Featured in A Storque Article

Etsy’s online newsletter, the Storque, featured one of my card wallets in one of their Gift Ideas articles, for the “Not So Organized Lady“.

New One-Month Journals

I made a short run of One-Month Journals. They’re quarter-size journals, approximately 4.5″ x 5.75″ closed, and are perfect for notes, lists, reminders & other little things you need to jot down during the day. I also added a new section to the shop called “WTF”. I’ve reserved this spot for my more unusual creations. [...]

I’m in a gift guide!

Thanks to BlondeChicken for featuring me in her blog, Creative Idyll in a gift guide for Grandmas & Mother-in-Laws. Looks like she’s got the beginnings of a great blog.

Gift Guide on Etsy

If you’ve pledged to Buy Handmade and don’t really know where you’re going to get the perfect gifts for all the folks on your list, Etsy has the solution. They’ve put up a Gift Guide featuring various sellers on Etsy. You can find gifts by person, occasion or price range. Get shopping!.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone has a wonderful time eating their fill of turkey, stuffing (dressing here in the south) and pumpkin pie! Photo by Velda Christensen

Back in Town!

I’m back after my visit with the family, vacation notice is down on the etsy shop and I’m gearing up for the holidays. There are a few new items in the shop, and I’ve been replacing photos to make the shop more cohesive. The Stud Mini-Journal: for the stud in your life… An eighth-size journal [...]

Taking a bit of a break… sorta.

Until the 20th, I’m shaking up my routine by staying with my folks all the way up in NJ. It’s always good to get out of the house, and 880 miles away definitely qualifies. In shop terms, that means that any orders that come in won’t go out until the week of the 19th, in [...]

A woman after my own heart

I’m an avid fan of art journaling. I’ll be published next summer in an art journal book and I have some photos of my pages up on flickr. I started Art Journaling in 2005, and prior to that I was always doodling on my notebooks and journals so I really just added a few techniques [...]

How to Recover & Recharge from Creative Burnout

My November article is up on Collective Creatives… Creative types sometimes go through dry spells, times where nothing they create works, if they even can bring themselves to create. Whether you call them dry spells, burnout, or just plain old fatigue and boredom, they’re not pleasant and creatives can find themselves depressed and unmotivated if [...]

Card Wallets Free Shipping Sale

All Card Wallets in my Etsy Shop ship Free in the US and a buck everywhere else. This deal is good ’till the end of the year.

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• About ARRRT!

  ARRRT! is the brainchild of Alexia Petrakos. Ok. Brainchild is a bit pretentious, but it's her creative playground of sorts. She makes and sells one-of-a-kind journals, handbags & other fun stuff. She also dabbles in mixed media art, collage & painting.