studio, originally uploaded by mintyfresh.

we’re finally really starting to settle into our little house here and now that all of the main living areas are taken care of, I’m taking care of my studio.

My fly graphics from Blik arrived yesterday and were put up just as soon as I could get them out of their giant cardboard sleeve. Today I hung all of the art on the walls and gave the place a good tidy. The only thing I’m lacking now is a good table – which still remains ever elusive. Where do art schools get them?

Since I knew that I was getting a much bigger space in this house than I had in the last, I started collecting art just as soon as we had signed on the dotted line. I love the ease with which we can all collect awesome affordable art these days because of sites like etsy. My ‘art to frame’ file is overflowing! New pieces for this particular room include:

Miss Derringer, by The Black Apple

Bjork Girl by The Black Apple

Stuff White Trees Like by Jon Armstrong (also known as blurbomat)

There Is Nothing Wrong With You by Mati Rose McDonough

The birds are all from blik and YES, I did pay a horrendous amount of duty, but only because home depot wouldn’t sell me the restikable ones.

You can see more photos of my lovely studio starting here, if you’d like. Now all I really need to do is get back to sewing!

free things for you!, originally uploaded by mintyfresh.

I haven’t been posting a lot lately because I have been locking myself in my studio to make new things – or at least to attempt to make new things. And now you get to benefit from that!

Until they’re gone, I’m offering up a free camera wristlet (made for point-and-shoot cameras, or little handheld video cameras like the Flip) to anyone who wants one (shipping included) with ONE caveat: that you let me know what you love/hate about it so that before these go into crazy Christmas production, I can get it *just* right (and send you a new, perfect updated version as a thankyou!).

These are totally in prototype format and need a good wearing in – so if you use a point-and-shoot a LOT, this might be just the thing for you! I’ve been using one myself for a few weeks now with my wee little Canon, so they’re sturdy and durable – that much I know.

There are three styles – some that are quick-adjust, some that are non-adjustable loops, and some (like that green one on the far right) with a buckle-like adjuster mechanism.

Leave me a comment if you’re willing to give one a try and I’ll touch base to get your mailing address and more.

Edited to add: Thanks everyone! I have enough “guinea pigs” for the moment…more on these soon!

rental renos, originally uploaded by mintyfresh.

part of the suck about being a renter is that you are a slave to the word removeable. Not really too keen on putting up curtains in our dining room (the window is taller than me, so curtains would have been totally overwhelming and *nice* window treatments all over the house would just cost a fortune, so…) we settled on temporary window frosting.

Let’s just say I want to FROST EVERYTHING now, this was so easy.