What are you making today?

Happy Monday!

I would love to see what everyone is crafting today :D I'm busy making 200 (!) vintage matchbook notepads :) - half to go to a Conference in Australia, and the rest to send to a few shops in my hometown of Portland Oregon!





Star had to get in on the photo opportunity - he's turning into such a ham lately!



Happy Creating!
xoxo,
SOMA!

Celebrating Life

(oops.. meant to post this on 2/10/11! bad blogger!)

Yesterday I set off on an adventure to the Oregon Coast. It would have been my moms 56th birthday, and I wanted to celebrate her life. She taught me to follow my heart and do what I love! I adventured out to Tillamook Oregon to the Tillamook Cheese Factory to get my fix of squeaky cheese (cheese curds)!! Tillamook is a quaint farm town just outside the Oregon Coast.


With cheese in tow, i then headed to Oceanside Oregon to one of my favorite new secret hiding spots that overlooks the entire small sea town of Oceanside.

It was so peaceful up here, and I could hear the sea lions barking up a storm :)

Then it was off to Cape Meares to see the lighthouse (one of my mom's favorite things) and to watch a spectacular sunset :)


I am filled with so much inspiration when I drive out to the coast! This trip took me over 3 hours because I would stop every few miles to photograph something (sorry to everyone who was behind me and had to experience my quick pull offs along the mountains!). You can see the entire collection of photographs on my Flickr, here!

Being a new blogger, I'm still trying to choose a direction with this blog (and to be a regular poster!) - thinking of posting about how I make books (will be making a tutorial soon!), my favorite artists, and things that inspire me... what would you like to see??

thanks for reading :)
xoxo,
soma!

my big secret...

remember last post i told you about a HUGE secret? :D

I am honored and proud and at a loss for words at how excited I am to be this weeks featured seller on Quit Your Day Job!!

You can read the full interview here:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/quit-your-day-job-somavenus-12016

xoxo!

dusting off the blog!

hello friends!

wow has it really been since JULY that i said hello?! so much has happened since then!!
the biggest news being I quit my day job to be a full time artist! woohoo! i will have so much time to make new products, branch out into new product lines, participate in shows (portland saturday market??), and most importantly BE HAPPY :D

i have lots of new products since i last posted, so be sure to check out my shop :)

more big news - i moved to Portland (from the 'burbs of portland) in October! I absolutely love my new place. It's this cute charming apartment built in the 1940's with lots of character. I finally got around to posting pictures of it here on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/somavenus/sets/72157625939907092/


i launched a new line of prints as well as cassette tape books as well! I have so many ideas running through my head - and i have to say one of my favorite things about being self employed is that i can take off on a road trip photo adventure whenever i please!! Check out the photos from my last photo adventure here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/somavenus/sets/72157625941698624/ and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/somavenus/sets/72157625816366617/



whew! and i haven't shared the BIGGEST news! I will share that next week ;) I hope that you're all well, and please stick around, because i promise to be a frequent blogger now that i have time :)


latest photo adventure.. i have a knack for finding the most amazing secret hiding spots!! looking out at the dear pacific ocean on the Oregon Coast!

xoxo,
soma!