FEATURED SELLER: SaltyandSweet

Looking for an unusual gift you can't find in stores this holiday season? Check out SaltyandSweet's cool mobiles. SaltyandSweet laser cuts black mat board cool characters and designs and joined with wire make the coolest mobiles I have seen. They are simple, clean and yet make a statement! Plus they are just a few miles from The Painting Libra in Tempe Arizona! Hopefully one day SaltyandSweet will make a mermaid mobile....

Check out a few cool designs!

I am digging the MJ design

I have always been a fan of pin-ups. Classy and sexy!

A cool wild wild west design!

Check out more designs at www.SaltyandSweet.etsy.com. Be sure to order early! The deadline for domestic orders is 12/16 for regular shipping!

New Moon & Breaking Dawn Inspired Mugs

New Moon & Breaking Dawn inspired mugs are now available! (I am currently working on Eclipse mugs). Perfect for drinking your favorite beverage snuggled up next to your vampire or wolf.
Check them out at www.thepaintinglibra.etsy.com.

Featured Seller: The Short Shop

I recently went on a 7 day long cruise to Mexico. For anyone who has been on a cruise that long, you have to pack everything but the kitchen sink! It is fine and dandy when you are packing clean clothes before you go on the vacation, but what do you do about the dirty ones DURING your vacation? You don’t want your dirty undies touching your clean undies, at least I do. I used to use plastic bags, but those are not friendly to the earth and pretty costly.

At least that is me. Lucky for me I brought handmade laundry and shoes bags made by The Short Shop! They came in so handy! I was able to pack my shoes in the shoe size bags which keep the dirty soles away from clean clothes. Then I keep my dirty laundry in an oversized matching bag all week long then simply put it in one suitcase to take home.

When I got home, opened the suitcase, took it out of the bag and dumped it all on the laundry room floor! No worries about what was dirty and what was clean. I even threw the bags in the washing machine too!

Here are two cute bags she has currently listed on Etsy.

These make wonderful gifts for the person you can never buy for. I bet you could use them to wrap your holiday gifts in - two presents in ONE. Perfect for the planet too!

She is a newbie to Etsy and making tons of new bags daily so be sure to check her out at http://www.theshortshop.etsy.com/

A Little Mermaid After All.....

Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a mermaid. For some odd reason I never dressed up like one for Halloween. Finally this year I had a custom made costume made after my design of the little mermaid. I went for a more realistic take on Ariel with a seaweed style top, tons of shell jewerly and a textured tail with scales.

I spent my halloween on a cruise ship to Mexico so it was really fun to walk around in the tight tail. Since I walked so slow, everyone got a good shot of my amazing costume!

My boyfriend dressed up a tribute to MJ, a costume I helped him put together of course!

I was so happy with it I might wear it next year....

Featured Seller: SHORTEFFIGY

Check out one of my good friends AMAZING handmade journals at Shorteffigy.etsy.com. He makes them from end to end inside and out. All the papers are hand bound and pressed to make some of the best books that are better than you can find in the store. They make wonderful gifts for the upcoming holidays. Perfect for that person who writes in journals or doodles.

Here are a few examples......

The cherry paper is my favorite.....

Check out more books at www.Shorteffigy.etsy.com