Like many others in the online world, I am loving Etsy these days. I am thinking of opening my own shop, starting with some prints I have from college and building. One of the big roadblocks is that I haven't really found an outlet for my desire to be artistic and creative recently.
When I was living in North Carolina, I used to go to the coolest shop in the world, called The Scrap Exchange.
They have tons and tons and tons of just raw material - buttons, fabric, miscellanea, beads, and on and on, all super cheap. I used to go and just collect things that later became the materials and inspiration for projects. I have yet to find anything equivalent in this area, and am sort of at a loss as to where to get scraps and fun little materials that don't cost an arm and a leg.
Some of the ideas I have for projects I would like to tackle include:
- Handmade fabric dolls
- Drawings/ illustrations
- Needlepoint work
- Handmade children's books
Eventually I would like to return to printmaking as well, but probably not the entire silkscreen process unless I find studio space I can use (my old house is not suited to such space-consuming pursuits... maybe one day we will create that studio in the scary basement, but not yet). So many ideas!
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