a calender for owl lovers...

I am so completely thrilled to finally be able to share about a neat collaboration I was apart of. Shivani of the very loved blog, My Owl Barn invited me along with other artists to submit an illustration featuring our beloved feathered friend, the owl. You have an option of downloading the complete calender for 2011 (I'm the month of July!) or customizing your own calender with your favorite illustrations. Oh, and did I mention that it is free!

(photo, My Owl Barn)

Go to My Owl Barn to download and/or customize your own calender and enter an amazing giveaway (owl plus anthropologie, enough said)!

Read the Owl Calender story along with all the illustrators who participated. The illustrations themselves are very delightful, whimsical and darling (there 30 illustrations total).

P.S. Some of you may have already seen my illustration for the calender. It's available as a postcard set at my second shop, The Kindly Owl.

The Kindly Owl and Nocturne Flora

Littlebighead has finally opened the Kindly Owl shop! There are a several items listed with more on the way. I
think I pretty much announced what the Kindly Owl is all about a couple of posts ago. I've made a couple of owls with the question of which sized face is generally favored. It was pretty even between the small face and larger face but I think I will continue to make the pocket owls with the larger face for a more 'owly' look. I do, however, have the smaller faced owl available in the shop!

I also mentioned that with the Kindly Owl is in a collaboration with Helena of Faunfare. She has blogged a beautiful post announcing our creative project Nocturne Flora. I can't match her literary skills so I would love for you all to read her post. I am pretty excited for our venture and you can find her Nocturne Flora creations as well as my contributions for it.

(a sleeping mandrake herbal doll for Nocture Flora)

I am truly excited for this creative process with Helena. She is wonderfully smart and creative with her ideas and products. It's been great going through this process with her as an idea, with a deadline (to help me most definitely!), to it's birth and for it's future growth. I will always been thankful to her for her support and encouragement and to Etsy for it was the forum in which we met (as well as some other dear friends). We do have more planned for this project so stay tuned for more information and updates as they come :)