If you’re not familiar with Etsy – get familiar asap! It’s a fantastic online marketplace for artistans and crafters of all types. And She’s SO Creative is right there with the best ‘em, selling our witty wares: http://www.etsy.com/shop/shesocreative

The cool things about the contest is that YOU get to decide who should win. So please vote for She’s SO Creative as your favorite Bay Area Etsy shop. It’s super simple:

1. Visit 7×7.com’s website HERE

2.  Scroll down and find She’s SO Creative

3. Select She’s SO Creative and submit!

The success of She’s SO Creative’s outrageously clever card line, which we launched two years ago, encouraged and inspired us to expand our brand into new arenas. Keeping the same wit and whim, kitchenware was a natural progression with our funny-food related designs acting as a catalyst to springboard the collection. Here’s a sneak peak below:

Instead of bringing wine to that next soiree or housewarming party, consider bringing a clever She’s SO Creative gift! She’s SO Creative has recently expanded into kitchenware with fabulously fun, hostess gifts. ”Pasta Bowl” Apron (pictured top) literally features a bunch of pasta bowling and comes packaged in a Parmesan Cheese Container! “French Chicks” Apron, which features very Parisian looking chickens, is delightfully packaged in a real Egg Carton.

And “Salad Dressing” Apron, which literally features a salad getting dressed (i.e., a carrot in pantyhose, a tomato in bra and panties, and lettuce in evening wear and heels) is packaged in none other than a salad container. And of course, there’s matching shopping lists and napkins to boot!

They’re fun, they’re adorable, they’re eco-friendly AND they were recently featured by national publication,VegNews Magazine! So what are you waiting for? SHOP She’s SO Creative now!

And on July 24th & 25th from 10am-6pm, our clever creations (and us!) will be at the Park Street Art & Wine Festival in Alameda. This is the 26th year for this event. It typically draws around 90,000 people coming to enjoy themselves at this fantabulous festival. So please come celebrate with great music, great food, and lots of quality artisans. And of course, She’s SO Creative! Hope to see you there.

To me, seriously being referred to as “creative” is the ultimate compliment. If my epitaph reads, “here lies Stephanie Orma. She was SO creative,” then I will have lived out my dream.

When I was a little girl, I loved the comics – so much so that my Dad was still sending me the funny pages every week when I was college! I devoured my brother’s Mad Magazines and oodles of cartoon books from Garfield to For Better or For Worse to Luanne, Kathy, and Rose is Rose. I loved (and still do) Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Tracy Ullman. When I was high school and college, I created hilarious cartoons of my snooze-worthy professors. Nothing made me happier.

Fast forward to my 30th birthday. I was at a crossroads in my career and sole searching for my dream career. And BAM! It hit me. I wanted more than anything to bring my outrageously clever ideas to life through fun, witty products. She’s SO Creative was born.

I spent months brainstorming, drawing, and seeing just how far I could stretch the literal to hilarious limits. I created prototypes, made cold calls and started knocking on doors, one retailer at a time. The rejections were tough (and still are) but thankfully they’re few and far between.

Today, She’s SO Creative is sold in stores all across the nation and I’m having a blast coming up with more outrageously clever products everyday! One of the greatest (and most unexpected) joys of starting my creative biz has been the opportunity to connect with creative people everywhere. From the dental hygienist who moonlights as a photographer to the trombone-playing-banker to the crafty endocrinologist, She’s SO Creative celebrates the creativity in everyone. And hey, if I can make it happen – you can too.

DIY Therapy Journal by She's SO Creative

This limited edition, pocket size (3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″), brown kraft Cahiers journal from Moleskine® is hand silk-screened with a therapist droning on about the importance of not overlooking the important details in life…while his very own “detail” is unzipped!

The journal is made of acid-free paper with 16 detachable end sheets, plus back inner pocket. The covers are hand silkscreened with a Gocco so please allow for slight imperfections and variations between each journal as this is a hand-made process.

Perfect for anyone who is a therapist, knows a therapist, goes to a therapist, or knows someone who goes to a therapist. In other words, it’s perfect for everyone because, hey, who doesn’t need therapy?

So what are you waiting for? Go nuts – buy one now.

Stretching the literal to hilarious limits, our outrageously clever, super fine fabric cotton, graphic tees are silk-screened with saucy, sweet (and sometimes sassy) visual word plays. Check out Teenie Weenie Martini (an adorable martini drinking weenie dog), French Chicks (cigarette smoking, beret wearing poultry) and the “Ultimate Dream” fat eraser tee (inspired by the illustrator herself, who wishes she could simply erase and redraw a better fanny for herself). WOW – don’t we ALL wish that!

Wear She’s SO Creative’s super fun, conversational tees for yoga, Pilates, or any occasion at all. These are seriously limited edition…so move your fanny and buy one before they’re gone.