Countdown...

My favorite person is coming to Columbus in three days! I am so excited, I can't wait!!

Too bad the weather here is beastly hot. Buying an air-conditioner was on my to-do list for next week. Poor Stella keeps searching for a cool spot in my apartment. She usually takes a liking to the area right under my clawfoot bathtub.

And tomorrow is the last day of teaching for the summer. I still have the massive task of cleaning and organizing my art room...but one thing at a time.

Sampler Sampler Sampler!

I decided that I will be contributing to The Sampler for the month of September! Hooray! I will be contributing 25 of these cute little apple hairpins. Note the very excellent packaging that I designed myself! I am getting quite good at piecing things together in Photoshop.


Anyone have any positive Sampler stories? I was thinking of including a coupon with a code for a *surprise* free gift with any purchase, just to see if people who got the samples decided to buy something from my Etsy shop.

School's Out!

My last day of teaching was on Friday. Now all I have to do is finish cleaning up the art room and then I am off until August 21! This is the first summer that I don't have to work every day; it's also the first summer EVER that I will not be in some way affiliated with a summer camp.

I will be teaching a week-long Teen Arts workshop at the Wexner Center for the Arts entitled "Graphic Stories", which is all about creating a graphic short story/comic book/narrative artwork.

Last week, I found out about some press that I (Sweet Stella Designs) had received from a little website called Restaurant Widow. It's really not as morbid as it might sound; Lisa explains the reasoning behind the title on her site. It's always gratifying to see that people are indeed noticing what I do.