Seahorses in my dreads

You wanna know where I got it dont ya??

You want to know so you can go fetch one for yourself huh?

Well...its MY secret! I aint tellin'!

OK OK I will tell but only cause I feel generous enough today to divulge my sources of awesomeness...

I got this from the amazing: Shepherdcreations shop on Artfire
She also has a shop on Etsy: ShepherdCreations on Etsy
ShepherdCreations Blog
ShepherdCreations Facebook Fan page

I highly recommend checking her out as her dread beads and other glass work is phenomenal! She is quite an amazing artist for sure. I am in awe of this lil guy in my dreads. He is just so sweet! I even put blue color back in my dreads to match him...I need to bleach out the roots real bad but it still looks cool, 'specially with my new seahorse friend riding on my dread!

Thanks so much Patrice!

BellaVita For Bella

My great friend Jessica finally opened up a shop on Artfire to sell her handmade goods. She named it in honor of her mother who recently passed away, she was known as "Bella" to her grandson Logan, Vita is Italian for "Life". I think its the most beautiful name ever and very fitting. BellaVita

She has the cutest handmade messenger bag in there right now with lil mushroom appliques on it. I cant wait till she fills up this shop!

She has a small baby (Logan) who is of course the center of attention so her shop may be slow filling up but you will want to keep an eye on it. This mama has great taste in everything hippie!

Jessica I am so super proud of you! Your shop will be a hit I know it! I just had to blog about this cause I am so super excited for you! YAY!

Sucking up to my mom again...

Mom don't read my blog so I am totally safe posting her surprise here LOL. I am almost ALWAYS looking for a way to suck up/kiss butt/be the favorite. I usually prevail, and this time its a sure thing my sister and brother cannot top this one. They just cant do it! I dare both of them to try to outdo me! (evil laugh)








I seen this shop one morning when I was listing my own items on Artfire. This gorgeous Pink rose ring was on the Front page and I fell in love..and clicked!

I was taken to a shop called Flower Rings By Kia.The pink ring was the only one in her shop at the time...but as the day wore on she posted the red beauty at the top. And I KNEW I had to have these!

Moms Middle name is Rose, and she has a thing for the color red, and she happens to like roses....This is a huge score as far as brownie points!




The beading on these rings is incredible as well. I just LOVE the way she puts these together with the flower, the beads that resemble leaves, and the ring band is beaded too! These rings feel like they are top quality for sure..as most handmade goods are! I don't want to take these off! I highly recommend this seller, as she was very super duper kind to me and her goods are top notch not to mention stunningly gorgeous.

So if you got a minute check out her beaded flower rings shop! She is just starting out on Artfire and will appreciate the love!

I cannot wait to see the look on moms face when I give this to her. Normally I send presents by way of mail, but this isn't just any old present. I wanna be there for this one!

Help Me Feel Better Cause I Am Turning 35 Sale

I am turning 35! AHHHHHH!!!!

I thought I felt bad when I turned 30 but this has got me!





The ONLY thing in the universe that could make me feel better about this is....SHOPPING!!






In order to shop, one needs money. So I am having a sale in my Artfire shop YAY!!!! All profits will be used to make *ME* feel better about turning 35 tomorrow. ALL items are marked 21% off cause I remember that week fondly.....Price already marked down no need to wait for a refund or any of that crap like on Etsy, oh gosh there I go on Etsy again...anyhoo! Sale ends when my birthday ends. Midnight August 21st. Have fun and thanks in advance to all the compassionate shoppers !

Good news For us

Where to begin! My luck has really changed this week! I got a wholesale account with a local lady who sells at Mellwood Arts Center She will be stocking her boutique with my soaps and perfumes! YAY! So if you live here in Louisville I will let you know when she opens for sure so you can stop by.


I won the Artfire Facebook contest! Thanks so much to my facebook friends for helping me out! Thanks again to HarmonArt for letting me write about their awesome shop full of ceramic and gourdament goodness! Thanks also to everyone that seen my link here on the blog and "liked" my comment. You have no idea what this means to me. I NEVER get to shop for stuff I dont need ya know? And this is a great oppurtunity for me to do that. Of course I am buying for the kids but I am getting some stuff just for *ME* too! YAY!


