaf shoppe or fresh. enjoy!
beautiful collab with steph at aliah's creations, instock at the leaf shoppe
little stinker tees, still instock at fresh
what started as yarn i dyed, destined for longies for my daughter...
became gorgeous capris (turns out there wasn't enough yarn for longies, oops) worked up by joline at hibiscus baby...
that were worn by my girliegirl, millie...
then she potty-learned.
and then inspiration struck and they became part of a sweet little remix set that sold recently at http://hyenacart.com/fresh/...
and who knows, maybe i'll be able to add a customer photo someday too. and hopefully the capris will be loved as much as they were here, and turned over to the next little girl to love on them, and then the next...
in other news, i'm excited about being one of plumknit's featured indie dyers, with four of my colorways on oh-so-yummy cashmere and cashmere blends stocking this coming tuesday. previews should be up in the next few days at http://hyenacart.com/plumknityarnsupply/index.php?c=63 but till then, here's a peek at the goods. :)
