In order to celebrate our new line of funny novelty potholders (which are up on etsy BTW) we are having a sale where all potholders (even the older ones) have free shipping! Get them quick, we've already sold a few, and free shipping won't last forever!
Also we have a few new treasuries on etsy, be sure to check those out!
http://www.etsy.com/people/thegreengriffin/treasury
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Aline
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Potholder Teaser
Heres a quick look at some of our new line of potholders. We'll be putting them all up online soon...teaser!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
It's Like a Concert Tour But with Sketchbooks!
I just signed up for 'The Sketchbook Project' from the Brooklyn Art Library. And they say it's like a concert tour but with sketchbooks! Basically you choose a theme and they send you a sketchbook. you decorate the sketchbook with anything (drawing, painting, collage, found objects, poems, ect) and send it back to them. Then they send it and all its companions on a journey around the country to different galleries and museums. After that is done they archive it permanately in their collection!
There's still time to sign up!! It costs a base $25 for the sketchbook and then they have optional extras like a t-shirt.
The theme I chose is '...you'd be home by now' I plan on extending it to be 'If the Earth was your home, you'd be home now' and doing lots of nature related things, photos, paintings, pressed flowers / leaves, maybe even some pictures of faerie houses since they make the earth their home! a very sustainable / recycle-y / hippie kind of thing. lol I am super excited and will be sharing the process when I get mine!
<3 Aline
There's still time to sign up!! It costs a base $25 for the sketchbook and then they have optional extras like a t-shirt.
The theme I chose is '...you'd be home by now' I plan on extending it to be 'If the Earth was your home, you'd be home now' and doing lots of nature related things, photos, paintings, pressed flowers / leaves, maybe even some pictures of faerie houses since they make the earth their home! a very sustainable / recycle-y / hippie kind of thing. lol I am super excited and will be sharing the process when I get mine!
<3 Aline
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Assorted Faerie Stuff
First I wanted to give you a list of great faerie related books. These all link to Amazon, but we are also proponents of your local library. That is until you find out how great they are and have to buy them!
Felt Wee Folk This is a great instructional book about making little faery figures. It includes some great pictures of groups of faeries that I find very inspiring
Fairy Island This is probably my favorite faerie book. It is a little thin on story but the pictures are so incredible! They are incredibly detailed pictures of these houses that the author found on a faerie island.
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book I just bought this one and am so excited! There are multiple Lady Cottington books and they are all brilliant and funny. My fiance described this book as similar to how people press flowers...but with faeries.
Fairie-ality This is a great book of fashion designs for faeries. They are made form natural materials and the book includes both design drawings and photographs of the finished products.
A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk This one is less of a picture inspiration and more of just text about faeries in general. It is a great book to lean about the different types of faeries and such, and who knows what will inspire you!
And here's a little bit of fun, a Faerie Name Generator! <3 Aline
Felt Wee Folk This is a great instructional book about making little faery figures. It includes some great pictures of groups of faeries that I find very inspiring
Fairy Island This is probably my favorite faerie book. It is a little thin on story but the pictures are so incredible! They are incredibly detailed pictures of these houses that the author found on a faerie island.
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book I just bought this one and am so excited! There are multiple Lady Cottington books and they are all brilliant and funny. My fiance described this book as similar to how people press flowers...but with faeries.
Fairie-ality This is a great book of fashion designs for faeries. They are made form natural materials and the book includes both design drawings and photographs of the finished products.
A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk This one is less of a picture inspiration and more of just text about faeries in general. It is a great book to lean about the different types of faeries and such, and who knows what will inspire you!
And here's a little bit of fun, a Faerie Name Generator! <3 Aline
Your fairy is called Gossamer Willowdancer
She is a caster of weird dreams.
She lives in spiderwebbed wonderlands and insect grottos.
She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup.
She wears tiny black spiders on her dresses. She has delicate green coloured wings like a cicada.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Thanks to those who link to us!
Just a quick thanks and link back to those who are linking to us!
Bloggin in PA
Prayer Bedes
Thanks so much! <3 Aline
Bloggin in PA
Prayer Bedes
Thanks so much! <3 Aline
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Green Griffin @ Flickr
The Green Griffin has a Flickr! We have loads of pictures of our faerie houses and some nature photography taken around the country. Check it out!
www.flickr.com/photos/thegreengriffin/
Any be our friends on Flickr if you're on there!
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Aline
www.flickr.com/photos/thegreengriffin/
Any be our friends on Flickr if you're on there!
<3
Aline
Monday, August 23, 2010
New Faerie House!
I'm blogging form the library! Be proud mom!
So I have some new pictures of another finished faerie house that I'm finally going to put up. It was inspired by sort of a Mongolian yurt mixed with Peruvian mountain houses, but its not exactly based on anything, just my strange imagination.
I liked the idea of these cultures using carpets on the walls as insulation, so I wanted the whole thing to be covered in carpets.
I bought a ton of carpets from ebay and used most of them, I had one left that I'm using in a faerie sewing room that's set in an embroidery hoop.
But more of that when that's finished...
I hope you like these and please comment and let me know favorite parts and such!
<3 Aline
So I have some new pictures of another finished faerie house that I'm finally going to put up. It was inspired by sort of a Mongolian yurt mixed with Peruvian mountain houses, but its not exactly based on anything, just my strange imagination.
I liked the idea of these cultures using carpets on the walls as insulation, so I wanted the whole thing to be covered in carpets.
I bought a ton of carpets from ebay and used most of them, I had one left that I'm using in a faerie sewing room that's set in an embroidery hoop.
But more of that when that's finished...
I hope you like these and please comment and let me know favorite parts and such!
<3 Aline
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