in a pizza treasury

Pizza penguin is in an etsy treasury. Treasuries on etsy can be "curated" by anyone with an etsy account, and basically they show a group of items that the maker enjoys. Often they have a theme (like pizza) or a color scheme. They're fun. I stopped making them when the system changed - there used to be a limited number - now there are gazillions of them. Still, they're fun to peruse. 

etsy treasuries

Etsy treasuries are little collections of items from etsy shops, created by etsy users. They're themed by color or team or topic or lots of other ways. What's the point? Well, they're fun. And also, these collections often end up on the front page of etsy, which is great exposure for the artists in them.

Here are a few of my recent ones. This one was titled etsy vs the bed.


And this one is still active, chicken and waffles.

This one has items from two etsy teams: pcagoe and eart.

polymer clay treasury-7-28-8

polymer clay treasury-7-28-8, originally uploaded by divadea.

This is an etsy treasury I made yesterday with all items from PCAGOE. It's just so pretty I had to save it.

treasury

Thought I'd get a quick screenshot of my latest etsy treasury before it disappears, just because it's pretty.

tarot treasury

tarot treasury, originally uploaded by divadea.

I just made this treasury on etsy, after looking at practically every listing with the "tarot" tag - there aren't actually that many. There are only a few tarot artists on etsy, but the ones who are there are amazing. Anyway, you can click here to see the actual treasury for the next few days until it disappears.I am really itching to make an original tarot deck.

I mean an actual art one (though I do love and adore my own personal Buffy tarot deck). I have all these ideas and I can't decide how to begin. The options are polymer clay canework, polymer clay not canework, flat collage, 3-d collage-->photos, drawing/painting, all of the above... I also like the idea of making a photographed deck, perhaps out of modern urban-type images, but I am no photographer, nor do I even own a decent camera. I have never in my life experienced a shortage of ideas. Often, though, I have so many that I become paralyzed and have trouble figuring out where to start! Plus a project that's likely to take years rather than hours is a bit daunting. Why make them? Not because I think I can divine my future. I think it's because, first of all, I love things that come in sets, especially art things. Plus, each card (in the making and the interpreting) is like responding to a prompt - yes, there are rules and definitions, but the actual interpretation is up to the artist.