bossy is the new beautiful

Gleeful greetings from your favorite intern! I'm pleased to exercise my blogging privileges in honor of a holiday near and dear to my heart, National Boss Day. It's a holiday I've celebrated for the past few years, one that always inspires a little nostalgia. The truth is I've known London as boss longer than friend, artist, roommate, or queen of the buttons. She was my boss in a tiny bookstore, in a tiny town, in a tiny moment. I spent those first book-filled days thinking this new boss of mine was intense, kind of scary, and probably mean. How wrong first impressions can be. I wouldn't trade her now for anyone.

Lady London, you're my forever boss lady. You've made an impression on me. As your craft and paint endeavors continue to grow and thrive, you deserve every success and more.

Happy Boss Day.
Love,
Intern

The life and times...

One of my goals this year is to photograph my daily life. Part of this process is learning how to take better photos and using more photoshop actions to edit them.

Today the intern and I had a date in downtown seattle. We visited the library, one of my favorite buildings! The architecture and colors are totally wild! My favorite spots are obviously the elevator and escalator...because they sort of scream at you!

I'll try to scan in the polaroids we took tomorrow! Most adorable ever!

Also, I've been quiet lately...I know. Sometimes I pull back, take pause, and try to collect myself a little. These past few weeks have been that way for me. I tend to share more of the arts and crafts side of my life but less of the rest. I'm working on it...Really...I swear.

New-ish paintings

The Intern and I had a fun time taking photos of a few new-ish paintings. I painted them back in February/March but never got around to listing them. So, they are officially in the shop now! All for under $25!!

Say Hello

Let me introduce you to the new loves of my life.... the Diana Dreamer and a pretty pink Holga! I opted for the 35mm holga to start with. I've never used one!! I shot a roll of film today and hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to see how it turned out! Today I mailed a LOT of pretty packages, said goodbye to two of my favorite paintings that sold, and played in all the leaves behind where I live!






I've been playing around with some photoshop actions today as well...wow, how have I not known about these? Awesome!! More new photos to follow :)

SALE! SALE! SALE!

Hey! I just updated the shop with 12 new button designs! And the best part is...all the buttons are on SALE during the month of October! Yay! Buy any 3 sets of buttons and receive a 4th set free! Stock up early for holiday projects! Sale excludes clearance and custom design orders.

Here are a couple of the new designs...

and a couple custom designs I made as well using some images from this lovely girl: