Artfire Collections!

I'm so honored to have my mask featured in three different collections.


Masquerade opened today and it is curated by MidnightEternal. It features some of the most beautiful masks I've seen in ages, and I'm blown away by my inclusion in it.


Two others were created recently but I hadn't caught up blogging on them.


Among the Leaves of Gold opened on September 25th and is curated by Jeliza. Wow is the only word that can express the talent of the others included in this collection, and again, it amazes and thrills me to be a part of it.

BOOOO! also opened on September 25th and is curated by CatsWire. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, and this collection has some cute, beautiful, spooky inclusions. I'm so proud of being a part of it!


Ladies, you've all inspired me by your choices, and I really am itching to make some collections myself. Such a wonderful, wonderful Artfire tool!!

Get in on Artfire's big Group Deal event!

I've mentioned before how much I love Artfire. Although I'm still trying to get back into making my stuff and building up my reputation, I've been very pleased with how Artfire manages their business and all the wonderful perks in my Pro Studio. Now they have a new incentive to stick with them.

The jist of it is, if they get 20,000 people to opt in for a Pro studio, they'll offer those studios for $5.95 a month (half of their normal price) for life. They have a 50,000 studio cap on it, so I've already signed up both my studios (gundowerks, and a new shop I'm going to try out, sassy chic). All you have to do is sign up with your credit card info at their group deal page.  They won't charge anything until/unless they reach their goal, at which point you'll be charged $5.95 a month. You can sign up with as many individual shops as you'd like. It's such a fantastic deal, because that's all Artfire charges, no per-listing fees at all.

Besides this, for the next 24 hours if you mentioned the Group Deal and link to the page (as I have), you'll be entered for a chance to win a Table Top Photography Studio.

On top of that, if you retweet the deal in the next 24 hours you'll be entered for a chance to win $100
 paid to your paypal account.

Needless to say I rt'ed from both my accounts (tdkgunderson, which is my personal twitter, and gundowerks) and this is my blog entry. I've also touted it a bit on Facebook.

I love Artfire, and this is just one more good reason!

Handmade Christmas

I just added my Handmade Christmas Artfire badge to this blog, and it's got me thinking - just how am I going to do that this year? It's easy to saturate your friends & family with handmade gifts, and there's always the danger that someone won't quite appreciate them. Not to mention the fact that (at least for me) it's just plain hard to make "guy gifts". Then add to that our paring down of the Christmas gift list, it gets harder and harder to figure out how. I've generally always defaulted to food, because that is a gift pretty much everyone cherishes, enjoys, and waits anxiously for next year to get again! I have a friend who makes handmade chocolates for his nearest and dearest. We love Tom for many, many reasons, but we adore him for those beautiful boxes of joy at Christmas. I like thinking that my friends say "I wonder if Teresa's going to make that heavenly pumpkin bread again this year..." I hope they do.

In the past I've done teabags of my specialty herbal tea in handpainted mugs, cookies, hot chocolate mix in jars with cross-stitched lid covers, the aforementioned pumpkin bread, cookies, and a variety of other treats. What's on my list this year? Probably pumpkin bread and cookies with my brand new $30 cookie press, acquired for $7 at Goodwill. Gabriel can help me decorate the cookies, and begin his introduction to Handmade Christmases. I hope it's an idea he embraces, and learns to put his particular spin on as he gets older.

So, how are you going to do your own handmade holiday this year? I'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas. Oh, and don't forget the giveaway that I posted about in my last blog entry!