we chirp!

Some exciting things going on here today. Seriously though, no really.
2 new hi tree "fanny packs" fresh of the sewing machine. woot!
2 new styles of totes. and let me just take a second to say that clearly my creativity has been taking me in some new directions lately and i have been enjoying it very much. i cant wait to see what happens next.



This Saturday night is the North East Los Angeles art walk! That means my studio will be wide open for all to come in. The show going up in the gallery is looking really great! and also in the annex my good buddy Joseph Botello is having a solo show, 100 Faces.
We will be open from 7 to 10pm @ 131 N. ave 50 in Highland Park 90042




ALSO, and that is a big also, We Chirp is doing a hi tree giveaway this week. Head on over there and see what you have to do to get a cute little bitty maple tree. so sweet and squishy.

we have a giveaway winner!

the winner of the lovely little oak leaf earrings is Sari P! congrats!
I have to apologize for posting the winner much later in the day than i usually do, today was a busy day!
Sari, please email me your address! tina@hitree.com

isnt the little humming bird so sweet?! he lives outside my studio. he is just a baby!

hard decisions....

So today, i made this, with the intention of putting it in my etsy shop. and, well. i put it on to take pictures and take it for a test drive and well, after about 30 seconds of thought, i decided that the only thing there was left to was to keep it on.... forever.
Im keeping it. but i am so excited about it and i really wanted to share it! so here it is!

!!!!! dont forget about the giveaway going on down below in the previous post!

i feel a giveaway coming on....

well hello,
how are you? good? oh, im so glad to hear that. I am doing quite well myself. did you see the laist.com article about hi tree? no? oh, well here it is . isn't it lovely!? whats going on over here you ask? well, I am getting ready for the nela art walk that is coming up on second saturday, that is always fun. I just got my lovely crib bumper back from pregnancy and newborn magazine.
now i just need to figure out what im going to do with it!
I just completed a 4 foot tall giant giant giant sequoia, he is so lovely. i promise ill have pictures of him up soon. He will be making some appearances around town in the next few months.
Oh! i dont want to forget to mention that ill be at Renegade Craft Fair Los Angeles. woot! im very excited to be participating in the first ever here in lala land. Its going to be so fun!
Any how, if you know anyone that would like a cheap but awesome computerized sewing machine, im selling mine for $150. Its super duper awesome but its time for a upgrade! yay!! so anyway, thats all for now, i need to get back to work! This week ill be posting some all new, one of a kind totes! by the way, thank you to all who voted in my little poll!

enough of that, here are the giveaway details: I will be giving away a pair of small oak leaf earrings. you know the drill, leave a comment on this post to be entered into the drawing! i will announce the winner on tuesday june 9th.

its me again

boy did i drop off the face of the earth. im so bad like that!
the reason for my disappearance was, well, ive been making stuff! new stuff!
i also did unique los angeles last weekend which was very very awesome.
april was such an amazing month on etsy and may is turning out to be the same.
so here are some recent photos! and photos of my studio.....
(you will have to excuse the poor image quality of the studio photos, its a little too dark in there and i hate using a flash.)





bringing back the fanny pack.... (does anyone beside me even call them that anymore?)

hi tree studio!





my booth at unique los angeles last weekend....

anyways, tonight is the north east los angeles art walk, hi tree studio will be open for business tonight from 7 to 10pm.
if you live in the highland park/ eagle rock/ pasadena area come by! you can download a map of art walk here.
hi tree studio is located in the rear of the avenue 50 studio at 131 north ave. 50, right next to the gold line tracks.
located in the same building you will find she rides the lion print studio and also 2 tracks studio. its a fun place to be!

serious overstock!

ha, im just going to be honest, this past few months have been brutal on etsy! i feel like i have been doing nothing but pumping new items into my shop and it hasn't seemed to make a difference.
Meanwhile my inventory is out of control, i spend 9 hours a day at the studio making things and its starting to pile up. So i decided to temporarily mark down most of the smaller items in my shop in order to stimulate my economy (hopefully!)

also, this past week i went on a mission to learn how to make zipper pouches. i think most of us crafty folk are pretty scared of zippers. i decided to look my fear square in the face (and then proceeded to punch it in the face) so here are the fruits of my labor! i feel pretty happy with them, and they can only get better from here!

we have a winner

SO we had 22 entries total (i had a few enter on my facebook) everyone was assigned a random number in no specific order, then i used the Random Integer Generator to pick the winner of the lovely leafy earrings.

So Dee from our little love nest was the lucky one! i would go play the lottery if i were you! please email me your address :) tina@hitree.com. and congratulations!

doesn't mr. giant giant sequoia look so cute on the pretty blue wall!

giveaway time again!!!

this time ill be giving away a pair of these new lovely leafy earrings.



