12 Days of Christmas Give-Away on Meylah!

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Each day for 12 days there has been a FREE GIFT given away on Meylah by an artist to one of their readers who has left a comment on their featured post.

Today the featured artist is ME! If you post a comment on the Meylah interview you can win a free little miniature mobile to give away this season (or keep it for yourself!!!)

Bike Nutz

I am lost in a whirl wind of shipping, teaching classes, holiday vending and shopping for my own family... add in a little bit of crazy crafting :)
I glittered walnut shells to attach to my bike seat. Just now I clear-coated these golden nutz with some clear acrylic spray. They are glued onto elastic cord for easy attachment to my bicycle. Not that I ride it in the rain, but come next spring... :)

Interview with Me on Meylah

I was interviewed for this fantastic site - check it out!

Merry Christmas from the Ester Lee

the motel that Tim and I stayed at last summer for a small wonderful beach vacation sent us a Holiday Greeting card via the email - I thought I'd share! I love this motel

Crafty Wonderland 2009 Pictures Oh My!

It was a foggy morning yesterday when I went out to set up for Crafty Wonderland at the Convention. The roads were icy and it was cold!

The show was such a hit! Over 7,000 people attended - all happy people, friends and families shopping and looking for great unique gifts. I swear each year I do this show it seems to double in every way. Its bigger, its more successful, its more organized, its more fun, and the line to get in the door is incredible!

I rushed out at 10:45am to get pictures of the line (the door opens at 11 and the first 200 people get free bags of awesome goodies). People had started lining up around 9:30am. The line was so long it took me 15 minutes to travel the length of it, past the Starbucks, around the corner, up the escalator, down another hallway, up another escalator and down another hall to the doors by the MAX train. 2,000 people had lined up at the door to get it at 11am. I find that to be AMAZING. I saw many friends in line and it was so wonderful. Then I had to run back and get back to my booth as the show opened!Here is a little slide-show I put together of pictures from the day - it just takes a moment to watch and I thought that was easier than posting a zillion pictures, and this way you get to listen to Charlie Brown Christmas music while looking at the pictures :)

The show was really well organized, I can't say that enough! The ladies had us all set up with vendor badges and coupons for food and parking indoors to load in/out... the kids had their own aisle this year, which I thought was really a highlight of the show: a whole row of young artists and their artwork. I think a lot of them sold out really quickly (if they stayed in their booths!).

Oh and there was a crafting area with different projects running thru-out the day... I didn't get pictures of that cuz I was busy in my booth selling mobiles... but I heard great things about the crafting tables.

I'll end my bloggy post with a picture of the Super Crafty Surprise Machine that dispensed little balls of goodness - there was so much crafty goodness at this show, and crafty wonderful friends - it was quite simply a crafty wonderland :)

Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale!

This Sunday is the bestest of the Pacific NW: the Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale!
Its on! I'll be there, on a corner, so hopefully you can find me and splurge on some mobile art for the holidays.

Sunday Dec 13th * 11am - 7pm
at the Oregon Convention Center - Hall D
777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. in Portland

All Ages * Free Admission * Goodie bags to the first 200 shoppers * Free Craft Activities

The weather is looking pretty crappy:
I am really hoping to do the Portland Saturday Market tomorrow... I feel like my Christmas season down there is slipping thru my fingers... but in the end I am a wussy and if its too cold outside tomorrow I just won't bother. Because Sunday is Crafty Wonderland and hopefully the icey rain/snow won't keep the locals from getting to the Convention Center (it didn't last year!) Heres a picture from last year:
Restocking after last weekend is a happy task - although I have procrastinated, so now I have many things to do today... fortunately I produced little things like crazy in advance for Urban Craft Uprising, and while Aimee and I rocked out and sold many many of them, I've still got plenty left. So today I have to restock on larger mobiles. That is a good thing and I am ready, I have beams of steel wire cut, I have circles ready and waiting, and I have little space heaters humming around me keeping the space warm and costing a fraction of what my gas prices would shoot up to trying to keep my house warm in this freezey cold Arctic blast of 2009. Memories of last years snowpocalypse are floating in my head.

Glitter Time = Good Fun

The sunshine and the holidays got the better of me today and I found myself playing with glitter! Tim played too! He glittered the little bird above

I got the Martha collection of glitter. I've been wanting to glitter birds for a while now...

This little glue pen worked brilliantly on the little feathers... here you can see Tim working on his little red bird

I glittered this little cutie... and then glued him to a little magnet.

This was fun! I found myself wanting to glitter everything!

The colors in this set are beautiful

the cat got glittered, I am not sure how she felt about that.

I think my favorite color in the set is the fire opal.

I glittered the Crafty Wonderland postcard!