My husband and I are collaborating with my mom in her evil plan to move us to her property to make him mow grass and make me paint stuff around the house for the rest of our lives. I am OK with this as long as mommy makes lots of chocolate pies in return for the labor.

We have agreed that YES we are moving, and YES we will do it as soon as we get the money together which shouldnt be too many more months away. We have a rare opportunity right now to save a lot of money and we are taking advatage of it so that we can eventually OWN whatever we end up living in with no more housing payment! That is my goal. Then we can be rich! I think mom secretly wants to be closer to the baby and she wants us to be there cause she is lonely without dad but she wont say so.

Behind my moms house is a virtual family trailor park. This all started when my uncle bought a house in the country...then I got divorced from my first hubs and mom and dad couldnt deal with the drama and moved on my uncles property next to his house...then a few months ago my cousin (uncles daughter) moves a trailor and her 3 kids behind his house...and here we are looking to move behind moms house beside my cousin LOL. I dont think the land can hold another family member so all you guys back off the last spot is TAKEN! LOL It will be SO NICE to live so close to family! Maylee can play with her cousins and I can get to know mine better, it will be so nice. I cant wait!

So thats my "happy" blog post. Things are changin', times getting better and better. I am so blessed. Maylee also learned how to say "kisses" last night, and she has started giving kisses as a game this past week. Maybe that had something to do with our luck changing LOL. I would like to think so.


I have some new articles up on HMN too if you got time for more reading of my writing LOL. Now you know I couldnt go thru a whole blog post without spamming SOMETHING I do !

Artfire's New look and call for Mavens!

Artfire has updated the "MyArtfire" page. It is SOOO nice, let me elaborate!

You can see your last 3 months worth of earnings. It lists how many sales for each month and the total earnings you made for each month....niiiice


You can also see ALLL your chatterbox posts (their Forum) so if you want to you can check up on threads you have posted on with ease!

You can see in detail for this month all your sales and the total amount of each sale

You can see all the Admin announcements, and Admin actually makes announcements over there to keep us updated on whats up with the site! Even the bad things like the power outage a couple weeks ago they was on it letting us know what happened to make Artfire go down.

You can also see the guilds you belong to and can click on them to go to the guild page that is set up within artfire....




we dont get that on other sites...other sites (not naming names!) still have placeholder pages for their teams section...shows how much they love the teams...but I am not gonna start slamming "the other" site...





Artfire Also needs more Mavens(click there to see the thread about it). If anyone wants to be a Maven for Artfire they want to raise our ranks to 250 people instead of 100. If anyone out there is interested tell Sara you seen this invite on my blog my user ID on the mavens group is Mayleesgarden of course...and you can email Sara at sara@artfire.com and put "Maven" in the subject line and she will get you hooked up!

Being a Maven has been an awesome experience for me, we know what Artfire is planning before they roll it out for the rest of the members. I knew about the new My Artfire page before it was live, I just didnt have time to blog about it....Time is a rare commodity nowadays, if anyone has some please email it to me LOL!

One of my Favorite Artfire Shops: HarmonArt

HarmonArt is the work of husband/wife team, Brian and Emily Harmon.

I first seen their amazing work when they joined my Bluegrass Etsy Street Team a while back. Then I was excited one night to see one of their beautiful items pop up on the front page of Artfire, I was so happy to see their shop on Artfire...I knew they would do great there!

The ceramic work is so beautiful and so natural looking, I have not had the good fortune yet to be able to purchase a piece but trust me its on my "to do" list. Emily's Gourdaments are BEAUTIFUL! She has such talent with taking a plain ol gourd and turning it into a
true work of art. I ADORE the ceramic pendants, they bring out the tree hugger in me, and the lelaf shaped ceramic bowls look so true to life...I could look at them for ages! My favorite item they have has to be the leaf bowls. I am just astounded by how realistic they are. I wouldnt mind having a bunch of these all over the house...up where Maylee cant break them of course

HarmonArt shop is very nice looking as well, crisp bright photos capture their art so well and really show detail. Their photos are VERY treasury friendly They also have a shop on Etsy as well so all you treasury freaks may wanna consider this shop?? I would! Thie photos would look great in any nature or earthtone themed treasury for sure!

