pardon me, do you have any Grey Coupon?

March. Already. The month of my birth, a time of renewal and slush. Although, there's no slush left round these parts. It's 71 degrees. In North Dakota. And I am pretty certain that this means the world is going to end. But what a nice, warm ending it will be!
Anyway, I really only have three things to say:

1. I have a coupon code good through Tuesday the 20th: Enter the code SPRINGY when checking out and get 25% off. Shop here.

2. I wish I liked blogging more so I didn't feel like such an asshole whenever I log onto blogger. (or is it "into" blogger?)
2a. I wish I had better grammar.
2b. My third wish is obviously for more wishes.

3. I made some new things:

2 x 2 calling cards printed on paper bag cardstock:

the chester copperpot.

the feathers.

the chevron.

the mums.

And two new greeting cards:

happy beardday.

the sorry I swear so much, mom.

Peace Out from your fave deadbeat blogger!

Januweary

I am Januweary. All I want to do is eat chili and take naps. So weary, in fact, that yesterday I totally screwed up the expiration date on my sale email. So if you're on my mailing list (or if you're not, like I care), here's the real deal on the sale:

25% off at Made by Michelle Brusegaard
using the code HERESACODE
expires Sunday, January 22nd at 11 pm CST

I dated the expiration in the email January 16th, imagine my horror! I would have sent out a correction email right away, but I had to go to college. Because I go to college now! (I'm auditing a 200 level printmaking course so I can learn how it's actually supposed to be done.) Fraught with anxiety, I headed out into the 6 below air to drive myself to college, only to find my durn car deader than a doornail. Because I didn't plug it in and my tiny honda fit runs on what appears to be a lawnmower battery. So I had to call my pops to give me a ride to school. Remember, I'm nearly 32. Here's what I did when I got to college:

It's the first state in a plexiglass drypoint print. I don't know what my deal is, but whenever I walk into an art classroom, I compulsively start drawing girls in dresses.

Since my car was on sabbatical all day and night, I stayed in and printed some scarves in new print/color combinations:

Cranberry with Orange Scroll

Steel Blue with Navy Doilies

Athletic Blue with White Peacock Feathers

And how about that sweet new backdrop fabric?!

What a fantastic combination of flowy organicness, houndstooth, and poppin' 70's color! I got it at the St Paul Antique Mall a few weeks ago.

In closing, I present:

Animal passed out next to his favorite catnip casette: Meowtallica.

valentoony

oh geeeez....it's 2012. The year the world's gonna end. Already! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, things of world ending magnitude always seem to sneak up. Like Valentine's Day. Prepare yourself!

This valentine/pretty much anytime you want to say something nice to someone card features a line from one of my favorite lovey movies evah: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:

You can get it here.
Next up:

I'm ape! If you've never called a significant other "monkey," you might just be from another planet (not the planet of the apes). I got the molded plastic ape featured above on a recent trip to the como zoo in st. paul, where they have this awesome souvenir making relic :

So cool! It makes the whole primate building stink like melting crayons though. That is just the kind of human behavior that is going to get us overthrown by the monkeys.
You can get this card in a set of 10 little guys, or a single, if you only have one monkey in your life.

Last on the new valentine horizon: Sometimes its hard to use your real voice to tell someone you love them. Being sincere is tricky. Give me something serious to say and I turn into a Cockney barmaid. So pretend you have bad grammar, let your jaw go a little slack, and say "I done fell in love with you." Because that's what being a mature adult is all about.
Get it heresauce. And more valentines are available herechips.

Here's hoping this meager post gets me back in the blogging saddle. In the meantime, if any of you guys are savvy to instagram, you should find me over there (@madebymb). Communicating with photos is sooo my style!

Like sometimes I just want to post a photo of a well-tiled floor, no questions asked. Gawd, I'm so mysterious!

enter tumbleweed

hey! it's me, Lazybones McGee. Well, blog lazy anyway. But, I did write something for someone else's blog, so if you're jonesin' for a little shot of michelle, follow this link over to Colette Paperie's blog.
And here's a photo for your troubles:

My niece in a tree:)

illume

So last year at No Coast Craft-o-Rama, I met a very nice lady from Illume Candles. I was super excited when she said they'd like to use some of my designs on their candles! You are probably familiar with them even if you think you're not--they sell them at boutique-ish places like Patina and larger awesome stores like Anthropologie. These boho jars are my favorite:

They chose two of my designs-first up, a classic mbmb motif-the onions!

(barnes and noble)-mini tin $7.95

twilight vanilla reed diffuser-$30

twilight vanilla boxed glass candle-$30

And just for fun, here's an onion-y thing that I made:

royal blue onion scarf-$25

They also used my henna brocade design, shown in the background of this card from my shop:

wedding card-$3.25

mulled wine diffuser-$30


(barnes and noble) mini tin-$8

boxed glass candle-$30

Anywho, I couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out. I am huffing the twilight vanilla as I type...it's SO intoxicating!

sup

well, hello! first up: a coupon code that expires at midnight, september 12th, 2011! 20% off using the code FALLINLOVE at michellebrusegaard.etsy.com. Mmmmk?

second up: that's all I got. I've been so busy being summery...I need to go make a bunch of stuff now!

Announcing the North by Midwest Craft Spectacular!

Yeah! Some lady friends and I are planning grand forks' first ever indie craft fair! It's going to be Saturday, November 19th, 2011. Applications are due September 1st, you can apply here.
Wahoooooo!
And now for some pictures of what I've been up to:

traipsing about the north dakota countryside, one stumbles upon this sign when turning off for the lil' town of larimore. You see, trees don't just grow naturally here....so we have to plant them so stuff doesn't blow away. I just didn't know we were setting any world records!

stock kitty snuggle photo. I have a lot of these, because let's face it, I do a lot of kitty snuggling. There's one sitting on me right now while I type. Which is why I am even blogging in the first place, because I can't get up to put paper in the printer when a cat is sitting on me, lest I disturb the cat. Anyway, sometimes I get trapped under one of them with only my phone, and taking close up photos of their cute heads is all I can do to pass the time until they've had their way with me fully.

Adam Kemp's art show in a barn. I really want the little calf on yellow.

lovely gardens at the RR Angus farm.

view from the farm. In between those two tress, you can see the outline of the ND Mill, which I believe is the tallest building in North Dakota. It looks small, I know....

black leather feather earrings! screen printed in silver. Bonus side note: I made them out of a leather duster I bought at a rummage sale.

Another rummage sale find: A vintage romance story magazine. Love! And has made excellent collage materials for these two new paintings:

the story titles make the best painting titles. that one is: HE REFUSED TO MARRY ME!

HERS WAS A SUSPICIOUS LOVE!

And then I made some more feather earrings in different colors:

tomato red

and turquoise.
then a new earring print:

totem

yahoo! now back to work:)