Mid-Week Check-offs:

Applied to two shows: Salem Art Festival and Crafty Wonderland (in Portland, Oregon)
Still need to apply: OSU Mom's Art Fair and Corvallis Fall Festival
Pillows completed this week: four
New design line: zero
Posts on FB: one
Posts on Twitter: more than ten (includes RT of other shops)

Still need to bring more pillows down to Mod Pod in downtown Corvallis - the coolest shop in our city! If you live in Corvallis or the surrounding area, check out the Mod Pod on second street for funky, retro, super cute home decor.

What can you check off this week? How many shows do you do a year? Do you like pizza?

Have a wonderful day!

Goals

Goals is a funny word. I guess it's strange to me because I'm horrible at making them, keeping them, talking about them, well you get my drift. I've got no problem wanting to do anything, it's just the final walkthrough I'm struggling with. This month, I'm working on a new line of Zillow Pillows, trying to get into the fantastic Corvallis Fall Festival, and juggling my Etsy shop along with keeping the ultra fancy shop Mod Pod stocked with Zillow Pillows. Okay, these things sound suspiciously like goals. Wants. Needs. Aren't they all the same? Am I actually good at saying what I should be doing, you know, like tending to my blog, but I need to do some mental reconfiguring to finish the tasks I create.

Pillows are the perfect "get-me-on-track-with-my-goals"

Using the squeezability of a retro-themed Zillow Pillow, I can fuel my creative energy into completing the goals I set for myself.

Below: a list of my goals for May - Please leave a comment if you have goals you'd like to attain, agree that goals is a funny word, or just simply want to type some letters because you used to own a manual typewriter. Writing, of any kind, is so Very.

Blogging daily
Four sales a week on Etsy
New pictures on Etsy
Write three short stories in two weeks
Buy my top five necklaces on Etsy (I have a love for necklaces like you may know a shoe lover)

Zillow Pillows soon to be available at Mod Pod in Corvallis, OR

I'm so excited to have my Zillow Pillows in a local shop here in Corvallis called Mod Pod. Here's a link to the website: http://modpoddecor.com/

I spoke with the owner today who kindly deemed my Zillow Pillows "flippin' adorable" Hooray! Jessica seems to know how to target the college girl with her hip furniture, art, rugs and more. I'll be proud to have my Zillow Pillows for sale in such a stylish shop. Now we both win.

Just as buying on Etsy is addictive, I'm sure if they sell regularly at Mod Pod, I'll be getting a few super fancy items from her shop instead of money. Good for me...

Ten yards of fabric on the way, a story in my head and an ice cold Diet Pepsi. Life is fantastic.

It's a happy day to be on the front page of Etsy! Support handmade artists, buy from Etsy.

Studio Madness

The studio is a mess. Zillow Pillows scattered, fabric in stacks and a few starts to my next short stories. I've been writing another Vera story. She's not much of a pillow hound, unlike me. She's thirteen now (having already celebrated nine, eleven, fifteen and forty-three in previous stories) and of course she's difficult. I'd almost go as far as call her unruly. But does she have to be as predictable as a Zillow Pillow? Can't she surprise me by being ugly (inside of course) and breaking at the seams? Does she really need to worry so much about her father and argue terribly with her mother?

Well, Vera's not going to clean the Zillow Pillow Studio and frankly neither am I. Let the creative magic of words and fabric sit and sulk. Good for them.

Off to sew a pillow...