Parasol Craft Issue 4

Artists above: Fanja, Louise, Zara. There is much more in the mag of course!

Hi everyone! ParasolCraft Issue 4 is finally up! It’s inspired by Sea Faeries, fantasy and vintage nautical themes.

Included are…
Interviews and features such as:
One on One: Promoting Your Work Online
Ask A Lawyer: Questions regarding copyright/intellectual property
12×12 + Notepad Digital Downloads
Tutorial: A Quick & Easy Necklace
Giveaway: A $50.00 gift certificate for The Fabric Bar!

You can purchase the mag here for $2.50:


Thanks for your patience in waiting for this issue. It's got 100+ pages of good stuff! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together!

xoxo
Yasmine

x-posted in parasol's blog

August Download: 12x12 + Projects

Hey dears, I have a download for you! It's free of course, and includes 12x12 patterns by yours truly, and projects by Christy. You can find the entire download in my Parasol blog here.

How have you been?

xoxo
Yasmine

Christy of Sweet Tidings shares her envelope project at my Parasol blog. It's super easy :)

Oh and Amy Locurto interviews me in her lovely blog. She has lots of free printable links too so check it out.

Sunday

That's Alameda and its little house boats across from Oakland.






If you touch the jelly-like things, it squirts.

We went to the farmer's market in Jack London Square in Oakland and strolled around the docks.

I want to have a house boat instead of renting. The only thing is, I wouldn't have a yard if I live in one. Like where would we grow our tomatoes and artichokes? I think a vintage Airstream trailer on a decent sized plot of land would be perfect. Then we'd just plop a mini hangar or yurt where we'd work on our stuff.

I do love the idea of living in a boat. But I was taking the ferry one time and it was storming like crazy. I had to close my eyes and sit still the entire time because I was getting sick as the waves were quite choppy. Eep.

Do you live in a boat? What's it like?

Rainbow Cluster

Archives

In case you're wondering where my old posts and downloads are, they are now at APAD Archives. I'll be trying to organize my posts as much as possible, posting more of my illustrations here, and craft and magazine related items at Parasol.

Thanks for visiting!

xoxo

Yasmine

Girls in a Bottle

I get the same dreams often, especially when I'm sick. In this one, I am at a crowded party. And in this crowded party, there is a small bottle on the side table. Inside the bottle are Thumbelina-sized girls I see from a distance. One of them manages to escape and she starts crawling on the wall like a gecko. No one at the party seems to notice. I go, "A girl is crawling on the wall!" I run closer, and the closer I get, the little girl morphs into a gecko. And all the girls in the bottle become geckos. Then I'd wake up.