Sunday Sensations!

Another wonderful vendor I've purchased from is Pegasus Soaps. When I started hanging around Artfire and Plurk, I went looking for friends who make the products I use and love, and I love bath bombs... luckily enough, Pegasus Soaps makes unbelievably fantastic bath bombs. I got hold of two kinds, both of which were fantastic. The Cinnamon Toasted Oatmeal bath bombs were delicious, kind to my skin, delightfully smelly and just yummy in every way. The other bomb I ordered, though, was the best... the Monkey Farts bath bombs are amazing. I love the smell, and the name just makes it. Also like the Oatmeal bombs they were kind to my skin and lovely to bathe in.

I think my favorite part is that each bomb comes in two half domes. I've had other bath bombs that are gigantic and although they are lovely, it seems like a waste. When they come in two halves I get two wonderful baths, or I could use both if I want to.

Michelle has a ton of different wonderful smells, all of which I hope to try as I can. I have to be careful though, she's one of those studios I could spend way too much time and money in! Michelle is also an incredibly sweet person who I feel honored to know and spend time with online. I'm blessed by her presence, and her wonderful products.

Monkey Farts for sale!

Sunday Sensations - ColtPixy!

My second buying experience from among my Plurk Buds was with ColtPixy. There simply aren't enough good words in the dictionary to sum up this woman - she's a wonderful artist, she's a great business person, she's a delightful friend and she is also the Super Ultra Amazing Guildmaster for my guild, the Polymer Clay Smooshers.

My Mom is the most amazing lady around, and she loves jewelry. She's usually seen wearing one striking piece, sometimes a strand of beads, sometimes a single focal. She loves color, and she always looks gorgeous. I fell in love with ColtPixy's Pixy Stones, and got one for my Mother for Christmas.

Mom was just blown away by how lovely it is, and immediately modeled for me. She loves it, and wears it often!

ColtPixy then started doing something that is so cute and so adorable it's not even funny... the Bunny Butts (as we Plurky folks affectionately call them). Her Lucky Bunny Charms are done with an amazing technique (one of my favorites) called Mica Shift. The bunny looks raised, but the piece is completely smooth to the touch. It's hard work, and ColtPixy pulls it off beautifully. I found an orange one in her shop and it had to be mine.

An example of ColtPixy's wonderful business ethic is that, when mine didn't show up way past the time it should have, she immediately shipped me another one. When the first one arrived almost immediately after, she refused to let me pay her for both. I now have two gorgeous bunny butts and am percolating ideas to create a piece of jewelry I can wear often to showcase them both.
Her items always arrive beautifully packaged. It's a joy to do business with this lady, and I'm incredibly glad (and lucky!) that she's both my friend and my guildmaster. You can find her online at her shop, on Facebook with the Smooshers, and at the Smoosher's blog. I highly recommend checking out all three!

My Artfire Blog

Sunday Sensations!

One of my favorite things to do is help support my fellow artists. I do this often by passing their links on as often as possible in Plurk, Facebook and Twitter... but every once in a while I splurge a little and buy something from their stores. I'm going to start a regular Sunday feature that will showcase or review my friends' stores and it starts today with a review of a purchase I made last year.


My Plurk Buddy MzzThang is awesome. She's Fo-Shizzle Designs where you can see all sorts of fabulous things like book thongs, recycled eyeglass necklaces, hair accessories and some really cool chainmail. She is also Earth Wind and Artfire destash shop, which is where I made my purchase. Actually a bunch of really fabulous purchases, including some amazing wild magnetic pink beads that I'm making a necklace for myself from, curved flat connectors that I've made some awesome earrings from and another couple lovely bits that you'll probably see in my shop soon. Everything was gorgeous, just as advertised, shipped fast and packaged beautifully. I love it when I find excellent people to do business with.