Trades with Pipercat99 & Saltybean

Pipercat99 on flickr so made my day today! she agreed to trade her white Chu chu Nikki cat for my Monomono Dal. I've been searching for a Nikki cat for a while now and am so happy to be able to trade for one!!
Also, I set up a swap with saltybean. We are going to trade stuffies! I can't wait to display one of her funky mermaids in my art studio!!
My grandmother came through her triple bypass surgury a-okay yesturday!

I made these three stuffies within the past week for a friend, who owns a baby store, The Nesting Company. Hopefully someone will fall in love with one and will buy it!

a new mermaid

I have not painted a mermaid in ages. actually, I haven't painted, period, in a ages! This is a custom mermaid for SASessories via a trade on etsy. I am getting a couple pairs of her beautiful earrings in return. SASessories wanted the mermaid to have red hair and to be curvy, that's what she's getting. I was delighted to try some new techiniques that I've picked up on & never had the chance to use. (ex. purple shading, tiny scales, using hues of red and make some of the hair look farther away than others, a new way to do the face, the background, etc). I am so happy with how this piece has turned out. I wonder if prints would sell on etsy...
Check out these amazing mermaid paintings:

1. Come to me by: Elfies
2. Mermaid Isle - Print by: Mizzdraconia
3. Flamenco Mermaid 2 by: britsketch
4. Siren Song Mermaid art print by: redwhisper

Changing Blythe's Eyechips Tutorial

***Updated April 16, 2010

1. before

2. heat up your glue gun & melt the end of a glue stick.

3. Hold her eyelashes out of the way and stick the melted end of the gluestick in the center of the eyechip that you want removed.

4. Wait 5+ minutes! Grip the doll and pull on the gluestick. Pull hard - don't be afraid of hurting the doll.
5. The eyechip will pull right off the end of the gluestick, sometimes with a bit of a struggle - but it WILL pop off!

6. Do the same with the other eye.
7. Personally, I found these stickers. They are the exact size of the back of the eyechip (half and inch) & have a silver back. Punch a hole in the center of the sticker with a hole-punch (the exact size of the post on the back of the eyechip.) You can also choose not to foil the back of the eyechip. Cool-cat offers foil stickers in the exact same size of the eyechip, and they come in different colors as well.

8. Stick the sticker on the back of the eyechips.

9. Use a good glue to put the eyechips back in the head. I like to use Aleene's Tacky Glue. Hot glue will NOT work; don't use super glue as I've heard it will damage the plastic over time. Put a dab right inside the eyeball hole.

10. Be careful of her eyelashes and place the eyechip in the hole. Be sure to push it right in so that the edge, all around, is in the eye. If an edge is sticking out, the eyelid will not open properly. Hold the eyechip, in the head, for a few seconds, then allow to dry completely before pulling the cord.

11. all done!

Available for trade

Felt shapes

Angel Confetti

New package of eyelets, will be removed from package to mail

small bag of black embossing powder

Vintage postcard #1

Girl on the beach vintage postcard#2

Girl in a cave, vintage postcard#3

Vintage Kentucky Postcard

"The Janitor" Blank postcard

Angel stickers

Lot of golden buckles

DC Talk: Jesus Freak tape

2 meters+ of black trim

10 funky paper clips

#091 Pinocchio Magnet

#029 USA Lips Pendant

#086 Killer whale watch. The dolphins move at each second. Needs a battery.
#087 crazy haired pen
#088 Turtle Patch


#078 GOLD dolphin charm

















#069 Ocean themed body stickers































#065 11x17.5" USA flag














#067 Six wooden santas







Brand New planner. referance #017

4 Easter necklaces. referance#009



3 Days of Condor: burnt DVD. referance#036


ring size 7. referance#021

acrylic keychain with Neptune etched into the middle. referance#014