Custom Paper Flower for Shelly Beach

Last week I was commissioned to make a special paper flower and crane earring set as a gift for the author Shelly Beach. I was asked if I could use some of the text from her books, Self-Talk to make the earrings and some of the pages from Precious Lord, Take My Hand for the book flower. This was my first time with a custom order and it was requested that I not harm the books themselves (normally I recycle book pages for the petals of the flowers) so it was a bit of a challenge. But I think that they turned out well, if I do say so myself :) 

 If you ever have a special project that you think I could handle don't be shy! Shoot me an e-mail and we can talk harris.caitlyn@gmail.com

Be True Magazine

I have some exciting news to share this week! The local newspaper puts out a free publication called Be True and the spring edition featured some accessories from the Plaid Peacock.  They picked two of mine, numbers 10 and 11.

Exciting News! - The Plaid Peacock

Friends! I have an exciting announcement to make. You can now buy my awesome hand made goods at two physical locations instead of just on the internet!

The first place is the Plaid Peacock.

It is a retail shop that sells art and products made by Iowa artist and producers. The Plaid Peacock is owned by Heidi and Jessica, a mother daughter team, and they just had their grand opening on November 12th. Plus they are super nice, if you live in Waterloo you should drop by and check it out!  

Plaid Peacock Facebook

316 W 3rd Street, Ste 1

Waterloo, Ia 50701

The Second place is Van Doren's Custom Picture Framing

This is actually the frame shop that I work at. It is a small, locally owned, business where you can have your pictures framed, buy prints, and now buy some of my things!

1100 Commercial Street

Waterloo, IA 50702

Also last weekend I participated in the Sycamore Craft Market held at the Sycamore mall in Iowa City. Here are some photos my booth and the things I was selling.

My Mom came with me to help out!

Kingston was good help too.

Paper Flowers.

Crane Earrings.

This is a stack of hand made spiral books I did for the craft show. Soon the will be available on my Etsy shop.