So today I did my first Gocco Print! Here it is:
new designs...
Here are some new designs (not final designs, they are still in progress so they are more at sketch stage right now. )
The snow has arrived!
So despite seeing any snow here in the metro - the southtowns have begun to get a lot of snow! I'm still waiting. Here is a new pillow, dedicated to the snow I have yet to see. 
The Owl Pillow too....
I never posted finished pictures of the owl pillow - the owl I've come to name "Otis." So here they are:
The Finished Peacock Pillow!
Here it is! I got my sewing machine tonight- so guess what the first thing I did was! That's right, finished the pillow!
One word. Brilliant.
So this morning as I was playing nomad to the internet world, I found Margaux Lange. She creates beautiful jewelry using Barbie™ doll parts. I'm in love everything she makes. Intelligent and artful, way to go!
Here is what she had to say about these works, "Barbie™ was immensely important in fueling my creative life as a child, and ironically continues to be such for me as an adult. My "Plastic Body Series" jewelry stems from a desire to re-purpose common materials in combination with metals."
Sales. Soon?
Look for sales on etsy under ruthie designs at the end of November. I officially start selling what you see at the Second Storie Indie Market, the last weeked in November. I know I'm excited!
Still working on the peacock pillow! Prints to follow?
So I had this drawing of the peacocks and now I think I'm going to keep working on it for a print or two. I've been working on the pillow - and picked up some beautiful gold and silver metallic fabric paint to add just slight touches of color to the work in progress. THE PAINT IS AMAZING. It's not too bold or gaudy and it has these gorgeous rainbow pin-point sized specks in it! Just enough! I love it! Plus, it paints on smooth with no clumps. Anyway, so I added those touches and sewed the drawings onto the pillow this time... the pictures below are of the progress so far. I have yet to sew the front and back of the pillow together - so if it looks wrinkled or strange, that's why!
My new sewing machine!
Say hello to my new Brother sewing machine! It's computerized and regularly sells for over $160.00. Thanks to ebay, I got mine for only $85.00! This is really going to help me in the upcoming weeks. Time to speed up this process! I can't wait to get it in a week and play around with it. Hopefully, I can remember how to use one. 
The Peacock ... destroyed!
Here are some pictures for you to see of my peacock pillow I'm currently having fun working on... I'm trying something different with this one... A lighter material with the drawing on it, over the darker base fabric for the pillow cover. It'll have a more rugged and ruffled in terms of feathers (!) cut and sewn look between the two materials - but with the drawings over them will give a purposeful, pretty edge. We'll see if this works out the way I'm hoping it will. Take a look...
Workin' hard...
So, it seems that all I've been doing lately is getting ready for the Second Storie Indie Market...I've been illustrating and reproducing prints like crazy, while sewing and illustrating pillows at the same time - all by hand! I don't have a sewing machine or a gocco printing system, which I am desperately in need of for fast reproducing. Here are a few pictures to preview what I will be debuting at the event this year! These pictures are from my owl theme and some "crow" work. Enjoy!
