90/90 QuirkynBerkeley---yayyyyyyy!

I love what QuirkynBerkeley does!!! I could put pictures of her work up here all night! Please go to her shop and check out all her great goodies! http://QuirkynBerkeley.etsy.com

QuirkynBerkeley says: Love paper. Love color. Love Berkeley. Love Etsy.
Beyond that, her style is eclectic and she loves to experiment. She gets completely absorbed in engineering her varied creations for hours. Each one is a new and unique production, made of treasures from her collection of paper and ephemera, transfigured into a single piece held together by a little glue, a lot of ideas, practice and work, and most of all, a great amount of joy. Some of her custom work can be viewed at http://www.picturetrail.com/photos/quirkynberkeley. Everything is made in a smoke free environment.

Her work is designed to be something that one person gives to another. She is lucky to have a craft that has a personal role in people's lives, and that can so easily become a part of the story of people's lives together. Gifts are imbued with all sorts of symbolic significance in every culture, and QuirkynBerkeley is always interested in the stories that people tell her about how they've used her cards -- who it was for, why they picked that particular card, why it touches them in some special way. Giving a handmade card is an act of intimacy since it is touched by very few hands-- the hands of the maker, the sender, the recipient. Being its creator allows her a role in a beautiful ritual.

It feels good to be the recipient of hand-written correspondence: no matter what the occasion -- there's a strong emotional connection during the moments of anticipation, and when it is held and read; the mystery of what's inside the envelope, wondering what prompted someone to stop everything else in their life and focus for a few minutes on writing this note. Your full attention for a few minutes is a very special kind of gift to another person, in a hand-written note that moment becomes frozen in time.

A handwritten note and its words can be touched by both sender and receiver and is always intimate; a handcrafted card is one that is created with these things in mind, and it is very likely the only one of its kind. Its maker sculpts the card from paper and other elements into a montage that is simultaneously an act of self-expression awaiting an act of overlaying it with new meaning in the giving from sender to receiver and used for one, specific moment in time.

QuirkynBerkeley makes beautiful things ---she also has a destash shop: http://quirkynberkeleytoo.etsy.com