Artwork for Etsy #3

Dhole (a type of wild dog) :)

Artwork for Etsy #2

Sloth Bear

Artwork For Etsy #1

Little Red Fox :)

15 Sleeves and Little Cakes

I plan to start adding original artwork to my shop! (Doesn’t that look nice in magenta?) I have 15 protective sleeves in which artwork can be mailed to customers, and 15 items that I want to either sell or remove in the near future. Starting Monday, and not blogging Sundays, I would like to post a piece of artwork every day for 15 days. :)

On a different note, I recently made a recipe for Red Pepper Cheesecake. (Just think of it as a super creamy dip.) :) Instead of using the recommended spring form pan, I divided the mixture into two ramekins, and baked them in a water bath. We bought pita chips from the store; but the recipe for the cheesecake also contains a recipe for homemade pita chips. Yum! :)

Photo from www.foodnetwork.com

Here’s a link to the recipe!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/red-pepper-cheesecake-recipe/index.html

My Life In A Sea of Butterflies

Yes, butterflies. Before Christmas my sister, Sasha, approached me to help her with a ginormous order of handmade butterflies, which she had already been working on for around two months. We both started out thinking that I would just be helping her for a little while… It took over three weeks. In the end my other sister even ended up helping us out a bit. We shipped off over 7,200 butterflies. Talk about work! They went to a company called Studio Calico for their February scrapbooking kit. Here’s a picture from their website. I’ll put a link to their page below and a link to Sasha’s shop.

Isn’t this a pretty photo?

Here are the links:

http://www.studiocalico.com/kits/daydream-believer

http://www.etsy.com/shop/thegildedbee?ref=ss_profile#

I hope to be adding more products to my little shop soon; but I’ll talk more about that later! :)

Have a super week everyone!

Strawberry the Elephant

My Friend Alex gave me this sweet little elephant that she’d made as a birthday present. :)

Birthday Cake

A made a two-layer cake based off of a recipe called “Lemon Cheese Cake”. It’s called that, even though it isn’t actually a cheesecake—nor does it contain cheese.

I put some of my homemade lemon curd between the layers (yum!); and decorated it with vanilla whipped cream and coconut.

Have a cozy day everyone! :)