Giveaway!

In spirit of the Holiday Season... BrittanyGreer5 (her twitter name) is doing great giveaways on her blog all week! There is a giveaway for my shop: http://rista.etsy.com


So check out http://www.greer5intexas.blogspot.com/ to find out how to enter!

Little Thing Magazine

A few months ago, a new Chinese magazine called, "Little Thing Magazine" approached me via Etsy to see if I would like to be featured in their magazine. Here is a little part of the email:

Little Thing is an independent fashion magazine targeting chinese young creative females and circulate in 5 big chinese cities (Hongkong, beijing, shanghai, guangzhou and shenzhen) with 60000 issues every 2 months. We have 3 important part of contents: illustration, fashion , and creative design.... we also promote recycling, redesign,handcraft and working with illustrators worldwide. Our slogan is "we collect beautiful things".

There is a section in our magazine called Little Paper Majic, which introducing interesting paper artists, fashion image and creative little lifestyle brands with notebooks, papers. We are all amazed by your products and imgaes, they have similar feeling as what our magazine want to transmit - we collect beautiful things. It will be great if we can have an introduction of your brands with the designer by email...

We just launched our 1st issue late last 2 month and 2nd issue this month,and hopefully we can get your works on the 3nd issue. You can contact me by XXXX@ hotmail.com (msn) and visit our website http://littlethingmagazine.com

If you go to the website... I suggest going to google and typing Littlethingmagazine in the search box and then using the translate option to view the site in english. Unless you read Chinese that is.

I got a copy of the magazine today, and was very surprised at how thick and pretty it is!

I also added a picture of the pretty paper doll that came in the magazine.. how cute!


I feel on top of the world!

Susan~

I finally made those pillow boxes!

I've been dying to learn how to make pillow boxes... I kept looking at the templates but I kept putting it off. It looked like a pain in the butt. And.. well it is a little.. but not horrible. I traced and followed the template, and they turned out pretty good. I need to find a bigger template though, cuz these are tiny.







Then I made a few pads and pens for my own families stocking stuffers! They are so cute I want to keep them or sell them instead!

Creating, promoting, and working

I've been so busy working full time, coming home and creating custom orders, working on promoting my Etsy Store and promoting on my twitter, that I always forget about posting on my blog!

I've been making a ton of exciting new clipboards and mini clipboards... which are now my new favorite. But they are more expensive to make.. so I only have a few right now.

This weekend I found I'm featured in two blogs! http://lavendercottageoriginals.blogspot.com and http://poshplushies.blogspot.com/

So totally sweet to be recognized for your work!

I'll leave you with some new pictures of some of my new and custom order items!

Promoting my business!

Teacher Gifts, Stocking Stuffers, Greeting Cards, Holiday Tags! I’ve got them all in my shop! And I’d love for you to look at them.

Each item I hand make or paper alter to give each a one of a kind look.

I am able to make multiples for that custom order you would like as well. Just convo me!

http://rista.etsy.com

Gift Card Holder

We learned how to make lots of new things yesterday! One of these being this new gift card holder! How cute is that?

Snowmen!

Aren't snowmen just adorable? I love them!

I got this set for $1.80 and there is many more images in the set!

Updates in my etsy store again!

http://rista.etsy.com