I love my customers :)

I haven't had a chance to update my "In Action" page yet but I couldn't resist sharing these with you. One of my best customers sent me these photos from the holiday season/ her birthday. Thanks Juls you're awesome! 

New Arrivals

In case you haven't seen them yet here they are some jewellery and some paper goods available at thetinyfig.com

Out with the old and in with the new!

The new website is live just in time for the new year! Yay!

Over the past 6 weeks or so I have worked very hard to create a brand new website. While the old one did it's job there were a lot of issues that I wasn't happy with because I was in a hurry to get it done and rushed through the process. Now that I've taken the time to consider what went wrong the first time, I'm very happy to say that the new one is 10x better than it was before! I have switched from Mals E-cart to Paypal Cart and can finally stop worrying about selling inventory I don't have!

I've uploaded a few screen shots of the new website highlighting all the changes and updates. You'll notice that there is a brand new Printables section that I plan to fill up starting in the new year. You can click to zoom and see all the new and updated features.

The shop banner:

Individual category page:

Individual item page:

I hope you stop by and browse around! I'd love to get your feedback!

Website Re-launch Monday Dec 28th.

It's about time! I am currently putting the final touches on my website. I am super excited and want to show you all right now but there are just a few minor details that need to be fixed and a few more photos to take. I will have new Valentine's Day paper goodies and some new acrylic jewelry available as well so be sure to drop by after 12pm PST on Monday Dec 28th for those! http://thetinyfig.com
Here's a preview:

Look what santa brought!

Santa a.k.a Dad :) Oh... I can't wait to try out some of Ree's recipes!!!

Merry Christmas!

My tree and a few vintage ornaments. Seriously they're older than I am.Except for the last one hehe I made that when I was 10 or 11 at a school holiday craft event.

I am slowly but surely making my way

through the massive cookie/candy recipes I keep printing out. lol

Here is a recipe for icebox cookies that I would recommend trying. They're from the Martha Stewart site so obviously they are good! It's a basic dough that can be frozen and made a gazillion different ways. Here's the link to ideas for different variations. I made the thumbprint ones with half the dough and then for the other half I mixed in some cranberries, made a log and rolled the log in chopped almond slivers. Both variations were very good!

All in One Cookie Dough
Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)

Directions

1. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar, and salt until light and fluffy. Add yolks, one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition. Add vanilla. With mixer on low, add flour; mix just until combined. Wrap in plastic; chill until firm, about 1 hour. To make ahead: Refrigerate up to 2 weeks, or freeze up to 3 months.
2. Citrus or Spice: Whisk 1 tablespoon grated lemon, lime, or orange zest (or a combination), or 1 tablespoon pumpkin-pie spice into the flour before adding it to the butter mixture.

Website Update

The website is coming along nicely at this point. I know I haven't been updating the blog much lately but that is because I haven't been feeling 100% and because I've been busy busy with all the projects I am working on for early 2010.  The website should be up and running *fingers crossed* next week. There were a lot of things I wish I did the first time around that I skipped because I was in a such a rush to have it completed. Well, that wont happen this time because over the past 8 months I have taken lots of notes and have very patiently over the last few weeks been upgrading and implementing those things into the new site. Anyways, the point of this post is because I wanted to share with you the new "In Action" page which is basically a fan photo page. If you've got any photos that you haven't sent me yet and don't mind being include please email them to me at thetinyfig@hotmail.com

Good Morning!

Just wanted to let you know that the Etsy shop is re-opened and that the website is still down for reno's here's a quick peek at the new homepage. :D I just need a few more days to get everything up and running! It's 10x better than it was before!

Shop is temporarily closed

I've been super tired the last few days so I've closed up my etsy and webshop and am taking a few days off. Hopefully I'll be reopened bright and early on Monday :)

I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner!

I have spent most of this week re-photographing my items and making sure that things are clean, crisp and bright. One thing I discovered was that my scanner is awesome for doing photos of my paper goodies. I didn't even tweek any of these photos. I just cropped and resized. If you've got a scanner you should give it a whirl!

Restocked!

These cuties have been out of stock for a while but they are back and here to stay!