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Looking for the perfect holiday gift and want to support small and handmade businesses? We got you covered! Here's our top 13 favorite gifts for the holidays this year. Mostly animals and food stuff, because you know, animals and food. 

Hey guys! I'm now on Patreon! ⁠ Patreon is a monthly subscription site where you can get exclusive fun monthly art goodies AND support my artwork and dream projects. ⁠ I'll be mailing out fun stickers, art prints, pins and more every month, and depending on your contribution level you can get goodie bags mailed to your door every month, secret behind the scenes posts about me, art sneak peeks, digital downloads, exclusive coupons, give feedback, and more. ⁠ There are fun options for as little as $1/month, and you can cancel or change your contribution level at any time.  It's...

One thing that's so important to us is being as eco-friendly as we can in our business, and we're always looking for where we can make improvements in our materials and process. We've been looking for a good eco-friendly mailer for some time and we finally found a good one that we'll be switching to! Our new kraft mailer that we'll soon begin shipping all our enamel pins and buttons with is made from 100% eco friendly recycled materials and is fully recyclable as well.  Our cards are eco friendly, too! They're now printed with organic soy inks and printed on FSC certified/recycled stock,...

Our latest shop update is all about cards!  We've been loving houseplants so we've got a new happy monstera leaf friendship card in the shop. I don't have a monstera plant just yet, but I want one! I always swear I won't buy a new plant everytime I head to the nursery since I have so many, but then I usually can't help it and end up taking home a new plant... whoops!! Who's with me on that one? We've also got a new churro birthday card in, I really enjoyed drawing these happy churros. We always love getting the churro at Disneyland, and while...

We finally got the shop all updated with a few new extras from CatCon! I've just added 6 new art prints, and 9 new button designs. Whew!   We had a great time vending at CatCon and we hope to do it again next year, and it's always great to be among so many cat lovers! We got to share a booth with my friend & talented artist Heather Soodak, check out her work at her website. Check out all the new cat stuff in our new releases section!      Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to hear about new products...

We recently got a chance to visit the rare corpse flower at CSULB in Long Beach! If you haven't heard about this giant flower, it only blooms once every 7-15 years, and then when it blooms it only stays open for about a day. Sometimes even less!  And.. it stinks! It smells awful, plus we were there on a cold day and we were told it smells much worse when it's warm out. I think we lucked out a little bit on that. Here's a few pics of it below, and make sure you're following us on Instagram for more adventures!...

 My art process actually varies quite a lot, and a lot of the time I don't start with a sketch at all and just work straight in Illustrator. In this case though, I had this idea while sketching up some new ideas for CatCon, so I started with this little sketch.  I was too lazy to use my scanner (yep) so I just took a photo of it with my phone instead and then started drawing over it in Illustrator. I generally use a lot of circles and basic shapes first, then combine them and edit them with the pathfinder and pen...

You guys, it's our Etsyversary today!We started this shop 5 years ago today, as a tiny side gig for my day job. It's grown so much since then, and it's now my full time job! Running a business has been harder than I thought in a lot of ways, since as business owners we have to wear so many hats (marketer, illustrator, customer service, bookkeeping, etc) so I've learned a ton, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love making new products and sending them out into the world, and I love being my own boss. We also just...

We're gonna be at CatCon at the Pasadena Convention Center on June 29 & 30!We'll be selling cat themed cards, gifts, enamel pins & buttons, and we'll be bringing a bunch of new cat stuff we've been working hard on especially for the event, like this new abraCATdabra cat crystal ball enamel pin design.We'll be sharing a booth with Heather Soodak Art and Heather will be selling her amazing portraits of you as a cat, plus prints, cards and more!We're super excited to go because we rarely get time to do events, so we're looking forward to seeing you all. Come out and say hi! 😺...