"Spoonflower" , a new brainchild that has potential to go places, if you are invited to join the beta, you can print your own designs onto fabric. If you do original designs, this opens up new options for sales... fabric panels to be used in quilts, pillow designs, blocks for embellishment in purses, etc. In my case, it would make adding my suns to clothing and bags super simple.
If this interests you, go to this page and sign up, only a handful of invites go out each week for beta memberships, once word spreads on what they are doing the list is going to get long fast.

The cost of a yard of fabric is a tad high, ( 1 yard (42" x 36") $18.00 ) but it beats the heck out of screen printing and it opens up options not currently available if you want your original art included in something you make, or you want to design original art fabric for a quilt you are working on). If you print fabric panels to resell by the yard and separate the panels, resale should be a viable option while leaving room for a profit.

I see a thousand possibilities for having this option open to me. I can hardly wait to get invited!

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Jon Brooks' House , and he makes cool furniture too!

If you are into Mosaic, you will love the blog "Make Mine Moasic", I have been wandering around it for a few days, lot's of eye candy!
You will also love this website: Mosaic Atlas, pics of mosaics from all over the world!

I have decided to do a "forever floor" in my living room. I am taking this route for several reasons, first of all it is hard to screw up a 1978 mobile home no matter what you do, secondly it is kid and pet friendly, third it is a cheap fix that will hold out drafts this winter, a cheap fix that is easy to do...and fourth it speaks to my artistic side because of the endless possibilities it offers....if I get tired of it I can repaint it and change it at little cost, and if I hate it, in the spring I can lay pergo over it and benefit from the added insulation it will create. My plan at this point is to paint it to look like cobblestones over all, and I'll do either a main area painted carpet, or a couple of painted on throw rugs placed strategically. Might try to get it done by Xmas... we'll see how the gift making goes time-wise first. I just know the carpet is not salvageable, and the forever floor would be fun to do.

Anyway, I'm not dead... just busy. 3 gifts left to finish and then if I have time I can do extra gifts for fun

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A very cool photo editing site, http://photofiddle.com. Through this site you can try out several artsy photo styles and have the ones you like printed to paper or canvas for fair enough prices... nice side benefit of finding this page is that it may just save me from going mad since my computer crashed and took my photo shop with it. The results from doing a photo edit on this site are amazing for an online deal. I am actually gonna get a print of the one I did today of my dog Sheba (RIP). In fact I think it turned quite nice....

PopartSheba

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