A package from the lovely Lisa. She gets to pick out one my soft birds. (whenever she chooses!) Trixie was most interested in the green gum. They are sooo easy to swat around the room. (plus the gum inside rattles around!) This lovely little bunny now lives on the Boy's desk. I figured he could use a little mail love from the amazing Alicia. I have tons of other packages that I have been ordering around the world. I love everything and will post over the next few weeks.
Also if you haven't seen Johanna's new quilt series, go look.  I think my favorite is 'goodbye to brooklyn' and they are on sale in Brooklyn at the Flying Saucer.  I am going to stop by this weekend and see them in person. 
We used to work together, so I got to see all the pieces that she was working on, now I have to wait like everyone else until it is on the web.

Olive is really unsure about living in the city. She tried to find a high roost in the studio. But it is just not the same as living with Alicia. I hope once I get her home she’ll start to relax and enjoy the change of living in the city.

And sorry to all you whip up people coming to see my robots. I have quite a few in different states of creation! You can see finished pieces here and here.

I have been ordering amazing ness around the internet lately and I got some packages last week. Firstly I ordered an amazing mod bird from lisa. Oh so lovely. It is smaller than I pictured in my mind and that makes it that much more enchanting and amazing.

The Boy is getting jealous, but actually I got something for him. This gorgeous casting of a headstone from magpie molly. He has a thing for skulls that I am just coming around to honoring. Before it freaked my out a bit, now they intrigue me.

After some mail angst I received my trade with Amanda and snatched up a pair of those fantastic earrings she was knitting with wire. They are like wearing air - soft air. I am not quite sure if I am supposed to post a photo, which is good since my photo is crazy blurry.
Instead I have this photo of Trixie claiming the tissue paper. She is in love with it. Any chance she gets she’ll roll around on the paper - demanding rubs on the paper, all around relaxing on the paper. She is particular that one.

I finished my painting for friday yesterday and I wanted to post it because I am pretty happy with it. I am doing a more graphic version and submiting it to threadless. (I can win prizes and everything - more on that later)

I have been ordering amazing little things from around the internet:

these amazing felted acorns from jenn (her new site is up and running!)

and this sweet and tiny little charm from another jenny

this is making its way as a birthday present, and I have already ordered another piece!

Oh and my little blog is one years old today.

I totally didn’t plan on writing about tuesdays on Tuesday.
Serendipity I guess.

I have been exploring some options for tuesdays - found myself a couple of guinea pigs and thinking of taking it in a different way…more on that later, but for now just a tease of a photo.

(this was an accidental collaboration with Johanna - she left some partial canvas behind and I painted this lady over it.)

The paintings for friday are back.
I know that you have missed them terribly.
I took some time off for the holidays, not like Lisa who has been amazing at getting her drawing-a-day’s done. They are so lovely if you haven’t seen them yet. After I took time off, I changed positions at work, got slammed with Fashion Week and tried to sew my little hands out for the Love4Sale event last weekend.
Which couldn’t have been a better introduction to fairs. The women that surrounded me where amazing.

Across from me was Jane (one of my trade friends) and Karla of Slope Suds. Delicious products. Really tasty items.
On my right was two wonderful ladies - Alice & Kristin- with jewelry (only Kristin has a website that is up).
On my left was the lovely Kristen Aronsson.
Her shoes.
Amazing.
Plus she had these amazing bags that felt like butter.
And the equally lovely Angie with her simple and bold jewelry, whom I traded with but she doesn’t have a website. (hopefully yet)

I was lucky enough to make a couple of trades.
I LOVE trades.
I am able to get things for myself that I would normally never buy.
I would love, but not ever allow myself to buy.
Firstly I got an amazing skirt from Kathy the brains behind the event. Her son picked out one of the inside out penguins and I got this lovely skirt.

People started showing up late in the afternoon and the wonderfuly talented Aurora put me into the black. What a truely amazing and talented countess.
Then as the sale winded down (it never really winded up - threat of a blizzard can do that).
The trades started to fly. And I snapped up two more.
First was with the hilarious Jane of Foxy & Winston. She got one of the sad-eyed little penguins (she named him Percival) and I got some great notecards. Lovely lovely.

