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luluvilliage has kindly offered 2 fairy princess cards with envelopes to the winner of this weeks Blog Contest, All you need to do to enter is post your favorite item from her shop. Sunday june 8th The winner will be posted. Good Luck all!
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Getting To Know The textured luluvillage ...

My shop is luluvillage, it was named (with the help of my kids) after an imaginary village of LULU people where everyone does what makes them happy and happiness makes the world go round!

A little about the seller

Name (and any aliases you have): Luluvillage

Hobbies (or just random interests): I love painting, oils are my favorites. I adore glass and smalti, both of which I use to create mosaics. Glass is a fantastic medium, highly underutilized: light travels differently depending upon the specific intensity of color, changing the look and feel of the piece. Smalti is a fantastic handmade glass from Italy, its surface is textured unlike the regular stained glass, therefore it reflects glass unpredictably creating wonderful textures.

Tell me about yourself? I am a collector of colors and textures, whenever I travel I bring some back; I am an artist and writer, with a strong belief that creativity is a flow of energy, which may be blocked but never stopped. I believe that creative expression is to be encouraged and protected. I am a mother of two little people whose boundless creativity is an inspiration for mine.

Other etsy shops luluvillage loves:

I love the flow of expression of Heidi Burton

CozyMoments is a fantastic body shop

and I am moved by the beauty of the stone vessels of the TwoBeans

to name just a few.

A little about the Store

How long have you been on etsy? I have opened an etsy shop in November 2007, but did not get serious about it until a couple of months ago.

What exactly do you do (What do you make?) As a relative newbie, I am going in several directions: prints of my original artwork, custom mosaics and mixed media items like mirrors, frames and handmade cards.

How did you first pick up your craft? I've always been inclined to do something that involved small object manipulation. However, overtime it's the universal aspect of creativity that attracted me most: I feel that all of us are like the small parts comprising a whole, along the lines of small glass pieces falling into place to form a mosaic image.

Favorite thing about it: Over the years, I feel my work has acquired a quiet soulful aspect to it, that I treasure most. I am less concerned with the final form than with the initial impulse to create: the process of putting something new together makes me feel alive, privy to something new that has not existed until I touched it with my hands.

Any inspirations? Traveling is my well of inspiration: I take hundreds of pictures in an attempt to absorb the feel of the places, their textures, their moods. I am also big on movies- they provide a change in perspective, and, therefore, a new view point.

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