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smallmums...and postcards

Jenny from South Australia took her set of postcards to school to show her students...for Mother's Day they all made their own 'smallmum" to give to their mothers. Jenny very kindly sent me some photos of the children's art work....

"my mum likes to put the washing on the washing line"

"my mum loves to play checkers"

"lying in bed is a treat for my mum"...I just love the music sheet linen...
I can't wait to hear what the mums thought of them!

Some of you managed to find the second pack of 'smallpeople' postcards in the shop before I had a chance to mention it...there's a pack going off to Switzerland tomorrow and a few already on their way to the US.

If you want to have Violet, Beth, Alice, Charlotte and Yolande live at your house then have a look over
here...

The original smallpeople collages will be in the appleseed shop on Tuesday 15th at 8pm... about 10 are already spoken for but the rest of the crew will be there with bells on..... need to put this one on hold for a little while... as there are a few ideas in the works regarding the future direction of the smallpeople, it seems like a good idea to hold onto the originals for a while longer. I am now looking into the possibility of having full size prints made on archival quality paper as an alternative...will keep you posted. In the meantime if anyone is interested in having a custom made smallpeople collage just drop me a line for the details! 

smallpeople no 30....

here she is ....the final one in this series of 'smallpeople'.

Rose came up with a line for this one as well..."Ivy was quite amused by the strawberries" ( I promised her that I would tell everyone!)

Well,now what?To begin with,this weekend, I am going to stick them all up on my white wall and just enjoy them for a few moments. Then?
That's a bit harder to decide.
Some are headed off to new homes, a few are staying right here with me ( I couldn't give away my own children's names, now could I!)
The others will be up for sale shortly in my Etsy shop.
Aha, you didn't know I had an Etsy shop did you? It's been hopping along quite nicely for the same length of time as my (Typepad) appleseed shop. When I first decided to sell things, I couldn't work out which was the best way to go so I opted for two stores. Both have done really well so for the present I will keep my little empire as is.
Getting back to the future of the smallpeople...well, Damian is encouraging me to self publish a smallpeople book, along the lines of an ABC book.This was also suggested by a few other people. I guess if I went along this pathway, I'd be sure of a good supply of baby presents for the next few decades!
The other direction I am pursuing is custom 'smallpeople'- I have had requests for specific names and I think that it will be a challenge that I enjoy.

Hmmmm, something to ponder this weekend,while I sit with a glass of champagne and enjoy all 30 smallpeople staring down at me from the wall....any other suggestions most welcome indeed....

(By the way, I'm sure that this is not the last you will see of the smallpeople....one will pop up here and there when the inspirations hits me!)

Thank you to everyone who commented (or didn't comment but dropped by for a look) -the encouragement and feedback has been overwhelming. My postcards have gone to Portugal ( thanks Zelia!) New Zealand, Germany, Japan, Brazil, US, France, UK and of course Australia. That in itself is enough to give me a thrill!

Now, where's that champagne.....

smallpeople no.029

smallpeople no.028

smallpeople no.027

smallpeople postcards

I was so excited when these finally arrived - then, of course I had to work out how I wanted to package them.
At last though, here they are- my very own set of  'smallpeople' postcards.

5  original designs,  professionally printed in full colour on premium ,215 gsm glossy card stock (now,doesn't that sound lovely!) 

The back has the name of the collage and my website details ( quite small so it doesn't  get in the way of what you want to write)
Each postcard measure 14cm by 10.5cm.

Where can you buy them??? Why , right here of course.....

now I'm a wool shop!

I've finally found a few minutes to photograph and upload the beautiful Rainbow wool....it's in the appleseed shop now... its the same wool I love to use for these scarves here and here....

four beauties...

I'm not sure why but all of a sudden I have had a flurry of orders for paper and wallpaper packs from the appleseed shop. Usually the orders are regular and steady and therefore easy to keep on top of. However I have suddenly found myself rather low on stock and have spent the last few evenings making up 'new' old packs.

I tend to get sidetracked when it comes to sorting through my box of old photos....and certain photos,like the one above never end up in the packs. They go into a special pile just for me - I'm not sure what for but there are some images that I just can't part with.This photo has nothing written on it so I'm not sure of where or when it was taken- it came in a box of old photos from the US that I 'won' on Ebay a while back.
I just love the beautiful hair with the flowers and the print on their dresses is amazing.

Oh, and the greatest thing about the recent influx of orders,( besides the obvious of course....) - I get to hit the op shops again to search for more old paper!  All hard work at this end......

all things paper

Found a copy of the September Marie Claire idees the other day.....as usually full of the most inspiring ideas and images. Been wondering what to do with one of these (mostly) old paper packs?

Well, how about this?

or these beauties...

I just loved these...

After seeing these pictures I was feeling a bit inspired and finally got around to putting these tags into the shop...

And the "new" vintage wallpaper has finally arrived....