Don't forget to enter my giveaway!

I'm giving away one of my 2011 Wall Calendars, and today is the last day to enter!  Contest ends at midnight TONIGHT!

Enter here!

Sale! Give-away!

So! I'm having a super-awesome sale in my Etsy shop this weekend, with all the holiday festivities kicking off after Thanksgiving (by the way, I hope you had a happy one!)  

You can receive 15% off your entire order, by entering the coupon code at checkout:

SUPERAWESOME15

Offer is valid from 11/26-11/29 only, ending at midnight EST on the 29th. You can use this on anything, originals, prints, ornaments, cards, etc!  Have a happy handmade holidays and support independent businesses! 

I'm sweetening the sale weekend with my annual 2011 Calendar giveaway too!  

You have until next Friday, December 3rd at midnight EST to enter.  

There are 3 ways that you can enter to win one of my 2011 calendars:

1. Leave a comment below telling me what super-awesome thing you plan on doing for someone else this holiday season! Please make sure and leave some way of contacting you! 

2. Follow my blog and leaving ANOTHER comment below (if you already follow, just leave another comment!)

3. Tweet the following on Twitter and leave ANOTHER comment below:  

Win a Super-Awesome 2011 Calendar by @MyZoetrope here: http://my-zoetrope.blogspot.com/2010/11/sale-give-away.html

That's it!  One person will receive one of my calendars, to keep for themselves or give away as a gift this holiday season (all 12 pages of the calendar can be trimmed to 5"x7" prints at the end of the month or year, so it's like getting 12 free prints too!)  This contest is open to anyone anywhere, whether you live in the USA or Timbuktu.  I'll pick the winner next weekend!  Good luck!

2011 Wall Calendar!

Hello! I hope you had a happy weekend! I stayed in most of the weekend, doing some work and being a little bit lazy (I'm savoring the lazy weekends for the crazy ones that are coming up  in the next few months!) I also went to the Makers Faire on sunday, and helped out at The {NewNew} Etsy team's booth, crocheting and knitting baby hats, booties, and bibs to donate to the Bronx-Lebanon hospital. It was super-fun and I LOVED walking around the Faire afterwards. I'll show you some pictures I took from it tomorrow.  

I also finished my 2011 calendar this weekend! So so psyched about it!  The new year brings a fresh start of sorts to our lives, and I think that you should try to fill it with as much happiness, giggles, awesomeness, goofiness, and kindness as possible! For each month, I created a brand-new illustration to capture one of those moments, and to serve as a reminder throughout the year. 

This is a super-special calendar and I am really excited about the quality of it. It is printed on a matte photo paper, with all twelve months plus a pretty cover page. This would make a special gift to old and new friends and family (and to yourself!) The original illustrations for this calendar were painted with watercolors on watercolor paper and all the text that you see in the calendar was also hand-painted! 

Bonus awesome-ness: All prints can also be trimmed to a 5"x7" print at the end of the year and framed!

Sizes: 8"x10" with rounded corners and a small hole for hanging at the top. Pretty mint/white bakers twine ties it all together for hanging. Any copyright text will not appear on actual calendar.

This calendar comes packaged up nicely with a hard cardboard backing to prevent bending and is wrapped in recyclable cellophane to protect it during shipping. 

You can find it here in my shop

Annnnd all together (click images to see it bigger!)

Shop Update Part 3!

Okay, this is the last of the new paintings that I did for my 2011 calendar. I'm really excited about them, and had a lot of fun painting them. I was trying to think of happy moments that occur throughout the year, changing of the seasons, with friends, or by yourself, and tried to capture them for each month.  

My calendar, with all these images and from the previous posts, will be ready in a week, when I get my printer back from the shop. 

This one is probably my favorite of all!  This is for October, the season of dressing up and pretending and imagination. 

"Cat Bandit"

Watercolors on 300lb Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size is 7"x9")

Original for sale here

This is for December, the month where I like to be cozy in sweaters and rock out! 

"Rockin' Reindeer"

Watercolors on 300lb Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size is 7"x9")

Original for sale here

This is for June, the month where the farmer's markets start to get SUPER exciting and all the sunshine makes me ridiculously happy!

"Summer Ride"

Watercolors on 300lb Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size is 7"x9")

Original For Sale here

This is for November, the cold month of bundling up and drinking lots of hot beverages!

"A Blustery Day"

Watercolors on 300lb Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size is 7"x9")

Original for sale here

And these two originals are gone already, but I have prints of them!

Barn Owls

Bunny Clouds

Shop Update Part 2!

Part 2 of the shop update! Six more will be added tomorrow...

"Sleepy Fox"

Watercolor on 300lb. Arches Watercolor Paper

8"x10" (image size is approx. 7"x9")

For Sale Here

"Changing of the Seasons"

Watercolor on 300lb. Arches Watercolor Paper

8"x10" (image size is approx. 7"x9")

For Sale Here

"Penguin Snowman"

Watercolor on 300lb. Arches Watercolor Paper

8"x10" (image size is approx. 7"x9")

For Sale Here

Shop Update Part 1!

Hello!  I am  *super* excited to show you my latest paintings that I made for my upcoming 2011 calendar.  My calendar will be coming out either later this week or next week (my printer broke the other day and is in the shop right now, sadface!)  More tomorrow!

"I Will Protect You" 

Watercolor on 300lb. Arches Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size approx. 7"x9") 

For sale here

"Monster Sundae"

Watercolor on 300lb. Arches Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size approx. 7"x9") 

For Sale here

"Panda Mom"

Watercolor on 300lb. Arches Watercolor paper

8"x10" (image size approx. 7"x9") 

For Sale Here