C'mon Baby Sale!

Hello! It's getting close to "go time" here with this baby girl (due in 8 days, eeep!), so I decided to have a last-minute sale before I shut down my shop for maternity leave. From now until Sunday night (9/14/2014), use coupon code CMONBABY to save 20% off your purchase in my Etsy shop. ($10 minimum purchase.) I'll be closing up my shop next week and will reopen it later on in September or early October. Woo! (and really, c'mon baby! I want to meet you!)

I have loooooaaaads of new prints and cards in the shop, as well as my new 2015 calendar. If you had your eye on something, now is the time to snap it up.  A little peek at some of my new illustrations and cards below!

Thanks so much!
xoxo,
Michelle

Fab Sale!

Hello! My Fab sale went live last night, and I wanted to share the link with you (It's a little hard to navigate from the front page, but it is in the Kids section.) I'm super-excited about it! Check it out if you are a member (and if not, here is an invite link!) Fab is awesome and I've bought some great things off of there recently (like this cup!)  The sale lasts until next Wednesday at 7pm EST.

xo,

Michelle

Valentine's Day Cards!

Kitties in Love

Lotsa new cards this year for Valentine's Day! I tried to keep most of them non-specifically V-day, because I think you should tell your loved ones that you love them all year round, not just on Feb. 14th! But you know, you can do it then too. :)

You're My Favorite

Bunny Banjo

Hedgehog Valentine

Hot Air Balloon Foxes

Peacock Love

Custom Poloroid Portraits!

I have a fun little Valentine project I have been working on; custom portraits! I made these four different ones to choose from, and they can all be customized with your names, adding/subtracting glasses, making them girl/boy, girl/girl, or boy/boy, and changing colors. They come in a 5"x5" print format and are available in my shop.   I'm SUPER excited about them! 

More Valentines goodies coming soon. xoxo

Bear Portrait

Fox Portrait

Kitty Portrait

Penguin Portrait

Coloring Books!

Maybe you have noticed this about me, if you have read my blog for awhile, but I'm kind of a big kid at heart. A 31-year old kid! Coloring books were one of faaavorite things as a kid, and I can remember spending lots of time neatly coloring in pages and pages of coloring books. Stubs of peeled crayons were piled in my art box (kinda like my current art box actually.)

I've been wanting to make my own coloring book or activity book for awhile now, and I finally invested in a heavy-duty paper-cutter so I could do just that! I'm starting off with these three coloring books, and hope to expand the line to activity books, and journals/sketchbooks soon. And maybe I'll finally start working on that children's book I've always wanted to write and illustrate...

Coloring books are in the shop!

Annual Holiday Sale!

It's that time of year again where everyday seems to go at warp-speed, as the holiday season starts and speeds up. Or at least, that's how it always feels to me! I'm having my annual holiday sale to help you jump-start any shopping you were planning for friends, family, loved ones, (and yourself.)

From Fri. 11/25 - Mon. 11/28, save 15% by entering, at checkout, the coupon code: KITTYPARTY

Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow to my USA pals; eat lots of yummy food!
xoxo,
Michelle

Renegade Chicago! This weekend!

So excited!  I leave for Chicago in a few hours for Renegade and to spend some time with a super-great friend of mine in his lovely city.  If you are in Chicago this weekend, I would love to meet you!  I will be at booth #184 on Division st. btwn. Wood and Hermitage. 

Have a great weekend and I'll be back next week with my new calendar and all sorts of new prints and fun stuff to show you!

Summer Sale!

Hello lovelies; I hope your weekend was sun-filled and relaxing! I had a great time away from the city, at Nik's parent's house, and am feeling refreshed to work and get down to business this week. Lots to do!

To start off this lovely week, I decided that I'm having a SUPER-SUMMER SALE in my shop!  You can enter the coupon code SUNANDFUN at checkout to save 20% off your order.  Sale ends Sunday July 17th (midnight EST). Woo!

xo,
Michelle

Shop Update!

