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Blog Archives 2007
December 2007
12/25/07 - Merry Christmas to all! Watch for new Valentine card designs in January.
12/10/07 - The Holiday Happening was a nice event with so many dog visitors including some poodles! I also saw some very uncommon breeds that came for the cookie walk or pictures with Santa!
12/5/07 - Come by and visit my booth at the St. Charles Humane Society's Holiday Happening Saturday! I'll be at 1778 Scherer Parkway in St. Charles, MO from 10am to 4pm.
November 2007
11/29/07 - The newest poodle card design is up now. It is based on Ingres' painting Grande Odalisque.
11/25/07 - Christmas orders are coming in regularly now and are keeping me busy. I'm busy creating a Cafe Press store front of various manufactured goods that I don't make myself, like mugs, totes, and t-shirts. Enjoy!
11/1/07 - The poodle version of John Singer Sargent's Lady Agnew is up and available. It's quite a portrait of a poodle!
October 2007
10/23/07 - Poodle with a Pearl Earring is available now. More designs are coming soon!
10/22/07 - The Goddesses of Craft are hosting a boutique event November 17th in Southern Callifornia. I have contributed postcards to their goody bags that will be distributed to the first 25 people to attend. In the area and want to attend? Visit their blog and find out where and when it will be.
10/17/07 - I have a newly confirmed "Holiday Happening" event in December. It will be held on December 8th, 2007 from 10am-4pm in St. Charles (map). It is hosted by the St. Charles Humane Society, a no-kill animal shelter. Make plans to stop on by, it promises to be a great event!
10/10/07 - To Find and Be Found blog entry.
10/2/07 - Visit my booth at the O'Fallon Fall Festival and Craft Bazaar on Saturday the 13th of October in O'Fallon, MO!
The new design based on the Renoir painting, The Luncheon of the Boating Party, is now available.
September 2007
9/28/07 - Thanks to everyone who visited my booth at the Strange Folk Festival! I've added a new baby card at the suggestion by a customer there.
I will be adding various new card designs in the next few weeks, including The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir and the Girl with the Pearl Earring by Vermeer and various other well-known works and occasion cards. Any suggests would be greatly appreciated! Send me an email.
9/14/07 - Visit my booth at the Strange Folk Festival next Saturday, September 22nd!
9/11/07 - My Poodles Gothic cards were featured on today's Cutable picks. Visit here and see!
9/5/07 - The pictures of the gift enclosure cards are up. I enclose one free with every order, but if you'd like more of a specific design, you're welcome to order more here.
9/4/07 - Both bookplates are up on the bookplate page.
August 2007
8/29/07 - I put up some clearer pictures for the Poodle Christmas cards and some new calligraphy examples of envelopes.
8/19/07 - The first new Christmas card is up now, Night Before Poodle Christmas.
8/17/07 - A new Thanksgiving card, titled A Poodle Thanksgiving Turkey, is up in the Christmas section. Within a week or so, I'll have the 2 new Christmas cards I've been working on. All cards are based on Norman Rockwell paintings found here.
8/3/07 - I've been working on creating marble magnets with my poodle images the last few days. Printing the image and finding the marbles were the easiest parts of the process and finding strong enough magnets and glue that didn't dissolve the Phaser printer's ink were another matter. I finally found strong enough magnets (able to hold up 5 letter-sized textweight papers!) at a hardware store nearby.
The next solution to find was what type of glue to use? Most people recommend a silicone glue. I had 5 various types of glue so I tried those first. Unfortunately, the first 3 glues (Amazing Goop, Bond 527, and Surebonder Clear 9001) all haave some sort of solvents in them that dissolved the Phaser's crayon-like ink. The other 2 I tried were a couple fabric glues I had (Fabri-tac and Sobo fabric glue). They worked out surprisingly well in the way of strength but they were more bubbly than I had hoped for. So I went out to the store to get 3 more glues making sure that none of them had solvents. The line up was as follows: Crafter's Pick The Ultimate, Aleene's Clear Gel Tacky Glue, and Decorator's Solutions Dimensional Silcone. All those types of glue worked well in terms of stickiness, but had varying looks. All were clear but Silicone was very flexible even after drying. I think that The Ultimate and Aleene's were the best for strength, clarity, and easiest to use was definitely Aleene's.