I think any one of their works of art would make a FABULOUS gift for anyone you would wish to give a gift to. This would be perfect for the hard to buy for nature lover in your life for sure!

When your buying gifts, please consider buying handmade. Convince your friends to buy handmade. When you buy handmade you support the very fiber of America. You strengthen communities and buying handmade gives you a unique and long lasting high quality gift that is sure to score you brownie points with the recipient. I am not asking you to buy from me or even the uber-talented HarmonArt...just buy handmade from SOMEONE. There are so many great places to shop Artfire is my all time fave, and Etsy is a close second. there is also 1000Markets too, they are an awesome site but dont get much love even though they have tons of shops!

Thanks for reading all about the amazing talent of HarmonArt! Till next time!

I decided to have a sale!

Well actually "life" made me decide to have a sale....

But for a limited time only YOU can be the proud owner of some new soap OR a discounted custom order on my awesome plus size clothing, if you BUY NOW before Sunday June 28th!

BUT WAIT THERES MORE!

With each purchase I ALWAYS give free samples. Anyone who buys from me during this sale can PICK 2 samples but ONLY if you send me a message on artfire or leave a note to the seller mentioning you seen it on the blog. Its like an extra blog sale ONLY mentioned here! YEAH!

For the best hot process vegan soap in town.

Click the pics to go to a fun fan site!

Matchbook Notebook how to tutorial

One of our newest members, kellibeans was so kind to make this AWESOME slideshow tutorial for us with pictures! Its on how to make a matchbook notebook, which would be awesome for marketing your shop.

All you would have to do is use a sticky address label to affix your shops important info to the front cover, or if your really skilled in Microsoft Word or any of the photo editor programs you could print a sheet of coverstock with your shops name, info and colors! Talk about making an appearance! You can get a package of coverstock for about 12 bucks at staples, enough to make a bazillion of these notebooks, this would be an awesome way to market your etsy or artfire shop.

I find handing out business cards is nice but if you hand out something USEFUL like a notebook people are more likely to check out your shop cause they will be USING your "Business card". I keep all the magnet business cards I get on my fridge and those are a great idea too.

Guerrilla marketing tips

This article was published by Pam Hawk who is amazing with this stuff. I subscribe to her blog thru email and got this post and I just HAVE to repost it here

151 Guerrilla Marketing Tips

I have a few tips of my own I got from our new team member Kelli of Kellibeans fame

Make small items and leave them places, like sample sizes of your product, something small that cost little time and effort to make with your business info attached

Make something useful that has your business info on it...a pen, a magnet, a calender,SOMETHING that a person could use often and be less likely to throw away or ignore.

Have fun with guerrilla marketing it sounds like something I would like to get into myself as I am ALLL about marketing! Just make sure your marketing ends up being cost effective and you dont go ovr your budget you set aside for advertising expenses. it can be so easy to go over budget, I have done it before! LOL

I'm a maven!

So there I am cruising the forums on artfire and I always check the staff announcements cause artfire is so rapidly changing and exciting I want to see what admin has to say...so I see a post about "are you a Maven"

Sure thing I say and click on it cause I am wondering what the heck it is...

Artfire is so cool they are offering some positions to people to test drive the new stuff they are rolling out before its officially "rolled out" This is a computer nerd dream come true. The need feedback on the new features they are working on and need people who can be thorough with their feedback,AND also blog, twitter and just generally blab about whats going on and what artfire is coming up with next..I am good at this! Look here I am blabbing about this oppurtunity so maybe one of you guys out there wants to get in on it before the offer ends tonight...

So I would advise any artfire fans to subscribe to my blog to hear about all the good stuff FIRST! I will know about some things before the press does. I got the inside scoop! So stick with me I am officially an insider...a "Maven"

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and I know I am a team leader on Etsy but I am not an etsy traitor...I just really like artfire and computer stuff and being an "insider" makes me giddy!

Repost from pamhawk.com Marketing tips

I am not gonna go into detail SHE did go read her article! LOL

PamHawk.com

Tips from the etsy forums, GREAT read. Lots of really great useful tips from pros like me who been there and done that and got the t shirt to prove it LOL

Have fun!