Then I traded with Angie a beautiful coral necklace from her new line.

Oh goodness. She doesn’t have a website but I think she’ll be at Renegade in Brooklyn this year. Angie brought home Gordon & Sid (see the previous post).

I have quite a few left and wondered if people were interested in buying them. I’ll put up photos up soon. Send me an email if you’d like to be notified when that happens. wendyATgreengirlartDOTcom.
Have a great weekend.

This card is even more perfect since last night WAS a night of cheers. Drinking and laughing. Drinks traveling around the table, tasting, ohhing, and ahhing over delicious martinis that didn't taste at all like they had any alcohol, which was a bad thing this morning. Last night it was just delicious. Cake-tails & pie-tinis. Drinks with alcohol that taste like cake and pie?! Delicious and dangerous.

It was a fun mail time for me. I ordered some of abby normal’s new designs. I love Lisa’s stuff.
I bought a bag, I love how her bags have lining (you can kind of see the gingham coming through the bag in the photo).
I bought a t-shirt and some of her holiday cards. Love those and the work that went into making them is crazy!!
She is a mighty talented lady and because she is my friend I got a couple of prizes! Some gum that smells so delicious I almost can’t stand it. A couple of her pins - I am an evildoer!!

Lisa has great little details, like a cloud cut out on her business card and the envelope of her note card.
Sweet and lovely.
Thank you thank you!!

I love her beautiful personal note cards made by mav! If you look close you can see the green lisa shinning through.
Can’t wait to get some of my own.
Love the ribbon that my little package was wrapped in. Green of course.

I did a trade with the talented Tiffany. I made her Harvey and she made me a beautiful winter hat.

Look how perfect the hat matches the painting behind me. I couldn’t have gotten better colors if I picked them myself!! She also went to a Japanese dollar store before she mailed off my package, so I got a million great treats. Well not a million, but such perfect things. An new journal (I am three pages away from finishing my current one), and a brush pen (love brush pens). Eyes for robots (I already have plans for a pair) a cute little key chain and candy. That is gone. LOve anything chocolate and chocolate with maple syrup, heaven. And some pretty origami paper. She didn’t forget Trixie who got fun springs that she wanted to get into right away. Look at her. It is like she knows they are for her!

I have some big news. The Boy finally got this big gig that was supposed to happen ages ago. He did the sound design on a video game trailer months ago (in time for some fancy conference) and there was talk at the time they’d get hired to do the full game. Then the talk got more plausible. Then the talk turned into dates. The original date was at the beginning of October. Then near the end of October. Then the beginning of November. Then the end of November and just when I thought that would go on for ages - wham it happened. On Thanksgiving. So much to be thankful for (except that little part where he had to work on thanksgiving - those brits are still a little angry about the tea party?) No really the company creating the game is in England. Good thing I can make a mean mashed potatoes. We had a really delicious time, because the Boy is a fabulous cook. We did the happy dance and busted out the champagne (after he was done for the day because drinking changes your ability to hear correctly).

I did a bookswap hosted by Cara. My partner was the amazingly big hearted Alisha. I am lucky to have met these two lovely ladies through the internet. They are fabulous women.

Our assignment was kids books and I got some Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Which is wonderful and surprising since I never read any of the books or even heard of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. I can’t wait to tuck into the books since I got three!! So exciting.
In my box I also got some moonpies that are already open and Creole seasoning in a h u g e shaker. The Boy’s eyes almost popped out. He loves any sort of ‘themed’ seasoning. Thank you thank you!!

Ok so this wasn’t on my list, but Johanna reminded me that eating sugary stuff in the city can be equally inspiring.
I had a delicious chocolate frozen custard!
I didn’t even know about frozen custard. It is a creamy and smooth. A much much better version of frozen yogurt. Actually frozen yogurt has NOTHING on frozen custard.
I got it from this new little place called the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, right near work and my train station. Very Dangerous!

Inspired by my constant drooling over him for a couple of months now and finding her the other night from creature comforts, she has super cute felt tea bags. I started sculpting little heads. But I think I am going to start again with more of a story. I have a bunch of sad little stories in my head. I really love Monica’s bittersweet story of Luna and the Stellar Cat!