-in the works- puddlejumper

new mini, a photo by becca.elpy on Flickr.

A new little girl.

She's been in my head for a while. She presented her own challenges, as each piece does. How do you get paper to look floppy? How do you get a bent-knee look with little tubes of paper? Will the hat fit?

Thanks to graph paper and so ingenuity I got it all to work. I just had to get a picture of her when she was done because I was so happy with how cute she is. So this is taken with my webcam. Now to finish her base...and decide on a name.

-Show Off- CURATE THIS!

Minifolk has been selected to be in the CURATE THIS! 2010 exhibit. I'm pretty excited about this. I'll be in it for a year and have to chance to be contacted by galleries around the country to exhibit in their CURATE THIS! shows.

Also, I hope you'll take a spare second or two to check out the other artists and designers in the exhibit. I'm so honored to be included.
There will also be a chance to vote up Minifolk's popularity in a bit. I'll post when I get details.

Ideas

Have some ideas rolling around in my head. A little kid, a drummer boy, an old president. Have some time to bring them to life.

Happy July!

- In The Works - Cake Toppers

For the last couple of weeks I've been hard at work making a prototype cake topper for the Minifolk shop. The groom I finished in a couple of days. He's sort of like >Captain Jonas, so I had a pattern to work with. The bride is more original and more intense...of course. She has a lot of detailing, for her bouquet to her hair and dress. I did a lot of tinkering, groaning and near hair-pulling and discovered that this desire to create has a strong hold on me. They're beautiful together, though. Soon, I'll have up some better pics on Flickr and a listing will be in the shop.

:)

PRESS - All Things Paper

Minifolk has received a glowing review from Ann of All Things Paper. She's a Twitter friend and approached me about a feature after seeing my tweets about my little people. She gave the story of how Minifolk came to be better than I do!

You can read the feature, leave a comment, add her to your reader. She's a gem and the finds she features are incredible.

- Brogan -

Seeing Brogan by chance is slim
He dashes 'round on a whim
his pot of gold
would yield riches untold
if only you could catch him.

The latest Minifolk art piece is Brogan the Leprechaun, complete with his pot of gold and rainbow. He is available now on Etsy.

That Thing I Do

So I'd mentioned in the 'Why' of the 5 W's series that I have always loved paper-crafting. But there are so many forms of paper-crafting...how did I come to quill?

I was in Etsy chat back in the day (circa 2007), talking about the angel ornaments I was selling at the moment. One of the fellow chatters mentioned they were very unique...were they quilled? I didn't know what quilling was. She linked me to the Wikipedia entry. Quilling wasn't exactly what I was doing, but it was similar and I was intrigued.

I stopped making the angel ornaments a short time after that. They just didn't get the response I was hoping for. I had incorporated quilling into the design of a few of them. But put it all aside until last summer, when I needed to make some people for the Etsy video and though...I'll try making them out of paper.

That's my story. I think it shows how the art/craft/design community can influence each other, expand the ways we do our work. Who knows? Maybe the ornaments will make a comeback one day.