Artfire shop window

I love artfire! Here is my rapid cart, no account with artfire needed to purchase anything, you can buy from right here. How cool is that! All you need is a paypal account to pay. My artfire shop is here Maylee's Garden vegan Soaps
I am not an etsy traitor, but I do love artfire a lot for the features they have like no account needed to buy. If your not on artfire I highly recommend it!
More blog posts coming with real content. I have been so busy as the new leader of my street team, and with all the other stuff...I just havent had time to blog! But I miss you all and I will be back soon, I promise!

Mayleesgarden

Buy Handmade

I Heart Handmade Eco Show

Its here ! And as promised here is the link to the virtual craft show and the link to my page as well!

Maylee's Garden vegan Soaps

I heart Handmade Main page

The show looks great and everyone is offering some kind of deal if you buy from them thru the I heart Handmade show, and there are prizes being given away DAILY! So drop by, tell your friends, spam the link to the site all over the place. Its a very lovely site to behold, easy on the eyes and fun to navigate. So go check it out!!


I am offering free shipping thru my artfire shop if you enter in a special coupon code word...but to find out you have to see my I Heart Handmade page hehehehe

Funny pictures Funny video

I know I am so wrong...I know it, but I see this can of....food every time I go to Meijers, so this one particular time I have my camera with me so I thought I would share the giggles with you all. I myself usually have a good hearty giggle every time I walk down the isle where this is located.

I have no idea what this food product should be, it sounds like a venereal disease.....






This video was shot at a gas station in the WORST part of town. When I pulled in to video this sign I thought we may be shot or WORSE! I risked life and limb for this one, and sadly they have changed the sign, it used to read in order: We have Kerosene - We have Ephedrine - We have Colt 45 $1.99 and so on and so forth, it basically is telling everyone in the hood that they sell a lot of the products needed to make meth...but here is the sign since they changed it, if you blink you miss the "ephedrine" scrolling across the sign real quick...maybe they got busted?? Who knows!



This was made on icanhascheezeburger.com They have this cool program called a LOL maker, and you can make any of your own pictures look like the LOL cats pictures. So, I took this one of Maylee today when she was being a whiney butt and I HAD to tweak it a bit. She just looks so threatening ya know LOL



I made others too but they are older










Isn't she adorable, this was right after she started walking last September



Anyhoo, I just wanted to share my adventure videotaping funny meth signs in the hood and sweet baby pictures with you guys.


I will post soap stuff soon!! I list new ones every week in both shops

Mayleesgarden on Artfire

Mayleesgarden on Etsy

Oh yeah one more thing...my artfire store is now set up to take your order without you needing an account I had NO idea there was a setting I had to do something to till I found it on accident yesterday. But its all set up now and no one should have any trouble buying from me whether they are on artfire as a member or not. If anyone has any problems with it email me and I will get to the bottom of it!

So much to talk about today

So I cant come up with a snappy title to suck you in! LOL

First off I want to say I am a blessed woman. i mean it. I am majorly blessed, and I know that someone up there smiles on me cause last night I found this:

Yes kids its a HUGE container of Yoo-Hoo! I have dreamed about this moment since I was a small child. The day when Yoo-Hoo would find the love in its chocolatey heart to make a larger than 12.5 ounce container of its uber chocolatey goodness. Yes, This is the happiest day of my life. Overshadowed only by the births of my children....but its a close call on that one. I am attempting to email my brother a picture of me with a carton of this flipping him the bird...I cant wait to hear him cuss! ROFLMAO! This has been his dream too, we even heard rumors they sold 2 liters of this in NY and we tried for years to find one on ebay with no luck. I cant wait to tell him what I found...and I found it FIRST!

~~~~~~~~~~~~Exciting business opportunities part of the post!

In other news I have send a submission to this really pretty site called I Heart Handmade,they contacted me on etsy (MANY people do this but there are very few I actually mess with) They are doing virtual craft show for earth day and it runs from April 15th thru the 29th. Its the Eco Friendly craft show, and I am so excited to be a part of it! I will post here with a link to my page when the show starts. I think this will be a good way to get my products out to the world, and I am even gonna give away a baggie of laundry soap too! YAY! and with each purchase in my etsy shop made thru the craft show site I will include a free half bag of laundry soap enough to do 10 to 15 loads in your choice of scents. Again, I will post here and on twitter and everywhere else I hang out when the show starts so don't worry I wont let you miss it! LOL

~~~~~~~~~~Soapy part of the post....

