Month: January 2012

In the past week or two I’ve been happily working on custom orders for Catshy Crafts. All of them have been for my embroidery hoop art! Some have been personalized with names or personal quotes. Others have been based on designs I have in the shop, but have a color change to suit a customer’s…


a little tour of my blog

You may have noticed that I’ve been changing the look of my blog lately. I was thinking that my former header was taking up way too much space. Now it may be a little too small. Oh well, it’s process, right? I fixed it, by getting some tips here. (read the 4th comment on the post)….



paper love

my new tags and labels for catshy I definitely have a love of paper. You could say it was my first crafty love. Up until now, I’ve been using my paper-crafting skills for my own packaging and branding, but I’d love to offer more paper goods to the shop. Little tags for scrapbookers, cardmakers, gift givers, note…


More and more, it seems like I’ve been preparing myself (without knowing it) to open up an Etsy shop. I’ve always been drawn to pretty things, typography, handmade.I’ve been a paper-crafter for over a decade.I take hundreds of photos every year.I’ve been a digital scrapbooker for the past 6 years (and know a few things about Photoshop).I…