The Lighthouse Keeper's cat

This year Kristen Rask from Schmancy, Seattle is organising 2 Plush You! shows. One will be at her Gallery Schmancy and the second one will be at Double Punch Gallery in San Francisco! Every participant will take part in both shows with 3 plushs each. More info about how th apply for Plush You 2008 on the Plush You blog

Erm, actually I worked up the courage to do apply myself… I sent images of Schlaf, Teti Longlegs and some Needleart. So keep your fingers crossed for me ^_^…
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It is done ^_^… The 6th edition of design a calendar is out! Feel free to preview, download and print. This year’s topic is time stretch. The 5 organiser went to find 52 participants and gathered 52 designs. I sent out invitations to some of my flickr contacts and the response was just great!

So many thanks to “my” group of participants:

Yara Kono . Lisbon. Portugal
Chez Meb . Montréal, Canada
hannah sheffield . hertford, uk
Maicen . Mjondalen. Norway
Tanja Israel. Zillertal. Austria
Sara Harvey . Kansas City, United States
Hans Kraeling aachen, germany
Sasha Solovjova, Vilnius, Lithuania

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I felt a little blue the last weeks seeing that I can’t really spent too much time on being crafty. So I went online shopping. I bought 3 sewing books to brighten my day… I really love all three of them, and I can’t wait to try some of the projects inside – maybe over Christmas when everything slows a little bit down…
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I know these painting from somewhere, but I can’t remember where I have seen them before… anyway I found them again at etsy ^_^ and I love this one.
The 33 year old artist from Birmingham loves modern design and is inspired by anything Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, George Nelson and Irving Harper.

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I was browsing through my RSS reader and I found a very good article about blogging at Keri Smith’ blogg the Wish Jar November 15, 2007 “warning: rant on blogging, read at your own risk”. It is covering some inconvenient truth about blogging. Anyway ^_^… I found the “I took the handmade pledge” banner on her blogg and I love the idea so….

I took the handmade pledge and I request that other do the same for me ^_^…
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I had a terrible day today. Browsing around this evening I found this. This is exactly how I feel ^_^… There is lots of nice stuff from illustrator Michael Fleming aka tweedlebop on his website at flickr and at etsy… Enjoy!

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Again @flickr ^_^… Love on first sight. Verónica is a graphic designer, works for a newspaper and she creates lovely drawings, dolls and bags. You can admire her works visiting her flickr set.
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