And another thing I ran across today was this site here Coming Clean Campaign. I was not shocked really to find out these "organic" and "Natural" bath and beauty and also cleaning products are full of carcinogens. I figured they were, and I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. I will stick to my vinegar and borax thanks.

******Blog post turns to preaching in 5-4-3-2-1.....

This is yet another reason to buy handmade guys! I have been saying for years that skin cancer don't come from the sun it comes from all this noxious chemicals we slather on our skin every day. Occasionally I will read the labels on some of the "organic" products at the store, and even the damn bath salts contain crap that shouldn't be there! I wont buy nothing from a retail store other than the most basic of needs. I know that everything else they sell IS hazardous to my health and I take a chance when I eat it, use it, spray it, or sniff it.

*********Helpful tips coming your way!

Its so easy to make your own household cleaners, Vinegar and water makes the best window cleaner, vinegar added to plain water makes a great solution for mopping, best I ever used as a matter of fact. Borax can clean your bathroom and make it shine, and cleans stoves and kitchen sinks up real nice too. I shine my sink up with baking soda and rinse it down the drain with some vinegar to keep the drains clear. If you cant stand the smell of vinegar (I HATE IT!!!!!!) Get a bottle of essential oil that you LIKE and put a few drops in with the vinegar mixture. It helps a LOT! My house usually smells like lavender when I mop the floors, not like vinegar.

So there it is. Make your own cleaners, save your health and butt tons of money every month. When I first started making my own, I was spending about 40 bucks a month on commercial cleaners for the house including windex,mopping floor stuff,bathroom cleaner,ect.. Since I started making my own my cost is now 3.75 for borax, and about 4 bucks for a gallon of vinegar that will usually last for 6 weeks. So I spend 7.75 for the same cleaning power I was spending 40 bucks on...AND.. I dont have all the empty spray bottles to throw out! I sanitized the last ones I used and I been reusing them for the past several years. Do it for your health, do it to save your hard earned money!

~~~~~~~~~Touching, Personal, and sometimes bitchy whiney part of blog post!

Maylee has been sick all week. Her fever got up real high one night and scared the living hell out of me. Now I am sick too. I have been running on 3 to 6 hours of sleep a night and I am beat. I am implementing a new plan for mine and Maylees health starting today. We will be megadosing vitamin C till the weather finally changes. I will do 2 grams a day and Maylee can do 250 to 500 milligrams...we will make Zinc candy a part of our every day routine too. This is the 2nd time in 6 weeks we have been sick. Before this it had been years since I was full blown sick with the flu. This is just too much!

Tyler has made Yellow belt in his Karate class! YAY! he tested a couple weeks ago and he passed! here is a video his instructor made. The one here I have linked to is his instructor at a tournament we all went to last weekend. He does some really cool moves.
Here is a video of Tylers instructor dropping some kid with one kick. he was 15 when he did this, and he says he let the kid know he was gonna roundhouse kick him, but he didnt even try to block it. Ahhh karate drama.

Maylee loves watching the fighter guys and trying to do what they do. She loves it when we take her in to Tylers Karate class. She is so cute with her kicks and punches.

OK I think thats it for all my babling and updates and whatnot. i wish I had more time to blog so I didnt have to make one huge post but I been super busy this past week with Sweet Baby sick and now I am sick...I still managed to make soap though...and I made more body butter too...

~~~~~~~~~You knew this part was coming...the blatant self promotion part!

Oh and I am having a sale in my artfire shop!!!!!!!!!

New Products YAY!

I FINALLY did it. i FINALLY made up some salt and sugar scrubs and some bath salts YAY!

I been making these for ages but never put the time into packaging and all that till today so I am happy. One more thing on my "to do list" checked off!

I have listed these mostly as "choose your own scent" kinda deals, but may make individual listings for scents in the future.




