Giveaway: Organic Owl Love T-Shirt

An Li Liu is a traveller, yoga instructor, designer and the owner of An Li Studio. Her online store offers high-quality selection of giclee prints of original collages and paintings, digital illustrations, and eco-friendly hand-printed t-shirts. 

I am very excited to share that she has generously offered the owl t-shirt for a Valentine's Day giveaway.This heart-felt, flower-eyed, silvery fellow is printed on a mellow-blue 100% organic cotton scoop neck t-shirt. One lucky winner will win this adorable t-shirt in the size of their choice (available sizes - small, medium, large, or XL).The owl t-shirt is made with hand-cut stencils and then printed with silkscreens using high-quality, non-toxic, solvent-free, water-based inks. 

To enter the giveaway:

1. You must be a follower of My Owl Barn (click here to follow My Owl Barn)

2. Sign up for newsletter to get "Owlsome Deal" delivered in your inbox.

Make sure you leave a comment here letting me know that you are a follower and have signed up for the newsletter.

I'll announce the winner sometime on February 14th!

Update: pupton is our winner!

Owlsome Deal - Snowy Owl and Lighthouse Print

Regular price: $20.00

Owlsome deal price: $15.00

Our today's Owlsome Deal is by David Scheirer of Studio Tuesday. He is an artist and a painter living in Washington DC. The primary subjects of his watercolor paintings are nature, animals and birds inspired by his time spent in the outdoors, bird-watching and exploring. Lately he started a project called 100 Owls. As the name implies, it's a series of stunning and breath-taking owl illustrations in watercolors. 

"The goal of the series is to create 100 unique images of owls, with the hope of creating a book that will capture the viewers interest through the entire series."

David has offered an Owlsome Deal on "Snowy Owl and Lighthouse" print from the 100 Owls series. It sells for $20 but for My Owl Barn readers it's for only $15! The offer is valid for a limited time only exclusively through My Owl Barn blog. To purchase the print at the discounted price click the "Add to Cart" below. 

Buy now and save$5!

This deal is only available till 02/12/2012 6:00AM MST 

The deal can end earlier, if the product gets sold out.

Additional details:

• Snowy Owl and Lighthouse by David Scheirer

• Matted Archival Print based on original watercolor illustration

• 5x7” print comes with a 8x10” white mat board

• Initialed and dated by the artist

Not so fine print: 

- Once you click on the checkout button in cart, you will be directed to the PayPal payment page to make the payment to the seller. You can pay with your PayPal account, or with your credit/debit card.

- You will also be asked to provide your shipping address on the PayPal payment page.

- If you are seeing "This product is out of stock" message after clicking the "Add to Cart" button, that means that the deal has ended due to deadline being reached or the item being sold out.

- This Owlsome Deal is available to all the international readers.

- If you have any pre-purchase enquiries or questions about your purchase. Please email at 100owls@studiotuesday.com.

-You can read more on shipping info and return policy at http://www.etsy.com/shop/100owls/policy.

Don't miss any Owlsome Deal,  sign up now to get them delivered in your mail box.

Vintage Auto Parts Sculptures

 

If the last post got your creative juices flowing then this post will knock your snocks off! James Corbett was the owner of auto recycling business before turning into a full time artits. He makes amazing life like sculptures with old gears, spark plugs, exhausts, radiators and so on. Some of these parts are more that 80 years old that are not changed or bent to modify the into shape. Artist shares: "Often the longest part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."

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Peach Pit Carving

Peach pit carving. Did you guys know about this? I didn't. I first learnt about the fruit pit carving on the blog called Spike is Best of Paul Stilwell. I searched on Google and found out that the pit carving has been around for  centuries originally introduced in China. It is the traditional handicraft and popular art form of China which needs some fruit pits and lots of carving skills. The pits from of the juicy fruits like peach, apricot, olive or walnuts are used to carve with intricate and detail art. 

Paul carved these two owls and tree on peach pits using xacto knife and sand paper! You can read more on the process on his blog.

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Little Beehive

Bee an illustrator from Melbourne, Australia recently released these adorable mini prints of owl and fox pair in her online store Little Beehive. Each print is 4" x 6" and available in two lovely colors - aqua-blue and golden yellow. These are great to add charm and color to a newborns room. At $10 each these will make a sweet Valentine's gift for your friends!

iPhone Cases + New York

Hoot iPhone Case

Fancy Owl and Cute Owl case

Smart Owl

Owl Give You a Call and Cute Black Owl

Thaneeya and Owl

Happy Friday all! I'm taking a small trip to New York City with my hubby to celebrate his birthday. We'll be staying with a friend who has an apartment in a high rise building which is only few blocks from Times Square! I'm looking forward to enjoying the view from the apartment, endless strolls around the city and visiting museums. Do you guys have any recommendations for thrift stores, used book shops, restaurant that serves belgian waffles and best (in your opinion) coffee shop? 

Have a great weekend! See you back on Monday.

Valentine Owl Pops

 

If you are too obsessed with fondant like Jenna then today's post if for you. She made these sweet owl pops using fondant and dum-dum suckers. These look like an easy to make treat that you could send to your kid's school or make for a Valentine's day party.

You'll need only the following few things to make these pops.

Fondant

Dum-Dum Suckers

toothpicks

water

food coloring

For more information and instructions go to Jenna's blog.

Printable Valentine's Day Cards

Jennifer Bell is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Minneapolis. She created these cute Valentine's Day cards featuring illustrations of woodland animals - owl and beaver. These can be used as is to give to your friend, as gift tags or punch a hole in the card to stick a sucker. These cards can be downloaded from here for free!

Hazel Village: Discount Code

Do you remember this post on adorable animals by Hazel Village? Most of them were limited edition and sold out before many of you had the chance to purchase them. Jane the creator of these cuties have made some new creatures, and here is the chance for you to grab one for yourself or for a friend before they are gone!

She has generously offered 10% off on anything on her website and her Etsy store. To avail the discount use the coupon code OWLBARN2012 (works on both the sites) that's valid from now until February 14th. Check these out Lucy the owl,  Kit the skunk, doll knitting kit and bird rattle.

Macrame Owl with a Heart

I love macrame owls! I keep seeing the vintage ones in the second hand stores and craft fairs but I have never bought one for myself. May be it's time that I should. I find this little guy just adorable! It's made with white cotton thread, has wooden beads for eyes and a hand felted heart.Cute! I am thinking, a perfect gift for my valentine so I can have it later ;) Available here.

Do you know how to macrame or own anything macrame?

Nathalie Lété

Another beautiful owl entitled "La Chouette" by Nathalie Lété. Want more? You can find her artwork on plates, cards, pillows, tins, scarf here.

Happy February!

Happy February, everyone! To the most of us it's a fun month with love in the air. This year it's an extra special month beacuse we get an extra day added at the end of the month. Yes, it's a leap year. With our busy schedule we can most certainly use a bonus day. Do you agree? 

Getting back to Love and Valentine's Day. If you are looking for a gift for someone special in your life then allow me to remind you that our Owl Lover 2012 calendar will make a great gift for anyone. You can pick the images you like from the gallery of 45 images of fabulous artworks and create your own calendar. Simply tie a ribbon across it and throw in some chocolates with it ;) If you already have bought a gift then you why not print the February month and use it as a tag! I like the shown image of the love-birds owls by Oana.

I am sure you want to take a peek. Visit this link to see all the artwork and download one month or the entire calendar.

{images: my owl barn}