Happy Halloween!
It's Halloween - that dark and spooky time where we chase away the ghosts and goblins with a funy mask or a scary costume. I'm not dressing up this year, but I will volunteer to be the designated candy distrubutor. Here are some wonderful costumes and other Halloween ideas that will help you get in the spirit! Wild Things Wo

Real Fairytale Houses
These are all real houses. I love the first one the best, but they're all wonderful. When you see these, you can't imagine being happy in a cookie-cutter subdivision house, can you? A little hobbit home?

New Work
Leaf Bowl with Frog Stoneware, 5" in diameter

I hate you, Pack and Ship!!
I sold a painting the other day (yea!) and forgot to pack it and make the postage label last night so I had to take it to a Pack and Ship store.  Now, I've used these type of stores before, and I knew a little bit of what I was getting into - namely, paying a premium to ship an item I could easily do for just a little bit of money at home. But, I needed to get this out today and thought it would be worth it to get it

It's Not Easy Being Green
I was reading the Etsy forums, as I do on a daily basis and found this thread about acceptable packaging practices. Overall, it's very informative with lot's of good information and a nice forum conversation about the different ways people ship items, etc. A couple of comments made me pause, and the more I started thinking about it, the angrier I got. Apparently, some people hate packing peanuts. Not just because they pop out and make a mess when you open a package and get everywhere and are a  pain to clean up, but because they are not 'green' materials.  They're not environmentally friendly and al