The sugar scrub is yummy. I have one listing for the Pink Sugar Type scented salt scrub. I made myself some of this not too long ago in the dead of winter, and OMG! heaven!!! My skin was even softer than it normally is and thats some SOFT skin! Makes your skin glow too. I like it, and it makes you smell good too. I scent it kinda heavy like all my stuff, I intend for you to smell like this at least all day LOL



I also listed a new lip balm I made the other day. Its Orange Dreamscicle. YUM! Maylee actually stole one of these and LICKED IT! She liked it so much...of course she now owns the one she licked and I charged her 3 bucks, or we can settle up her bill with some sweet baby hugs. We are still in negotiations on this one.


So thats it for my new stuff, just thought I would post cause my blog is terribly neglected lately. I hate being so busy!

Oh and dont forget about my sale on ARTFIRE!! I will be posting these items today!

******************DREADLOCK UPDATE! NEWS FLASH!!*****************************


This is the back of my head...my dreads are about 2 months old now. They are coming along slowly but surely. This is right after palm rolling...and they still kinda dont look like dreads (sigh)


I do have some good ones though...the ones in front are locked up pretty good...I pay more attention to the back when I palm roll though...weird.

All advice on what to do about my dreads is much welcome!!! I have a small bird family nesting on the top of my head now cause its so frizzy.


Oh in case anyone is wondering here is my dreads. This was taken this past week, and my dreads are about 2 months old now. They are coming along...wish they looked less frizzy though. i am looking into remedies.

Showing off our cool new stuff

First thing is the necklace I got yesterday. i bought this from Kees Juicy gems who makes incredible tree pendants! She was twittering a special where if you buy a pendant you can have one sent to a friend for free! So I was all over it cause I had a friend I wanted to send one to, Journeyhawk who is expecting a baby any day now! I am so excited for her its her first one and she is nervous of course so I wanted to make her happy with something pretty. She also got her necklace yesterday too!
These pendants are so detailed. i had no idea you could do all that with wire! The stones are real peridot on this one too which is my birthstone (smiles) It is very well made and good size as you can see. Maylee loves it...maybe a little too much LOL. I highly recommend this seller, she has great top quality products and fast shipping! Go show her some love!

Next is some things we got last week (I been shopping WAY to much yes) First is my goodies from kreatedbykelly who has the nicest button jewelry and bouquets you ever seen! She has a shop on Etsy and on Artfire too...and remember there is no account needed when you shop on Artfire!!!
This is my awesome pink fabric cuff, and my huge button ring, these go great together and I plan on wearing it with my huge big corset skirt I have before it gets too hot outside to wear the skirt...now I have to find a top to match that is not a white t shirt....


This is my colorful ring that I have been wearing a lot lately cause it matches everything! Especially my hippie patchwork stuff. I love this ring!!! Kelly's stuff is always so well made! I am acquiring a massive collection of her stuff here and at moms house too! Mom has her bouquets and they are seriously to die for. They are so well made, and the choices of buttons are just perfection. i could go on and on about how awesomely talented Kelly is! The bag was made by Kelly too. I cant get a decent picture, and I will never get a picture to reflect the quality! This is my new crochet projects bag...for now but I got a feeling I will be putting my other stuff in there and making it a full time bag soon. its just too pretty! And it matches the ring LOL. So that's it for this round of Kelly stuff, go see her, love her stuff! Buy her stuff! She is awesome!!! And every package is like getting a present, its all wrapped real nice and pretty...I love it when I get boxes from her!

Next is Unicorns Pride. My good friend Lana from Hippiesew, she makes some seriously awesome soap, and she is the master of soapmaking. She really is! When I have a problem with soap I can go to her and she is ON IT! She KNOWS everything...I love Lana. I don't know what I would do without her...especially when I do something stupid like add stinky toasted sesame seed oil to a batch of body butter thinking its normal sesame seed oil...but that's another blog post....Anyhoo! Lana made these adorable carrots and bananas...well those are Maylees two favorite foods so I had to buy them as soon as Lana let us know they were listed.


