~~ xoxox Valentine SnipPet Sale! ~~

Happy almost Valentine's Day to all!!! A quick post to let you know that Valentine munchkins and this white rabbit collage painting are now 20% off (plus free shipping) in my Etsy shop! Each sweetie will arrive in a festive, beribboned bag with a SnipPet bookmark. It's the perfect little gift for that special someone!

I'll be posting some new artwork this weekend....i have been having a blast with my new creations....I can hardly pull myself away from my desk :).

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Valentine Munchkins are here! xoxoxox

I was extremely anxious to get started on Valentine SnipPets, so i started sculpting a few right before Christmas and got them painted last week. I LOVE Valentine's Day!!! I always have....long before boyfriends and romantic love entered my life. Even as a child, I just adored everything about Valentine's Day. Creating handmade Valentines from snips of paper, paint, doilies and glitter was a treasured activity (an early indication of my mixed media obsession :)!). And remember those mailboxes made from shoeboxes that you would put together for school Valentine exchanges??? So much fun! And since I have a major sweet tooth, the candy/chocolate part of the holiday makes it even more appealing. Every year, my dad would come home from work with 2 big red heart boxes of chocolates under his arm...a red one for my mom and a pink one for me! My mom would make us a special Valentine dinner and always had some special gift beautifully wrapped for me on my placemat. She knew how important the day was to me. I think it is a wonderful time to celebrate all kinds of love....family, friendships, and of course, the love of our beloved furry companions :).

So, here are some of my munchkin Valentines. These are listed in my Etsy shop and the rest will be available during this month's Pfatt and STJ updates! Also, SnipPet bookmarks are back in my shop! They are $4.00 each with FREE shipping and 100% of the profits will go straight to spaying/neutering kitties in Lexington! These bookmarks are a perfect little Valentine gift and a great way to spread the furry love :).

An eclectic array of new snippets~~jugglers and munchkins

I finally completed a few new circus characters. A blue cat, a yellow rabbit and a purple frog juggling felt balls and sculpted onto wooden candlesticks. I used the pastel/painting techniques that I learned at art camp recently. I LOVE the softness and shadows you can achieve with pastels over paint! I have a feeling that I am going to have lots of fun in 2010 experimenting even more with them. The rabbit and the cat will be listed in my etsy shop shortly.






One of my customers requested a Bigfoot munchkin (seems like an oxymoron, right?) in honor of her brother who sadly passed away. He loved Bigfoot, so she wanted this little guy to remind her of him. So sweet. I really liked figuring out how to make Bigfoot into a cute, small creature....sort of feels like this is what he would have looked like as a toddler :).


And here is a custom collegiate munchkin.... an Oklahoma Sooners horse all decked out in his crimson duds!

A few new cuties....

I have been working on a few special orders and thought I'd share the completed ones.

These sweet pea elephants are soooo in love :)!




...and this Oregon State beaver baby is ready to cheer his team on! Rah! Rah! Rah!


Hope you all are staying warm and dry!!!! It's been wet, cold and windy here and the temps are supposed to really tank tonight. Brrrrr!

A turtle, a turkey and some chicks!

Shoowee! Where does time go????!!!! I have wanted to blog every day this week and each day has just flown by! I STILL haven't told you about my most recent TNRing and kitten rescues, and I promise to do that in the next few days. I have realized that I desperately need to work on my time management and come up with a more organized schedule for everything in my life! Otherwise, I just run around all day and feel like nothing gets completed.

I started sculpting quite a few new dolls last week...snow critters, caroling critters, holiday busts and a few custom orders. I just completed the special orders and thought I would share them with you. Here they are....a collegiate munchkin doll for some big Virginia Tech Hokie fans, a guitar playing turtle munchkin named Buckingham and a blue and green chick wedding cake topper for a very special couple!





And here's a sneak peek at one of my new little buggers, Gilly. Can you take the cuteness??? More about her later...

Alabama Ellie!

I just finished up a special order for an Alabama themed Elephant munchkin! I think this is going to spark a line of collegiate themed mini mascots! This little guy was a lot of fun to make. My customer is giving him to her one year old for his November 4th birthday....apparently, he is an Alabama fan in training already :)!

I am a Tarheel (born and bred!), so my next mascot will be a baby ram dressed in Carolina blue with a Tarheel on his shirt. Super cute! And since my husband is a UK professor, I will have to try my hand at a Kentucky blue mini Wildcat. The possibilities are endless! If you would like to special order YOUR favorite school mascot in munchkin SnipPet form, just let me know. These could be fabulous little Christmas gifts for sports fanatics!

Some exciting news for the SnipPets!

I recently found out that my little Rosalie Rabbit Munchkin will be featured in the upcoming holiday issue of Romantic Homes magazine!! Yippee! I can hardly believe it! The editor contacted Sandy Wood, the wonderful Pfatt Marketplace founder and fearless leader :), and requested that the Pfatt artists submit their Christmas themed artwork. I am so honored and thrilled that my little rabbit was chosen...especially among such talented and fabulous artists!! Rosalie will be in the Shop Around section entitled "Creatures Large and Small: Handmade ornaments to add to your heirlooms." I will creating a limited edition of this piece.

New Munchkins in my Etsy Shop!

Ta Daaaaa! I just finished up 4 new munchkin cuties. They are available in my etsy shop. I am offering free shipping to my blog followers and facebook friends! Just let me know if you want one, and i can reserve it for you and change the shipping to zero :).

ENJOY the little lineup!

Munchkin sweeties in my Etsy shop!

I finished up these two cuties and just listed them in my Etsy shop! I was dying to get these done before i hang it up for the week. I LOVE cupcakes and cherries, so I decided to add them to their little clown outfits. Pure sweetness!



I'll probably post one more time tomorrow before we head to Caswell Beach in North Carolina on Saturday. I am SOOOOO excited!!! I am ready for some sun and sand and rejuvenation. My mind and heart need a break from the cat craziness before I hit it hard again when we get back. My next adventure involves TNRing 40 cats at a correctional facility here. THAT should be quite the "tail"!!

Halloween SnipPet Munchkins!!

I FINALLY have some new SnipPet art dolls to share! I have had lots of creations in the works on my table...it's just taken me awhile to get any completed with all the cat craziness going on.

These Halloween munchkins are little trick or treatin' critters....spooky cute ghouls dressed in their favorite costumes! I really wanted to create some small dolls that reflect my love of vintage toys and retro style. I did some research and made a list of common themes in the styles of old fashioned dolls and toys. Very simple, sweet faces and shapes were a definite detail that needed to be utilized.

I haven't decided where i am going to list them. I had intended to include them in the next Spookytime Jingles update, but i may put them in my Etsy shop and make some more for the update. If any of them strike your fancy, let me know!

So, without further adieu, here are Emmie Elephant, Clara Kitty, Paulie Pup, Rosalie Rabbit and Pippin Pig.