This time a round i will announce the winner on friday at 12:00 noon pacific time. SO, to enter the drawing leave a comment below!

so it looks like......

option 1 won. that was seriously a close vote, what would i have done if they tied!
i really really appreciate all of your input. and another thank you to trudesign for designing such an awesome logo for me!

so anyways. this week im working on a new owl design. i need to get that looking as tight as the trees!
next up on the chopping block for a re-design is mr. giant sequoia. ive been looking at him and seeing many ways in which he can improve. so that is just what i will be doing.
things are slow in etsy land right now! or is it just me? :)
here are some new one of a kind things i have recently made and added to the shop- im at 3 pages now. woot!

i need your help!

justin and i have been working on a redesign of hitree.com. but we have hit a bump- we cant decide which design to go with. so this is where you come in. i need some feedback! so below are 3 options.
i would really appreciate some feedback comments! thank you in advance!

option 1:

option 2:

option 3:

more new stuff!

boy have i been a machine lately.
i dont really have much to say except that, this saturday night is the north east los angeles art walk. come by the studio if you live in the area!
i am located in the Ave 50 Studio at 131 north ave 50 in highland park. art walk is from 7-10pm. There are 3 other artists (like she rides the lion)in the building and an art gallery. so there will be plenty of food, wine and geeks like us crafty folk. the ave 50 studio is also hosting a curated fiber arts show. lots of fun stuff going on!
par-tay

new new!

well, i have been sooo busy making new stuff!!! i went a little crazy with the button making, but i wanted to make some more affordable things. i really love all these new little guys. i was in a little bit of a creative funk a few weeks ago and im so glad to finally be out of it.
so head on over to the ol etsy shop and take a look! there are tons of different colors and types.

the winner

is sarah madeline :)
sarah, email me your address to tina@hitree.com
i wish i could give all of you a keychain! keep checking back, im going to start doing giveaways on a more consistent basis :)
if any of you have seen mr. giant giant giant giant sequoia wandering around any where, please tell him to come home NOW. he appears to be lost :( i dont know if my life can go on with out him...........

G G G Giveaway time!!

oh, yeah. its that time again. ill be giving away one of these little beauties.(a little itty bitty oak tree keychain) i know you want it! well, you might know the deal, but if not here it is.
post a comment in this thread and on tueday around 10am-ish (west coast time)
i will announce the winner that little miss hazel has picked.
meanwhile, dont forget about my little BIG sale going on this weekend in my etsy shop.
AND tomorrow i will be at the Silverlake Art *Craft & Vintage. The market takes place AT 2450 GLENDALE BLVD. LA CA 90039
(at the corner of Silverlake Blvd. and Glendale Blvd.) outside in the CITIBANK parking lot............................
If you see me there and you mention my etsy sale i will give you the discount. woot!

big sale

this weekend (friday- sunday) I am having a 30% off everything sale!
get it while its cheap(er) :)

meanwhile, i cant seem to locate my camera charger..... so i have no new pictures to show :(
but i have been working in my new studio and it is just wonderful to have my own space! i call it my happy place.
if you have seen my charger wandering about, tell it to go home already. it is missed dearly.
hope all of you have a happy happy day. maybe commit a random act of kindness for someone that may really need a smile.

foam magazine

hey! check this out! its my first magazine interview. you can find this in the feb/march issue of foam magazine; out right now!
you can see the digital edition of this lovely magazine here.

what!

look at this picture......
govenator, yosi sergant and what is that thing in the background? oh hey! its mr. giant giant giant sequoia!
awesomeness

Hi!

Hi everybody, once again i have managed to drop off the face of the earth. i apologize for being a bad blog mommy.
My reason for the disappearance are as follows,
first, i was busy getting my installation together for manifest hope dc: (pictured above) unfortunately i wasn't able to be there, but i found this photo on notcot.com of my trees, i think it worked pretty well, even though i wasn't able to install them myself. yay for the installation team!
second, i have been moving into my NEW STUDIO! yay! hi tree has officially moved out of my living room (thank god) into my very own studio space in the ave 50 studio here in highland park. and come to find out my neighbor here in the gallery is she rides the lion. We are already talking about starting a north east LA etsy street team.
I dont have any pictures of the studio yet, but i will have some up asap.

Last but not least i have made a hi tree crib bumper, its a bunch of my bitty trees attached to each other to make a tree wonderland for those little tiny nugget babies. I shipped this off to pregnancy and newborn magazine last week along with mr. oak tree. Im still debating on wether or not to put one up for sale, it would be pretty pricey!
All four of bumpers can come apart so that when little nugget has grown out of the crib you could detach all of the trees from one another and have a bunch of little trees to play with.

you will have to use your imagination to picture this on a crib, i didn't have one accessible for photos....

hellllllloooo washington dc

Guess who is going to the Manifest Hope installation in DC (ill give you 2 guesses, but you might only need one)
Mr. Giant Giant Giant Sequoia!
This will be by far the biggest and best event i have done in hi tree's 9 month existence. There are some big names involved with this installation including –Shepard Fairey & Spike Lee and a ton of incredible artists, Including my own awesome pals travis millard and mel kadel.
I am currently still in Jacksonville, tomorrow i will be stealing him from the Burrito Gallery to ship him off to his new temporary home. This next week is going to be crazy!

Also, keep an eye on Sucker, i am sitting across from her this very moment and she is stitching away at some super cute new stuff for her etsy shop. (sucker aka Christina is my brother's girlfriend and an occasional hi tree helper, when im in over my head)
ok! well stay tuned for more news very soon!!

ok, i know

2 blog posts in one day is probably tacky, but ask me if i care......
i made a purse today! vintage sheet + felt + thread + sewing machine = cuteness!
the only problem is, cant i just keep it? :( i dont think i can keep this one, that was not my intention, so this will be up in my etsy shop very soon, as soon as im done drooling all over it.....
enough of that, here it is.....