Teamwork

I'm so excited, my friend Dave from Sawdust Explosion sold his first item on Etsy this week! Dave makes beautiful pen and pencil sets (as well as MANY other awesome wood working items)! Each set is made completely by hand!

His Bamboo Set was the first to sell and the buyer asked if he does engraving. Lucky for him, he knows someone with a laser engraver...wink, wink :)

We ran a few test pieces and decided on the best format for the engraving...it turned out great! I can't wait to hear how much the buyer loves the pen and pencil set! She bought them for a friend who writes music, so we know they'll get a lot of use :)

Dave and I plan to work together on a lot more projects. He just built an awesome CNC router from the ground up! Check out the video on his blog! I already have several items on order! And I hope he continues to sell more items on Etsy as well...I love engraving new things :)

Team Work

As the old saying goes...Two Heads Are Better Than One :) This can be even more true when it comes to crafty endeavors. Working as a team, you can get more ideas flowing and have access to tools and materials that you wouldn't have on your own.

I recently had the pleasure of teaming up with Erika of ArtfulRising to create some beautiful Art Journals! She contacted me about engraving some wood covers for her to put her awesome art journal pages in.

We worked out the sizes and styles and got to work. I was amazed when Erika showed me the finished product! She transformed by covers into works of art!

And I love that she came up with the idea to put both of our shop names on the back of the journals. It is engraved for all to see that this masterpiece was the result of Team Work :)