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Lots of new posts, images, colors, crafts etc.
You missed all that and I have missed you!

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http://www.peonyandparakeet.com/blog

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New Site, New Folk Bag and Other News

My new website has been published and the blog has moved to the new address.
Check it out: www.peonyandparakeet.com

The location of the new blog:
www.peonyandparakeet.com/blog

And a new blog post is up!
Go to the new blog to see it:
New Site, New Folk Bag and Other News

Some Publicity!

My interview is published at the newest issue of Taito magazine. It is a Finnish magazine about crafts and art industry in Finland. My story and the photos of my work covered several pages. It feels great! Here are some of the pages.

My folk bags were included in the cover of the magazine!

Here's me showing how I save even the tiniest piece of paper!

Even if I enjoy tremendously making all the stuff I show here at my blog and sell at Etsy, it is hard work. I have a day job and all the creative work takes place at my spare time. That's why rewards like this interview feel really great!

After the Craft Fair

Digital scrapbooking layout using my own background papers. The template and few other elements are from Scrap Orchid collaboration kit All About Me, purchased from The Daily Digi.

The craft fair is over and I have had few days to take it easy. Like the layout says, it feels like an achievement. It was hard work to prepare the sales table but definitely worth it. I love talking with people about creativity and creating stuff. I really loved the experience!

Changes in Blogs

I have had a little crisis for a quite a long time with my blogs. I want to blog both in English and in Finnish. Using them in the same blog seemed like a good idea first, but really, it's not. I think it makes the blog difficult to read. I also want to blog about all the crafts I make, not only knitting or papercrafts. So I have deciced to reduce my three blogs into two. This one will be only in English but it will have not only paper projects but also textile arts. ou can find this blog using the short address www.peonyandparakeet.com. The other one is in finnish, called Pioni ja Parakiitti, and it will have the same concept of covering all areas of crafting that I do.

What about Kukkilintu? I have imported the blog posts of Kukkilintu blog here and labeled them for easy browsing. Kukkilintu blog will not be updated and I kindly ask you to follow this blog instead! I will continue Kukkilintu shop and Kukkilintu Moments newsletter. For clarity, I have changed my Twitter account to PeonyParakeet. If you follow me on Twitter, please follow PeonyParakeet in the future! I have also founded a new Etsy shop called Peony and Parakeet and will move Blythe doll clothing there. Folk bags, fabrics and cards will remain in Kukkilintu shop, at least for a while.

I hope this is not all too confusing. I really came to a point where maintaining three different blogs was too much. I also needed a unique name that I can register in most of the services and can be remembered easier.

With these paper flowers I wish you welcomed to Peony and Parakeet whether you are interested in knitting, spinning, papercrafting, dyeing, buying my crafts, even soap making as I reveal a secret: I have made my own soaps for many years and love it!

How to keep up?

During this year I have received several requests to send an email after I have listed new items at my store. I gladly send these emails! Over the months it has become clear to me that people who like to follow what I do and when I list my next folk bags should be able to subscribe these emails more freely. So I have set up a new service: Kukkilintu Moments email newsletter. You can subscribe and unsubscribe it whenever you want. I will post a short email after I list folk bags to my store or release new products. I will also include some personal touch in every newsletter. I excited about this! Feel free to subscribe Kukkilintu Moments!

I have a few new folk bags under work, here's a sneak peek of one of them!

Etsy.com meeting at Helsinki

See Etsy's blog for pictures from Etsy Europe's meeting at Helsinki!

http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/postcard-from-europe-3-7295/

Peony and Parakeet now at Bloglovin

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Kukkilintu in Bloglovin

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I am on Twitter

You can find me now on Twitter, my username is Kukkilintu. I am micro-blogging mainly about ... guess what!

Knitting!

Graduation!

I am sorry for being so lazy blogger and crafter this year. Finishing my industrial design studies has taken more of my spare time than I expected. But it's over now, I am now Bachelor of Culture and Arts and so ready to get back to my routines.

It has been great two years and I hope I will be able to make use of everything I have learned in the future. One of the best things have been that I have been able to combine both my previous degree in computing and this one by developing user-friendly online service concepts in my day job. But even more than that I wait for the new challenges in making textiles.

I feel very curious nowadays, there are so much to discover!