All that to say, that I've throughly tested all components of my new marble magnets and they all use the best materials for each magnet. Please visit the marble magent page for the new poodle themed marble magnets!
July 2007
7/27/07 - This morning I added a party invitation set with envelopes based on my Bluegrass Poodles greeting card. Bookplates and new Christmas card designs will be coming soon.
7/19/07 - Most of the beading section is finished now with the addition of beaded cellphone dangles and bookmarks.
There's also one new poodle card design made with a stamp that I carved myself!
7/18/07 - I recently put up the Rainbow Faith Keychains in the beading section. Enjoy!
I've also created four more greeting card designs of poodles in different poses. Visit my all occasions page to see the new designs!
Also now when you visit the AKC Museum of the Dog's gift shop in Queeny Park you can find a selection of my poodle greeting cards! Go on by and visit (and take your dog!), see all the beautiful paintings and other works of art about dogs.
7/7/07 - I've been accepted to participate at the Strange Folk Festival in O'Fallon, IL. Come on out and visit me September 22nd at the O'Fallon Community Park!
June 2007
6/30/07 - I've updated things here (and will continue to fine tune and revise) with a new layout, easier nagivigation, and new pictures of the products with a couple of additional new all occasion cards. Hope you enjoy it!
6/19/07 - I've added some greeting card variety packs on my Etsy webpage that you can't presently get on my website.
6/13/07 - I just finished the Poodles at the Piano greeting card (based on a Renoir painting called Two Young Girls at the Piano) and have created some gift enclosure cards too.
On November 3rd, I will be attending the Child of God Lutheran School craft fair in St. Peters, MO. Come on by and visit! All of my events are listed on my Google Calendar.
May 2007
5/4/07 - I've gone over the whole site looking for missing links and images that were never put up, so now everything should be there now.
I've also opened up a storefront on Etsy where you can pay with PayPal if you wish. I'll be adding things to both places though this will still be the site with the most options. All prices will be the same at both.
April 2007
4/18/07 - There's a new Christmas card up based on the first mass-produced Christmas greeting card. I've still got put up the handcolored versions though.
4/3/07 - I've put up all the wholesale pricing and ordering information in addition to making available a Rainbow Faith Sterling Silver and Glass Keychain. I have tested out the durability of the glass and the staying power of the coloring for the last couple of months. Both have surpassed my expectations and are still in great condition, unlike the first one I tested. Ask me about church group discounts on this item.
March 2007
3/6/07 - A new card is up with the running poodle logo.
February 2007
2/25/07 - There is now a buyer rewards program set up with the shopping cart.The more you spend the more rewards that you can redeem on future purchases. You must be signed into your account to earn the rewards points. To use one dollar in rewards, you have to have 1000 points. There are 4 levels of points. The first level is Bronze and if you spend $1-$100 you receive 20 points per dollar, second is Silver, spend $101-200 and receive 50 points per dollar, third is Gold, spend $201-500 and receive 100 points per dollar, and the fourth level is Platinum, spend $501+ and receive 150 points per dollar. You have to sign in to your account to have and use the reward points. Let me know if this part has any glitches in it.
2/6/07 - The shopping cart is up. Let me know if there are any problems with it.
January 2007
1/28/07 - My wedding invitation is up for all to peruse.
1/24/07 - All the paper choices are up now for most cards. There are a couple of valentine's to choose and each displaying the paper color choices.
I've also finished all the calligraphy on my invitations and will put them together this weekend, with pictures of the finished project for the wedding and calligraphy pages. I took down the Google Checkout for now, just because it was so complicated.
1/7/07 - The first valentine is up and available. My goal is to have a couple more designs up, with the color versions by the end of this coming weekend.
1/6/07 - I'm working on putting in Google Checkout for credit card payments. I realized that it was a much bigger project than I first thought when I tried to add theshipping and handling. I hope this doesn't cause too much inconvenience.