Soap as an ART

Ok, after ordering from NVSOAP I was completely inspired to photograph her beautiful soap! :) I never knew that soap could be so gorgeous. This picture (one of many) will be gracing my bathroom walls! They turned out totally awesome. But dont be jealous of mine, buy your own. :)You will NOT be dissapointed, her soap is the best I have found yet...

:drumroll: and the winners are....!

Dragonfly Gems and janetlyn! :) Congrats, my husband pulled your names out of the coffee mug! There were 18 other people who responded to my request in the forums, regarding the perfect earring tag. http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5072581 I have been hit with quite a few custom orders this week, so work on the earring tags will have to be delayed until later next week. Be sure and check back to see what I can create with the help of these lovely, talented ladies. :) I will be sure and post pictures of what we come up with!

-sparks

homepage this morning...

I made it to the homepage again today! yyyeeaaahhh! :) One of my favorites pictures too...Also label me clothing has featured me in her blog. Stop by and take a look, she has one of the most put together pink blogs ever! Thank you. :) http://labelmeclothing.blogspot.com/ when your done, stop by her store htt:p//LabelMeClothing.etsy.com

Have a great day!!

Easter and mintd

The girls had a blast yesterday hunting for easter eggs. It was a little breezy, but all in al a fairly nice day! No rain, till late that night!! wheeeew :)

........................................Also, I have openened up shop at the completely fresh new mintd. Be sure and stop by, they have a totally awesome place. My store name is SparksFly http://www.mintd.com/stores/show/151-SparksFly

stop by my ever growing store.... :)

busy, busy!

I have been staying pretty busy with a few custom orders, and trying to squeeze in some new projects at the same time. I have been having a lot of fun making my matchbox books. I have now completed a "Weathered Collection," and also a "Botanical Collection." I bought more supplies yesterday, and have HUGE plans for these recycled boxes! :)

I also finished my 4x4 photo palm book! Its listed and ready for viewing. :) well, off to fix breakfast!

-jess

Short walk to the post office...

Today is absolutely beautiful out! I was having a bery stressful day trying to get a few orders out. I had a slight headache, and was having printer problems... making mistakes left and right. Wasting expensive photo paper, always makes me sick. So, I decided to a walk to the post office would do Trin and I both some good. I got my orders done, and we walked the VERY short walk to the post office. It is just so nice outside! It makes me want to work in the garden and my tan at the same time. :) Now if I can just get Jaydon to rototill an area for my new garden... Well, I am off to bake some cookies!

stealing my walnuts!

Ok, so I have seen this little guy... or one that resembles him to a "T" stealing the walnuts (I hadndpicked last fall) out of our bucket sitting so conveniently underneath this tree. Now keep in mind we were "blessed" with three enormous black wanut trees in our front yard. I would love to cut them down. They make the biggest mess imaganeable this last fall. The walnuts swell, and rot which then sticks to your shoes...and wind up in our brand new living room carpet. Unless of course I am extra careful and stop everyone the moment they walk into our home! The city wont allows us to cut the trees down. I hear there is some sort of a shot you can give the trees to keep them from producing?

This little squirrel has stolen from me before. I suppose since I hate walnuts, I kinda hope he keeps taking them. :) Less I have to crack...

Customized Bookmarks

My customized bookmarks have really been taking off on etsy! I have been so thrilled to work with each person. It is so enjoyable to me to be able to use all the talented Artists' work, and turn it into a bookmark. :) One thing I am growing to love about custom work, is getting to know the other etsy sellers on a little more personal note. Rather then accept they're money and send out an item...I then get to work with them, and talk with them. Etsy people are some of the nicest most willing ppl to help out! :)

I keep my bookmarks affordable, use them in place of a business card. They are so much cuter, and even more uesful!

Spring days ahead!

It was soo nice out yesterday! The weather was perfect, Heather brought Jada over. She wore cute little hawaiian print shorts for the first time this year, they were adorable! She kept walking all over the house with different toys on her head. We have been noticing the past few days that she has been doing this alot lately. She has gotten so good at it...she can bend over to pick something up and not have the toy fall. Thats talent, and a lot of cordination for one lil toddler.

We were joking about it, saying that she will be on some talk show years down the road... confessing to having a hat addiction...and blaming the whole thing on her mother. "She had a store on etsy...and she constatly used me for modeling her new hats, now years later I have squandered my life savings away on hats!" Well, surely its a phase she will outgrow. But its just too cute to not warrant documenting it...

4x4ing

This weekend we spent our saturday up near Bickelton, WA in the mud and snow. It really was perfect weather. The sun came out while we were up, and there was still snow for us to play in. Mom and Dad, Jono and Heather, and Jaydon and I, all went.

Jaydon ended up snapping a rear driveline... Which meant dad got to try out his new warn winch... and also meant we were stuck up there waiting for dad and Jaydon to temporarily make it driveable. Roman and Jono passed the time and made a snow fort, but got it done just as we were ready to pull out. :)

We fortunately managed to get away with not using 4WD on the way home. Altho his gearing was making a really bad noise in 3rd gear. Fortunately we were not in too big of a hurry, to get home because it took a little longer then it should have!

