Hey everyone!

Well I've kept you all in the dark long enough...but since I'm leaving tomorrow I guess it's about time I got the news out. Tomorrow I'm moving to Bangkok...yes...Thailand. At the moment the plan is to stay for around 3 months but it could be less or more depending on how things go over there and all that jazz.

I'll be moving into an apartment with my two bestest friends who are both attending university there...should be fun! I'm extremely nervous and am having anxiety about moving but I'm also excited and trying to stay hopeful and optimistic. I don't know when the internet will be hooked up in our apartment, supposedly a few days, so I may be offline for a bit.

Tiny Cravings may take a turn in some new directions in the near future depending on my resources while I'm in Thailand. Hopefully I'll still have great stuff to show you guys though. Hope everyone is doing well...and stay in touch! PLEASE! (I don't want to feel like I've dropped off the end of the earth lol)

(OH! And my next kiriban is at 100k, and it will be a big one. I know that's a long way away, but that's kinda the point! So more info on that later.)

Much Love,
Jeanine

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Hey guys!

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone real quick for the overwhelming and awesome support that you have all given in regards to my last journal entry about copycats and frenimies. I guess alot of you can really relate, or are at least sympathetic, and that pretty awesome.

I want to assure you guys that I'm not going to stop posting stuff here, I do like DA, and I like all the wonderful people here, I'm just going to be ALOT more careful of what I do post. And I suggest to anyone who doesn't want their designs ripped/copied/etc. to think twice about what they post here. I'll still be posting my fun new designs and artwork and such, but I won't be posting all my hottest new items for sale, as they go up for sale. I'll probably post them after they've already been up on my website for awhile. And if you want to stay up to date with my newest stuff, join my newsletter. You can do so by visiting my website: [link]

Anyways! Holy crap! It's FALL!!!

LOVE FALL

I am SO THRILLED because this Halloween I'm going to be vending at a Halloween Party/Ball, and will be spending most of October preparing kick ass Halloween/Fall/Holiday items to sell. Everything that doesn't sell at the event will be up for sale on my etsy afterwards. I'll send around a newsletter about that and keep updates on my website and blog, but for now my online website is closed down. WOO HOO!!

Why am I so excited about that? Well I'm only just now caught up with the INSANE amount of orders that I had this summer and now I can start making WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT. *faints* ...you guys have no idea how happy this makes me lol. I mean, doing custom items is great and all, but I'm ready to say screw it, and stay making what I WANT...FROM NOW ON! So when Tiny Cravings goes back online after October, there will be big changes. I say again, WOO HOO!! LOL. No more clay slave here girls. It's time to unleash the artist within.

Alrighty, I'll try to have some new devs to post...sometime in the near future. My Halloween costume is TOTALLY HOT, so I hope to have lots of pics of me in costume, and of my table and friends at the Ball. I'm also going to see Cirque du Soleil next Friday and am totally excited!! I can't wait!

Hope all of you are rockin and enjoying the gorgeous weather. Cheers!

(OH! And my next kiriban is at 100k, and it will be a big one. I know that's a long way away, but that's kinda the point! So more info on that later.)

Much Love,
Jeanine

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Doesn't it seem like some people try to be particularly nice to you, so they hope you won't notice, or get pissed off when they copy your designs? One of my good friends and fellow clay artisans who basically started the scented mini food craze (and it's funny that people think we should be enemies or something *rolls eyes*) ...she tells me she had to put up with the same bullshit. Well I'm sick of it. Seriously. I'm over it. I doubt I'll be posting many more of my new designs on here.

I'm tired of dealing with "frenemies" ...fake friends...which is what most of them sadly are. I hate that it has to be this way, but whatever. It's just not worth it.

Anyways, I've been super busy lately and I have way too many orders than I can already handle, so I'm not complaining about business. Just...as Speed would say "get that weak shit off my track..." lol...seriously...you're not fooling anybody...

Later yo!

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Well things on DA have changed for me the past several months. I obviously still enjoy the place or I wouldn't come around so much or be so active, however alot of the fun and wonder has quickly dissolved. And what's funny, the more page views I get, the less friends I have. I think that people assume that once you've gotten a certain amount of page views or something that they don't need to be so nice anymore. Which is disappointing. And I've only recently passed 50k, so I can imagine it only gets worse.

But I want to change that! I want the fun back, and I want my DA and my gallery to be a place of fun, frivolity, and inspiration. Therefore I'm going to start having these mini-contests. Or, rather...more like games. Time willing, I plan to do this quite regularly.

One of these mini-games is similar to the I Spy books, where I hide a few things within a large image and the first person to find all of them...take a screen shot, circle them, upload it to your scraps or some image hosting site, and add a link to it in the comments for that deviation wins! No notes, as I have trouble keeping track of notes on DA for some reason.

Another mini-game will be similar, where I will change something...possibly minor, possibly major...and the first person to find what is different wins. For this you need only to leave a comment with a description of what I changed.

Another mini-game I plan on doing will be to show you some images of real food, and polymer clay food. It would be a series, and the first person to guess all of them correctly, whether it is real or fake...wins.

I hope you guys have fun with this. I have lots more mini-games/contests planned I hope you guys like those as well. Some of them will be alot easier than others, and some of them will have better prizes than others. Something simple like this, you just get a feature in my journal (which is actually a pretty damn nice prize *wink*), for harder ones that I have planned you might win a 1 month sub or even a free charm! You'll have to wait and see and always be paying attention to what I've got going on.

So without further ado, I present the first mini-game...a Fall Photo Hunt!!!



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I've been wanting to feature some deviants for awhile now, but as there are sadly only 24 hours in a day...it just hasn't been possible. There are many more I'd like to feature, and if you want a feature, leave a comment and I'll add you to the list for my next one.

I've gone through and picked out my 3 faves (or nearly) from the galleries of some of my favorite and lesser known deviants. These are all deviants with UNDER 50K PAGE VIEWS. I'm featuring them cause I think they deserve it!!

I totally love her purses and I've never seen duct tape art before...


Big gallery, major talent, love the originality...*want*


Featuring her since she won my contest and is brilliant, so go give her some love...


One of my favorite lesser-known DA artists, also won one of my contests and is uber talented at drawing/painting girls...


Just discovered this guy not long ago and already I'm a major fan, his gallery is small but each piece is worth a look!


Another new discovery, amazing HP fan art, lots of emotion...had me laughing out loud at some pieces while others gave me goosebumps...


This gallery is a must see...Cheese Chase had me cracking up...


She has a fantastic eye for amazing yummy macro photography...


Amazing what he can do with paper! *jaw drop*


I just adore her clay HP sculptures and think her work is so totally under appreciated, so go and check out her gallery...


I'm astounded she isn't more popular, her work is amazing...


Gotta give some love to my extremely talented buddy Lomes...


Check out her gallery, really gorgeous and unique jewelry designs...


I really like this artist, check out her gallery...


Her gallery is full of hidden gems...don't miss out!


Talented with photomanips and graphic design, definitely an up and coming artist to keep your eye on!


Go check out her gallery if you're ever feeling blue or missing your childhood...it'll cheer you right up, very talented.


Another new discovery...love her simple yet powerful use/disuse of color


Just discovered this guy (probably along with everyone else after seeing his DD)...truly amazing stuff in his gallery, go look...


Her pieces are simply quite stunning, I'll let her gallery speak for itself!



Ok so I just looked at all my friends that I still want to feature and about had a heart attack, so that's all for now lol...

TO BE CONTINUED!!...

(now...uh...go feature me...cause er...you know you wanna! yeah? )

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