OK, so last week left me much more behind then I thought...all the new goodies I have ready to post and the Manic Monday Newsletter are all pushed to next Monday...sorry. Although the good news is that the red are all coming back then too, yay!
The exciting news is that so far today I have found out that Manic Trout is in Seventeen Magazine (April 2008), Venus Zine (Spring 2008), Justine Magazine (February/March 2008) and Figure Magazine (March/April 2008)...how awesome is that?
OK, this is for the blogger readers, so all you myspace blog reads, you'll have to head on over to to see what the fuss is all about...
I have been adding to my again recently...so far its just stuff you can find at Manic Trout, but I tend to shop on Etsy a lot, especially for photos...so I was fooling around with the tool that makes the instant banners from your shop and I clicked on the option to make one up from a selection of my favorites...and needless to say I will have all of these asap...I have one already on its way and in the mail...but the set as a whole made me swoon....I wonder if the set changes if the items are purchased (eta: I have bought all 5 photos...and figured out how to keep them in the banner!)? Well this may be a time sensitive post, but what a beautiful thing it was for those minutes...Hopefully you still see the five flowers in the right hand column...
I was tagged the other day by the fabulous blog although I have not finished my post on this, I have however realized how fun random facts are. I have thus decided that I will begin to share random facts with you about Manic Trout, and sometimes about me.
So first off, I thought I would introduce you to some of the fun that I have with the real behind the scenes stuff...naming all of my designs. I once upon a time would just make up a name for each design and then picked a girls name for each color/style randomly...well, I really quickly started to come up with some stupid names, and I exhausted my resources for girls names as well. (some of these early made up names are still existent, I am embarrassed to say...i.e...the very original Bottle Cap Necklace) So I knew I had to look else where...
You must be chomping at the bit in anticipation right now...waiting to find out where I come up with all of these bizarre names! Well all of the designs names are songs, some make obvious sense and some just work in my complicated mind...but they are all song names. The Sweetest Thing Earrings are named for the Lauryn Hill song.
The names of each color/style I get from a web site that has lists and lists of names...so I pick a theme for each piece...the Necklaces which are inspired by Japanese fishing balls have Japanese names.
The have Gypsy names...and the meaning of the names usually plays in too... which is the name of a diminuitive pair of flower earrings, means small... which is a pair of tiny pink leaf earrings, means leaf. which are bright orange earrings that look like gummy roses, means joy and happiness and the very pretty earrings which are shaped like a pink lily means beautiful one.
I also have some silly and fun names...the are all named after Super Villianesses! So you can find your inner bad girl and wear her name with pride!
Also fun to note is that the are named named after the women with the largest and best jewelry collections throughout history...Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Onassis, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford, Ava Gardner and Theda Bara to name a few.
In case you were wondering...the paintings have name themes too...they are named and I am sure influenced in both tiny and huge ways by the titles of books I am reading when I paint them...I will admit that I have bought and read books because I thought the titles were so good to work with.
I hope you enjoyed these random facts about Manic Trout!