I plan on making a 4x4ing photo palm book available in my etsy store with a few of the 300 pics I took yesterday!! Bookmark me and check back often.... :)

Legwarmers

Trinity now owns a pair of trendy leg warmers! She absolutely loves them. My sister custom made them for her, and I purchased them through etsy. She also has a store on etsy. She seems to really be doing good on it! A link to her store... http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5491851 She sells the most adorable hats for your children, scarves, she does several custom orders. Right now she seems to be staying very busy creating custom labels for other fellow etsiers! :) Go Heather!

Finally made it to the homepage

I was sooo stoked yesterday morning when I seen that one of my photographs had been handpicked by an etsy moderator, to adorn the home page! This is something I have been hoping for well...forever! The picture itself so far has been one of my more popular photographs...Even though a sale hasn't come of it yet, it completely made my week. Today I am still excited about it! I also added 2 more photo palm books to my website. Each a different collection.

its been a while

So, its been a while since I have updated my blog. Etsy has kept me pretty busy. I have added three new books. One pregnancy and two baby books. I have also added a few more pictures. Just today I added a completely new form of Art. Artsy Palm Pals. Its a pint sized coffee table book that fits in the palm of your hand. They are filled with vibrant dramatic black and white photographs of my various flower collections. Stop by and take a peek at all of my fresh items!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=49852

today...she finally found it. :) The abundance of dew that had been collecting on our windows, Since getting our natural gas fireplace. I was so surprised I had been able to avoid the wet hand painting on my windows for 2 weeks now! But today she called me into the living room with that tone meaning she was doing something cute and wanted recognition... I walked into the living room tho, and couldn't find her. Then I noticed the curtain moving behind the couch. When I found her she was smearing her hands all over the window. When she seen me she giggled pointed outside and said "quirrels...wher'ed they go?" Of course I have still been seeing them. (the other day they had found our bucket full of walnuts we had collected. Needless to say they were helping themselves!) But not nearly as many as normal. the lighting was soo perfect that before I knew it I had taken 30 pictures of her playing in the window. :) And To my relief, our dehumidifier came FedEx a few hours later. :) bye bye wet windows!

Superbowl Sunday

So, I hear Inianapollis won Superbowl 41. I honestly didn't actually watch it. Although I listened to in the background all day and even seen some of the hillarious commercials. Even though I don't watch it I look forward to the superbowl. Our tradition every year, is to all pile into Wal-Mart just a few hours before the game starts. We load up the cart with dip, chip, and junk food. We always eat deli sandwiches. Although 2 years ago, my sister has added making torta sandwiches to the menu. mMmmM (see pic)

So, today I finally got my etsy store up to date, current pricing, and added some new pictures. :) I am eagerly anticipating the arrival of my new wide format printer. Its expected UPS thursday!

You should drop by my etsy store! Its always open super late at night, and unreasonably early in the morning... If your not into art, I also sell baby books, and if that still doesn't give you the urge to stop by, you should still check out etsy. There are soo many talented artistst'... there's something for everyone!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=49852

So today, was somewhat of a quiet relaxing saturday. These days tend to make you reflect on things. Today it was my late Mustang. It seems only appropriate to give him (yes it was a him) a place on this blog. 6 years ago last August, I fell in love with this little mustang. Of course at the time I was only 19. So, as many 19 year olds do... I treated that car like my own flesh and blood... (shh sometimes better) Over the last 6 years I had sunk thousands of dollars into modifications cosmetically and mechanically. flowmaster mufflers, h-pipe, K&N, headers, a new top, cervini's stalker front bumper, cobra spoiler, ROH rims, of course a sound system... a new transmission. not to mention all the blood and sweat it took to keep it looking professionally detailed at all times. Its weird how much a car can become your identity. So when Jaydon and I decided to move out of our single wide trailer, we decided we would have to sell the car to help come up with the closing costs, down payment. We reluctantly decided we couldn't live in the car... and agreed to sell it. Well the perfect buyer called us from montanna last month. He had seen it advertised and was very interested. He brought a trailer all the way from Montanna a week later and loaded him up. It was a very sad day. I felt like I was giving away one of my children. Stupid, I know. But, aside from the perfect for us home we are living in, I got a new Sony A-100 digital camera out of the deal. I have been trying to slowly figure it out, and broaden my photography skills. I also have a Canon i-9900 due to arrive UPS the 8th of this month. So, I can finally take my love of photography one step further. Although I look at these pictures and its hard to not be saddened, so many good memories were created with that mustang... but I have to remind myself that now I can preserve memories to come, and have a little more fun with it.

The beginning...

So here is my first post. I hope to get my art a little more recognized here, and I look forward to looking back to see just how much it has improved. I will treat this more like a photologger... Or something like that. Here is my absolute favorite picture as of today... My daughter is the sweetest most loyal photo subject. She is at the age now where she asks me to take her picture... who can resist???