Ashley Anna Brown / Fern Animals

YAY!

I have already received lots of custom order requests, and I am really excited about all of them! Everyone seems to be digging deep into the archives and asking for animals that I haven't made in months, some even well over a year! Thank you so much! I am going to get started right away!

Do me a favor... and I'll make you something

So, I don't like to ever talk about money issues on here because, well, who wants to here about bills and such? But, Justin and I finally found the most perfect apartment in Northampton, and can move in as soon as two weeks from now! The glitch is that we need some more money to pay for it. So here's what I am thinking...

I am finally going to accept custom orders again! For two weeks only! Email me your request, we'll discuss it back and forth a bit to make sure we've got it right, I'll send you an invoice, you'll pay, and I'll mail out your new special little one within two weeks. What do you think? Any kind of animal you want, any color, any material combination, you name it, I'll make it (within some kind of reason of course - please don't ask me to make a specific animal that I have never made before - like a giraffe or elephant - this would take much longer than two weeks to design and get right.)

Okay. So that's that. You think about it, look through my archives of animals that I have previously made, send me an email, and we'll get started! ashleyannabrown(a)gmail.com.


This is a commission order I completed back in January, just as an example.

Ribbons and Bows

I've been working on some new little animals this week and will be posting lots of cute little ones tomorrow afternoon. There will be at least one fawn/lamb (the white one pictured), suits with collars and little bows, and even some antlers and beards!  

Here are three bird bodies, awaiting their wings and beaks and legs. They will be there, too! And some more little strawberries! It is an absolutely beautiful day here today - bright blue skies over a green green mountain. I hope you have managed to get outside at least a little today. I kept finding excuses for myself to go out for little walks. My Etsy shop post will be tomorrow, Friday July 11th at 2pm EST. See you there!

Random ramblings (and a shop update!)

One week until Renegade! Yikes! I have been sewing as much as possible, and am not even close to being done yet. I think I have only about twenty five animals fully completed, and about ten others in various stages of being finished. Last year I brought around seventy five animals to Brooklyn with me, but that's just not going to happen this year! Oh well... I have been planning out my display in my head for weeks, and hopefully this weekend I will have a chance to do a practice set up. Then I'll have to package up my new card sets, press some buttons and magnets, and make some table signs. Plus more sewing, of course. So much to do, so little time! Always! 

I've been working at home a lot these past couple of weeks, and it's been great to get to spend lots of time with my cuddly kitty, Kitchen. Justin and I have been going to a local video store on Wednesdays (dollar night!) and renting five or six films at a time. I saw Rosemary's Baby for the first time and I can't stop thinking about it. I love their apartment! All white and yellow. We are currently apartment searching (again!) and I keep daydreaming about our new place and making it look like Rosemary and Guys place (minus the Castevets, of course). I can't wait. We have moved a lot over the past couple of years, and I really need this next place to be somewhere we'll stay for a while. I want to actually put curtains up. For some reason, if I am uncertain about an apartment, I can't ever seem to settle on curtains. And I feel like it is curtains that make a room feel more cozy and homey. Needless to say, the apartment we are in now has TEN curtain-less windows. 

Other movies I watched recently, while sewing up little Fern Animals: The Graduate, The Birds, Benny and Joon, Vertigo, Goodwill Hunting, Mommy Dearest, and The Stepford Wives (the original). Then a few episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld here and there. 

So, I probably shouldn't talk about how few animals I have for the craft fair and then list some of them on Etsy, but... that's what I am going to do tomorrow. Only two or three, though. I have been missing my regular weekly updates, so I'll make one tomorrow evening around 5 or 6pm est. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I have to work at the UPS store tomorrow, and I'm not sure how much time I'll need to photograph and list the animals when I get home. I can't even decide yet which ones I will post, so you'll just have to stop in to see! 

It's supposed to be in the nineties this weekend! I hope everyone enjoys the weather! See you tomorrow evening.

Small shop post today!

Today, Sunday May 25th at 1pm EST.

Tonight!

Teeny tiny shop post! 6:30 pm EST!

Shop Post Time Today:

I will be posting two or three or, who knows, maybe even four (!) new animals in my shop today. There will be spring colors, hooded suits and beards! 3:00 pm EST.

In my shop today:

This weeks updates, and a new postcard possibility

This week my schedule is a little all over the place, so, after going back and forth trying to decide what day and time would be best for a shop update, I decided I wouldn't have an official one this week. I will be making new animals, though, I already have made some new ones. I'll just be posting them as I finish them. Today I listed three new ones, and tomorrow I will hopefully have two or three others.

I wanted to get a chance to take the animals that were in my shop last Friday outside for a photo shoot before shipping them off this morning, but it's been raining, pouring! Now, of course, the sun has come out. Oh well! There were some good ones in that post, though, some new favorites. I need to be better about appreciating and documenting each animal fully before sending it off to its new home. I miss them all so much!

The photograph above is from a little outing I took some animals on a couple weeks ago, when the sun was shining bright. I am working on figuring out which images would work nice for a new spring postcard set. This is one of my favorites from the shoot.

Well, I need to get back to sewing now, but please keep checking in with my shop and my Flickr. I'll be posting periodically.

For Friday:

In my Etsy shop, Friday April 25th at 4 pm EST. See you there!