Maylee LOVES her new toys! She knows they are carrots and bananas too, she snatched them up right away and went to work organizing them on the chair on the front porch







Lana makes some really super nice crocheted hats and scarves, and some cute soap sacks. I know its trying to be spring right now but these scarves and hats are still nice for those days when spring isn't trying hard enough. I have some hats Lana made for Maylee when she was just a fetus that Lana sent. Maylee can still wear a couple of them and I have used them this winter as well as all last winter when she was itty bitty. Lana is a good friend to have. I heart Lana! So go check out her soaps and stuff, she is the Pro I am telling you, she has good stuff! She has been at this longer than me!

And last but most certainly NOT least is this awesome outfit Maylee is wearing from Tee Hee Studios. I am in AWE! Seriously. The drawing was made by a little lady named Tulsi. She made these drawings and her mom is so talented she silk screened them onto clothing WOW! So I bought one LOL I couldn't resist! I am a sucker for anything made by a child, so this was something I neeeeded for Maylee. She looks so sweet in her little outfit, and it looks comfortable on her too, and I am in love with the pink and green tie dye effects...of course (smiles)
The fabric this outfit was made from is very very good quality. You know how some premade onsie fabrics are just kinda crappy or thin, well this isn't. Its really good quality. I would say this would look good after 3 or 4 kids wore it and outgrew it. I plan on gifting this to some lucky baby after Maylee outgrows it. Art like this should be shared!
At Tee Hee Studios you can also get an awesome tea party tablecloth and napkin set I am in love with these! I love the drawings and I love the dye work on it too. I also hear that Tulsi and her mom made a book...rumor has it that the book will be in the shop soon so keep a look out. i am also a sucker for kids books! Maylee LOVES books! I do too! And what better than a book a little girl and her mom made, how sweet! If I see the book before you guys do I will post here...after I buy it LOL!!!

So I think that's it for now.I will be buying more from Tee Hee Studios soon as Maylee needs spring and summer clothes and i HATE everything in the retail stores. I am trying to buy her all handmade or hand altered clothing. I just don't want to support COMMUNISM! I hate buying crap from China, so that's one main reason I buy handmade and why I encourage you all to buy handmade. When you buy from China you support communism...and a little puppy dies each time you walk in wal-mart....and baby birds fall out of their nest each time you THINK about going to wal mart...and volcanoes erupt and take out whole cities and towns when you BUY something from wal-mart....you get the picture. Its just bad. BUY HANDMADE!!!

Huge Sale in my Artfire shop

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I have been twittering this for a couple of days now, if you are on twitter follow me! I am having a massive sale in my artfire shop ONLY

ALL items are 40% off, and my winter clothing is discounted even further. I am trying to move out the clothing to make way for spring and summer stuff if I can ever get thru my other projects to be able to sew things for my shop.

If you been wanting to try out the laundry soap or just any of my soaps now is the time to do it! Shipping is just 2.50 on the first item, and 40 cents for each additional item except the lip balms which are free shipping as long as it is purchased with another item. This amount is pretty exact as far as what it takes to actually ship it to you. and any overage you may pay over 1.00 will be refunded to you.

And no account on artfire is needed to buy! You just go there, find what you like and buy it! The checkout process is easier than etsy too. I am encouraging everyone to start buying from artfire, its a great site for buyers AND sellers. I can make my prices a little better over there cause my overhead is 7 bucks a month versus 30+ bucks per month in etsy fees...so you see why I am having a sale on artfire ONLY LOL

This sale will last until April 5th which is on a sunday night. If this sale goes well I may try to have different specials every month in my artfire shop. its just simply too expensive to have a sale on Etsy, and I hate that. So come on over to Artfire! A LOT of Etsy Artists are over there too here is a list of just a few of my friends that made the jump to Artfire Most of these ladies also have shops on Etsy too!

KreatedbyKelly (adorable button stuff! I am her number one fan!)
WhimsybyMari (Incredible jewelry, Mari is a sweetheart too! I know her in person!)
Infinitecosmos (amazing glass work!)
Wilmothfarms ( Goat milk soaps! She is super sweet too, I know her in real life as well!)
Journeyhawk ( My dear friend who is expecting a baby any day now go give her some LOVE!)
PurpleSageDesigns (Makes awesome tams! I owned one for years now its made really well!)

And thats about all my friends I can think of off hand. I encourage you to visit artfire especially one of these awesome shops and show these ladies some love. Again NO account with artfire needed to purchase items! Thanks for the love guys!