With Jane In Catland: 01/02/08

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Etsy For Animals - New Craft Challenge

As a member of Etsy For Animals, I like to partake in their monthly challenges in their blog. For this month, the theme was "New Craft" for the New Year. To view my entry for this challenge, please click on this link: http://etsyforanimals.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-entry-for-new-craft-challenge_04.html

Cheers from Catland!
- Jane

Featured Artist - Patti Haskins

Recently in my new Flickr group, "Etsy Cat Crafts and Art", I held a contest called "Cat Christmas Creations". Members submitted photos of various Cat arts and crafts with a Christmas theme to it. There were many adorable and creative entries!
On December 22nd, the voting began, and on Christmas Day, the winner was announced. The prize for the winner was a feature of their winning photo and a direct link to their Etsy shop here in my blog.

And the winner of the Cat Christmas Creation contest was Patti Haskins!

Here is Patti's photo of her winning entry

This is Patti's cute crocheted cat ornament!

In addition to featuring the photo of Patti's winning creation and a link to her Etsy shop - I asked Patti to tell me more about her work with art and crafts, her life, her pets, and what inspires her artistically. Read below to learn more about this sweet, talented and creative woman, as well as to meet Patti's super cute pets too...

"I’m a middle-aged artist with a graphic design day job. I live in Dallas, TX. My husband Mike and I live with two terrier mix dogs and six formerly alley cats, all rescues. Everything I make is inspired by living with these critters. A day doesn't go by that they don't make me smile.

Veronica

Therefore, I have a hard time making "serious" art. When you're surrounded by goofy creatures, goofiness seems to rule your creative output. . . or at least its that way for me. I hope that my work will make people smile the way my critters make me smile: the world needs more smiles.

Mickey

Betty and Ben

These days I have been creating critters using crochet and sewing fabric into stuffed critters or collaged wall hangings. I also manipulate the photos I shoot of these creations and turn them into digital collages. My day job entails computer graphics and I hate to waste all that knowledge on work alone.

Monty

June

I occasionally feel the need to paint. Someday I will return to sculpting critters from paper mache. I am as goofy as my critters and as easily distracted. You never know what will show up next in my shop."