The Gnome Home is a photograph I took last summer of one of the weirdest houses I've ever seen. I don't think it's actually referred to as the Gnome Home by anyone but me, but it's just what I think of when I see it. That, or a Hobbit House. But I'm not sure Frodo, Bilbo, and company would want to live there -- too much glass.

This house is on private property in Door County, Wisconsin. Yes, I trespassed to get the photo, but I just couldn't resist. No one lives in the house, and it looks a bit the worse for wear. The windows are dirty, and there are some obvious cracks in the walls. It probably just goes to prove that building a house like that into a hillside requires careful planning and consideration... and the help of a structural engineer.

Like my Gnome Home? Buy one for yourself in my Etsy shop! :-)

I'm featured on the etsygreetings blog! Wahoooooooooooo!!! Actually, I'm not there, but one of my cards is. It's the A6 sized version of my Quoth the Raven greeting card, which is one of my favorites.

How could you not just LOVE this card!?!?!

I've been hunting down vintage images to use for a variety of creations lately, and I came across this one of Ophelia that's so hauntingly beautiful I couldn't stand it! I decided that Ophelia needed to grace a pendant, so I made one from shrink plastic. That stuff's so much fun, and I wind up crouched in front of the oven window watching as the pieces curl up and then flatten themselves back out during the shrinking process.

Don't you just love this?!

A bird flew into our patio door yesterday. I think it might have been a female robin. I heard a thunk and then a squawk, and when I opened the door the poor thing was flailing around trying to regain her footing.

My husband went for a towel -- we were going to try to hold her still so she didn't hurt herself any more -- but by the time he returned she had righted herself. Then she just sat there for about 20 minutes with her eyes closed most of the time.

And then she flew away! Granted, it was a wobbly flight at first, but we think she's okay. Whew.

My husband made lunch for me yesterday. Sometimes when he makes lunch he arranges the food into something fun. Just look what he did yesterday with my sandwich and veggies! :-)

I just snagged a picture of a Treasury that featured one of my favorite beadwoven bracelets -- the Raspberry Wave (it's in the bottom row in the center). The Treasury was put together by SandFibers, who's one of my favorite bead artisans. She does some awesome projects with those little seed beads of hers, so I was truly honored to be included in her treasury along with other members of the Etsy Beadweavers Street Team.

Scalloped Seahorses. Reading that, it sounds like an exotic seafood dish, but it's not. I found this image of a seahorse with lots of detail and shading, and I decided to turn him into scalloped tags. They're so cute!!!

And then I decided to make some tags using vintage Alice in Wonderland illustrations. After messing with them for awhile, I found that I just couldn't get them all to look right if I made them all round or all oval or all square, so I created an assortment of shapes and sizes.