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Buy Local By Local – Handmade Goods

Tomorrow Saturday December 5 is Indie Chic @ 10th Street at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe. There will be over 30 participants including me! The fair is at  Southeast corner of 10th Ave. and Mill St. at ASU Art Museum in Tempe from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. I have been having so much fun in the studio making goodies for this event at the museum. Stop by and visit! Here are some pics of just some of the goodies I will have on hand – plus there are still many more. These could not be included in the photos because they are still wet and drying but they’ll be ready in the morning!!

YUDU printed Hot Pink Sully Greeting Card with Vintage Buttons

YUDU printed Monsters on Tees

YUDU printed Bird out of the cage baby bib

YUDU printed Owl Greeting Card

YUDU printed Woodgrain and Cuckoo Clock Greeting Card with vintage button

Many many barrettes with vintage buttons

Many many Lapel Pins with vintage buttons

YUDU printed Robot Baby Onesie

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I shopped local and I’m feeling good

It was Christmas decorations day yesterday. It was 70 degrees and we were in the holiday spirit so we went on a search for a live tree. Hey – I am from Michigan you can’t take the smell of fresh pine from a girl during the holidays! We ended up visiting with Frank at Tree Time Christmas Trees, his family has been in the Christmas tree biz for 43 years. He sets up annually in the lot next to Harpers Nursery on Hayden south of Thomas. Sure this lovely tree we choose cost more then going to a big box but I feel so much better knowing the money went to a local business owner. Plus the trees at the big boxes looked bad, brown and crappy. Not that I was going to buy there anyway! We had a great time decorating with the short one.

Tree Time Christmas Trees

Tree lot located next to Harpers

So many trees to choose from

Our choice loaded on the roof

The tree - decorated by the short one (age 3)

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Playful fun – Get ready to shop local

I am having a great time in the studio making new pieces for the Indie Chic @ 10th Street at the ASU Art Museum. It will be from 10 am to 5 pm on Sat. Dec. 5th. I will start taking pics and putting them on my flickr. For now here is just a teaser of some of the goodies. This year look for a lot of color – per usual but also I have gone vintage button crazy! Loving the buttons right now. There will be cuties and creatures and robots and cuckcoo clock themes – oh my!

Girly Ornament

Bird Ornament

Paper Journal

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