Hey friends! So I've finally gotten around to adding all the new stuff that I have made over the last few months into my Etsy shop. (I feel so slow sometimes, but yet I feel like I'm working so hard?!)  Anyways, there are 8 new illustrations, that you have seen peeks of, that have been made into cards, rings, necklaces, hair pins, and wing pins! I'm pretty psyched about them.  I've been wearing a little bear ring around 'cause I think he might be my fave!  I created a whole new accessory section of my shop, and these are all meant to be limited edition, so when they are gone, they are gone!

Have a happy friday and a super-great weekend!  I went on a creative field trip the other day, and I'll share with you some photos and sketches from it next week. Woo!

(Yes, I do crack myself up...HA)

Happy B-day to me

ZOMG Lemon Mousse Pie, tester recipe for Isa and Terry.  Seriously, this is the best pie I have ever had.

Hello!  Life is kinda crazy lately, preparing for so many things that are coming up in May and June.  Renegade Austin, in May, and Renegade Brooklyn, in June are heavy on my prep list, so I have been printing, creating, brainstorming, and planning for both of them.  I'm super-psyched to be road-tripping down to Austin, TX from NY with my sweet Mom and two sisters.   It will also be a family reunion of sorts, staying at my two uncle's homes and meeting up with other family members and a cousin I've never met before.  We are going to drive it in two days, staying overnight in Nashville, TN the first night, and we will be gone for about two weeks total.  I've never been to Texas before, so yeah, I'm pretty excited!

I turn 31 today, which has turned into a non-event really.  It's kinda a shame that birthdays turn into no  big deal as a grown up, but I'll prolly bake myself a pie later for some sort of hurrah.  Nik took me out to Blossom last saturday for some amazing early birthday food and wine. He's the best, really!

I mentioned my pattern-making marathon I had going on last week in my last post, and I thought I would show a few of them that I had finished.  I don't really show this side of my work that often, because it is so different, and really isn't my favorite part of what I do. But, nonetheless! I hope a company buys them and turns them into pajamas or something.   This is basically what I used to do at my old day job (which it has been almost a YEAR since I quit! crazy-pants!), and I still do on a freelance basis for design studios.   I could prolly make these in my sleep, hehe.

Rhino, waffles, and doodles

Hello! Hope there was lotsa fun this past weekend!  I stayed in mostly, except for a fun date with Nik Saturday night, going out to dinner for some yummy veggie sushi.   I finished a new print too, and managed to find some sunshine-time to photograph it!  I have had a few requests for Rhinos this past year, so I finally added one to the shop.

It was international waffle day, the other day, so of course I played along and made some for brunch. 

Some doodles

Home Sweet Home

I'm pretty excited about a new print in the shop (from the sneak peek I gave the other day)!  I originally drew this with pen and ink, and then digitally colored it up to make a pretty print.

Also, I'm trying to take new "environmental" photos of my work, so this is, um, a slow process, re-photographing everything in my shop.  I'm hoping the sun will cooperate with me in the next week or so. Slowly, but surely!

Fake Spring!

Bloom
Print available in my Etsy Shop!
8"x10" Pen/ink and Digitally Colored

So how about that fake Spring? Ha!  67 degrees F and gorgeous out on friday and it is 30 degrees F and there are 3-4 inches of snow (and it is still coming down!) on the ground today!  That's how this time of year always goes, but it is still painful anyways.  All is well though, I've been making lots of spring-themed artwork lately, and it puts me in a good mood.  The snow is really pretty and snow-globe-like out today, so that helps too.

Oh! Also, some really good news!  I'll be road-tripping down to Austin, TX in May to participate in the Renegade Craft Fair down there!  Woo-hoo! I'm super-excited about this. I've never been to Texas before, and I'm excited to see Austin and to visit with some family that I have down there.

Whimsy Birds, Purple/Green Colorway
Print available in my Etsy shop!
8"x10" Pen/Ink and digitally colored

Whimsy Birds, Turquoise/Green Colorway
Print available in my Etsy shop!
8"x10" Pen/Ink and digitally colored