Hello and greetings from one busy
bee...I hope you have been good and
enjoyed your fourth of July
celebrations...I am in the final
stage of the Etsy's Storque article
I am writing about Balancing
Motherhood and Etsy.

This whole proccess has been a HUGE inspiration to me,

not only in the area of getting to meet some truly amazing and wonderfully talented
etsy moms, but it has rekindled the spark I had in high school to write
professionally, I wrote for the school newspaper and seriously contemplated a life in journalism
for a little while...I soon discovered I am far to wildly creative for that world and my
writing took a turn toward poetry, but it has seemed to come full circle with this assignment,

I have found a way to write about something
I am so very passionate about.I know that this is only a beginning
of this type of work for me, I will happily, actively purse this type of work from here on out.
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In other great etsy news,the original pen & ink drawing

Pretty Little Flower

has been so sweetly chosen to reside
in the most lovely of treasuries all
about flowers, it has been
wonderfully curated by lahua, who obviously loves flowers as much
as I do..Thank You lahua ..You can via the treasury here:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=55253

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Well, after this wild ride of the article is settled, I will be turning my attention back to the
unveiling of two new Etsy shops,which will be debuting with the many many

carefully hand made sweetlings I have blogged about all last month..I really can't wait to
show them all to you, and because you are so sweet, I will choose some of my absolute favorites and offer them here on the blog before I go live with the shop opening...allowing you to acquire
these limited editions before they are even introduced to the etsy world.There are no reproductions in this line, every piece I have created is
a True One Of A Kind Gem-----

I will be offering a sneak peek throughout the weekend.

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Here is a project that I told you about some time ago, I decided to take my time and show you each step of the way until its done...So for now you have the first parts of an original Hand Embroidered Drawing of a Sakura Tree

Well I'm off to format the article for submission tomorrow, if all goes well, Friday if it doesn't.:)Happy Wednesday Evening~

xoxo

georgia

Hi You~ Just a real quick head poke in to wave and say hi, hang in there...Things are about to get really interesting around here soon...The shop update is nearing & this time it will be also an unveiling of a couple of new shops, loaded with a slew of new handmade goodness. I've grown tired of half way doing things, from now on its ALL THE WAY! !My hands ache and eyes are blurry when my head hits the pillow these nights, but the fabric and thread is flying and I am trying to just keep up with my ADD designers brain. My little elf baker keeps me supplied with the most lovely yummy treats( like banana bread and cinnamon rolls) with copious amounts of tea to keep me going. Soon you will be getting a sneekie peek, until then...I'm off to create and work on the new shops....Take Care & remember that sunscreen folks!! xoxo georgia^_^

happy new summer weekend you~
whew! these weeks are flying fluttering away so fast, aren't they?
I am so very busy here at my little studio in the desert.
I am hand sewing, machine sewing, working with polymer clay, painting pen & ink and lots of designing.
All in preparation for the much anticipated shop update late next week.
I have happily sent out two orders with much love and extra goodies from the shop as well as some original exclusives...thank you both, you sweeties..I hope you adore your sweetlings...:)

I took a drive past the deserty mountains and cactus to visit with my parents a couple of days ago, I brought homemade cinnamon rolls..
we had a lovely time talking about how i now understand so much more of why they did or didn't do things when we were little, now that I am a parent I understand and relate more to them, I am glad I have the chance to express my respect for the great job they did raising us 7 kids.
I left with many new wrinkles from laugh lines I'm sure and bags of grandma goodies. I gave her the little pouch Santa Fe, from my shop..she loved it. They have always been so supportive in my creative endeavors, they would bring us beads from the Indian reservations, growing up in New Mexico, and since they run a business involving sewing construction gear and accessories, gave me my first job sewing, which taught me everything I know about the craft.
Oh la la la~

In Preparation to Spoon...
And no I don't mean the incomparable Jimmy Whitherspoon for all you hipsters out there, im talking about the radically killer cool new biz and website Spoonflower
I recently was granted a gracious invitation, to design and order my own FaBrIc !!
How cool is that?!?
I bet you can hear my sketch pad and pen smoking with activity from your screen huh?
I have a few ideas...try more like 50 ideas for new fabric, and oh the possibilities for what I will in turn make from them...
Watch Out world here I come!
But seriously I AM very giddy about the prospect,(it has only been a dream to create my very own fabric)
But I am using it as a reward, if the next shop update does well, I will be able to afford the yards and fat quarters i am dreaming up, so call it a bribe....
Well peepz I am far far to anxious for the next update and must keep finishing all these sweetlings if i am to be done in time!
Next time I will take pictures along the way, so I can let you in on the processes involved..which to me is the best part, so let me know if that is something you would like to see here..
Also I would Love, absolutely adore if you were to pass along something for me to give a go at creating...like a special adornment or painting you've always wanted, but never seen, I'm always up for a challenge.
Talk to you sooner than later...
xoxo
georgia
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greetings once again my cherry blossoms~the night fall finds me once again working on a variety of projects all
at once, I put the finishing touches on a wee wonderful bolete
mushroom, which I started late last night,
I woke this morning at 5:15 with the scent of a new day calling me from
a small open window, I snuck outside and while I sipped a ginger peach
White tea penned this poem;



greeting the day

I opened the door on to

a world of its own

a fresh new scent lingered

in the cool still air

groups of birds flocked to & fro

four, two, one, and calling ones

on the ground, their songs

overlapped- a chorus to the dawn



the grey of the morning slowly

gave way to the light

sounds of people began to drown out

the birds, the tons of speeding automobiles

bustling to work

the trail of ants by my feet

first moved slow

as the light brightened

faster they went, as their work day

too had begun

I sipped my cooling tea

hoping to slow it all for

a moment 2-or-3
~ georgia sakura

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In shop News
I was super ecstatic to sell the two of my favorite Victorian Lace Wraps
in the shop today~ thank You Martha, your a sweet, sweet soul :)


I am a buzzzing bee buzzying around the studio, needle glides through
fabric seemingly on its own accord, I can hardly contain the flow of new
ideas and the challenge of expressing the textural and emotional vision
onto 2-D materials is a challenge, one that keeps my mind fit and agile.


I am listening to either Straight up Classical or some serious early
blues, think Muddy, jhon Lee, the Wolf and Sonny Boy I, then I throw in
some Otis Redding, Ann Peebles and Al Green for good measure, and Top it
all off with a good dollop of some rare Charlie "Bird" Parker,
but the cherry has to be the well thought out laid back sound of the tenor horn of the incomparable Lester"Prez"Young..my very favorite of all..

I simply Can Not move past the masters of blues,jazz & soul in my music
choices, it has been thus for many, many years.
Curious....



~ Excitement is starting to grow about this next shop update, i am going
all out this time, and I have so many new & different Sweetlings to share
with you, I simply can not wait !.!..^_^


I'm off Lil blossoms to organize my fabrics and such for the busy day of creating tomorrow..
sweet sweet day.xoxogeorgia