Featured on Etsystalker!!!

My Three Little Chicks have been featured on ETSYSTALKER in a post featuring Easter items!!!

I'm soooooo happy!!!

Zazzle Adventure?! & New Etsy Mini Mini Journals

I'm very curious, I know. :)
Yesterday I was browsing throught my favorite blogs, and I saw this Zazzle Ad. I promptly clicked and entered a wonderful world!!
I started uploading some of my drawings and creating some objects!! Wow! That's fun!!
And the personalized POSTAGE STAMPS? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!! I had received an ATC envelope with a couple of Zazzle stamps. It's a pity I live in Italy, I would have bought tons!!
Here is what I made tonight (if you scroll down at the end of this page, you'll find a slide of my Zazzle):

Black Chicky by BlackPumpkin
Browse other Chick Postage

Bicefalos Bag by BlackPumpkin
Make a photo bag on Zazzle

And for my Etsy Shop, here are these mini mini weird journals, made using my "Family Portraits" ACEOs.
Somethin different from the usual matchbook notebooks. :)

My Ladies!!

Etsy Treasuryies: HELP JAPAN & ITALY-EUROPE FOR JAPAN

Again for Japan & Owls Cards

All available @ my Etsy Shop

Japan Rescue: ZODIAC Small Journal @Etsy

During the last few days I've been thinking of what I could do to help the Japan Cause.

Yesterday I had this idea: I put on sale my small Zodiac Journals and will donate 50% of purchase to a Japan helping group.

If you want to help me donate, please visit my ETSY SHOP and purchase one of my journals.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ITALY: Featured Item

Check out this wonderful "hommage" to the 150th Italian Anniversary by my Etsy friends GUFOBARDO and SATYRICON LAB

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ITALY!!!

Bookmarks!!

I LOVE reading and my bookshelf is always full of bookmarks, made by me or bought from others.

Lately I've been working at a new drawing project called "FAMILY PORTRAITS" (yes, the one of the cards I showed you some posts ago... eheheh).

I made some bigger drawings that I will put on my sitting room walls, and I thought that they would be nice bookmarks, too.

So, here they are in my Etsy Shop :

Healing Thoughts for Japan & ATCs Collections

Today, when I read and watched the news about Japan earthqake and tsunami I remembered L'Aquila (Abruzzi) earthquake of 2009. And today, in L'Aquila, the earth trembled again for a moment....

Join me and send HEALING THOUGHTS to Japan (and Italy and all places in need).

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You also know that during the last three months I've been trading Artist Trading Cards.

I bought a cards book and put together all the cards I have received so far.

THANKS TO ALL THE KIND PEOPLE WHO TRADED (and still trade) WITH ME!!

A Game with my Nephews...

... ended up into creating a huge series of Family Portraits.

We enjoyed trying to look for similarities in our real family. :)

I've also made three would-be-bookmarks, one for each of my nephews (but I was thinking of making one for my mother, too. She's a greey bookworm as I am).

Here are some of the portraits and  the bookmarks.

150th Anniversary of Italian Unity

On March 17th 2011 Italy will celebrate its 150th Anniversary.

Here is my tribute:

Doodling on Vintage Books - Part 2

Here is what came out when I decided to cut my doodled vintage page.

ATCs!!!!

Endometriosis

I know I've been away from my blog for quite a few days.

In part it was due to my renewed interest in my Etsy Shop, but I also had to take care of my health.

Last year I had to undergo a sudden surgery because I was diagnosed with 4th level ENDOMETRIOSIS (Wikipedia link) and a big ovary cyst.

They made me a Cesarean Cut and took away my left ovary.

The silly thing is that I have been having major pains during the last 15 years, and the doctors always told me it was backpain or stress.....

I then found out that Endometriosis shows a lot of various symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, back pain, headaches, depression etc. I suffered from the whole long list!! And nobody ever told me about this condition!!
After surgery I spent 10 wonderful months without pain (only my chronic migraines). It seemed a miracle!
But in Decembre the whole thing started again...
Endometriosis has no cure. You can only use hormones to control it.
During the last 2 weeks I had to make my recurrent check-ups and they found a new cell of 2 centimetres inside my uterus.
The pain started again, though not as bad as before surgery, but my fear was that of a new Cesarean!
Luckily, my doctor suggested me to try one year of pill hormones, just to see if the cell doesn't grow.
PHEW!!! I'm relieved now! Last year's was my first surgery ever!! I'm not so eager to repeat the experience! :))
I just wanted to share my experience with my doodler friends, because you have been very important since I started this blog, and doodling has been a sort of painkiller during the last tough weeks.
THANK YOU ALL!!