Creative Blogger Showcase: Chichiboulie

This week's featured blogger: Gretchen from the Boulie Blog

Gretchen is an illustrator/designer who hails from northern France. (Fancy!) She has a lovely Etsy shop called Chichiboulie where she sells original drawings, prints, and a variety of adorable odds and ends featuring her artwork.

What don't I love by this artist? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I could totally wallpaper Z's room with every. single. thing. in her shop! If I had to narrow it down, it would probably come down to one of these sets:

How much would Z love these little fairies? But these are adorable, too:

If she had a series of French-themed prints (poodles, Eiffel Tower, etc.) I would be completely unable to control myself! Check her out!

Creative Bloggers Showcase

I am SO behind on my showcasing! I hate to use it for an excuse, but man, this moving thing is kicking my dainty (ha!) rear! So I'm going to do a three-fer to make sure that I get all caught up. Lucky you! I am just blown away with how much talent is out there!

Creative Blogger One: Karen of The Polka Dot Press

Karen designs and sells gorgeous stationary and personalized gifts at her online store, The Polka Dot Press. Right now she has some sneak peeks of her holiday line. I am particularly fond of this one:


I just love the colors! I like the non-traditional twist on the traditional holiday colors. Looks like I know where I will be getting my Christmas cards this year!

Creative Blogger Two: Amanda from Confessions from HouseholdSix

Karen is a digital scrapbooker who blogs about her life as well as her skilz. Looking at her stuff is sucking me into the land of digital scrapping... I have been flirting with it for a long time with my My Publisher albums, but I'm not quite there. I might be now. My fave was this layout.


It looks like nothing I have ever seen in a scrapbook before. I love how it looks all hand-drawn and like she pulled it out of her backpack to show her friends. Awesome!

Creative Blogger Three: Suzy of by Earth Expressions

Suzy makes jewelry using unusual materials: wood, resin, paper, beads, leather, copper. She sells it at her Etsy shop, Earth Expressions. Many of her pieces are one of a kind! I just love that she is recycling glass and paper for her jewelry. I particularly liked these pendants.


The are made with paper, resin and antique silver pendant frames. They have images on both sides. If I weren't so deep into the mommy-blahs wardrobe-wise, I would be all over these!

Creative Bloggers Showcase: Woolies

This week's featured blogger: Sara of Woolies

When I was a kid, my grandmother was a master knitter. She made us all kinds of cool three-dimensional stuffed animals. My favorite was the white hippo in a yellow tutu that now sits on a shelf in my daughter's room. There were also a set of three bears, a kangaroo with a joey, and a yellow pig with a bouquet of colorful flowers on its back. I hadn't ever seen any others like them.

Imagine my surprise when I opened Sara's page and found this little cutie at her Etsy shop, Woolies:


Love, love, lovity love this little chick! Check out all of her cute stuff!

Creative Bloggers Showcase: ByCoco

This week's featured blogger: Coco of ByCoco's Art for Everyday Enjoyment

Coco is a Maine-iac with a passion for stained glass and folk painting. She has a lovely Etsy shop, also called ByCoco - Art for Everyday Enjoyment.

She has some gorgeous handmade stained glass hearts. My favorite was a red heart filled with flames. I guess it was someone else's favorite, too - it's not listed at her shop any more!

Creative Bloggers Showcase: Working Title

This week's featured blogger: Sayo Granich-Lee of Working Title.

Sayo is a New York jewelry designer. She works mainly with sterling silver to make some funky and fun jewelry. Some of her rings have dirt in them from famous places, how cool is that? Giant rocks? You bet! She also has a series of earrings made from vinyl flooring. Sound strange? They're cute! Check them out at her Etsy shop, Saru Star Jewelry. Her blog shows off not only her own awesome designs, but also highlights coolness in jewelry and crafts found all over the internet. Way to pay it forward, Sayo!

My particular favorites are the Anchorage Earrings. Love!

Creative Bloggers Showcase: Creature of Craft

I recently joined a cool (very) new web community called Creative Bloggers. Basically it is a place for a bunch of cool creative-types to (cyber) hang out together. Each week I am going to feature a different blogger and show off some of their creative endeavors!

This week's featured blogger: Creature of Craft

Self-labeled chronic crafter Jenny Mackintosh is the person behind Creature of Craft. Jenny says, "While my main sickness is beaded jewelry, I’m often afflicted with illnesses involving

knitting needles, glue guns, origami, and styrofoam balls." Jenny blogs about not only her own crafting pursuits, but also of other crafters on the web. Her work is gorgeous and available at her Etsy Shop, J. Mack Gems.

I particularly liked these two bracelets:

Gorgeous!

Go check her out!