Morning Brew Ha-Ha @ 9am Eastern Mon-Fri

Brew up your cup of joe tomorrow morning and join Blockhead Rod and AGoodWitchToo (Witchy) for the Morning Brew Ha-Ha every weekday morning at 9 am Eastern!! You NEVER know what will happen....

www.blockheadradiolive.com

Open the player, listen to some excellent music and if you want, join us in chat!! It's Friday...have some fun!!

Want to learn more about the musicians we play on Blockhead Radio? http://blockheadradiolive.com/songlist <----------- visit for all the info you need on the music you'll hear on BHR. Don't forget, sign up for chat and join us! No worries, you will never be spammed for signing up to chat! :) Mmmmmm coffee....

The Witching Hours are Calling YOU!

Yes, you my pretty!! Come and join our merry crew on Saturdays, 5-7pm with AGoodWitchToo as she hosts The Witching Hours on Blockhead Radio! Check out some excellent deals from various venues and possibly a treasure hunt!!

Come brew up some fun with us, catch the sales and hang out in chat! Call in for even more fun!!!

Saturdays, 5-7pm right here on www.blockheadradiolive.com

See you there!!

Stay up to date with Witchy and her witch's brews on http://thecoppercauldron.blogspot.com/



Amy, your friendly blogger

It's Time for Artist Teams and Groups--Saturday, 1 pm Eastern

It's a bear out there! Come join us Saturday, at 1 pm Eastern, to hear our Artisans Teams and Groups show with Lily of TulipsTreasureBox as she interviews Shelley, of the Artist Bears and Friends Team.

What IS the Artist Bears and Friends Team?

From their Etsy Team Page:
We are a collective of artists who make soft-sculptured collectibles produced in the image of a bear and/or any other real or imaginary creature. These collectibles are knitted crocheted, needle felted or stitched with an external covering of yarn, mohair, wool, plush or other fabric including real fur and leather. They may be jointed, partially jointed, or un-jointed. Their common denominator is that none of them are intended or safe for children.

http://team.etsy.com/viewteam.php?id=407

Join us as we learn more about this fun team, their work and the artists in the team!

We promise it'll be a BEARY good time!

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself...)

Join in on chat at www.blockheadradiolive.com and call's to the studio line are welcome also!

727-474-1064



Amy, your bear possum blogger

Excuse our Construction..

Welcome to Blockhead Radio Live, where we encourage you to put on your hard hat as we have slight construction on our site and radio station!

Blockhead Radio is being revamped, loved, and updated to better serve you!

Please forgive us, as the premiere of "Ask Huck" was unable to be broadcast last night, we encourage you to tune in NEXT Wed, at 8 pm Eastern to hear our lovely Huckleberry Arts do her thing!

So please bear with us as we may experience a few hiccups and the occasional burp as we work our way out of beta!

More blog love to come!

Amy, your soapy possum blogger


**No technical support people were harmed in the making of Blockhead Radio...chipmunks maybe....tech support are all safe and accounted for.**

Morning Brew Ha-Ha @ 9am Eastern Mon-Fri

Join us every weekday morning at 9 am Eastern for an hour of laughs, fun, and odd news! Grab your java, join us in chat and tune in for some fun stuff!

Blockhead Rod and AGoodWitchToo (aka, Witchy) will take us on an interesting journey, no doubt!!

Witchy better change the locks.....

Ask Huck Premiering Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009!!

Join us this Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009 for the PREMIERE edition of "Ask Huck"!! Our very own Huckleberry Arts will be LIVE ON AIR and taking questions via phone and in chat!! What could you Ask Huck? Well, she's been around long enough to answer just about anything about marketing, handmade, computers, online business, advertising, art and more!

Just how long as Huck been doing this? Well, no one really knows....legend has it she drank a brew some years ago that left her immortal...perhaps Witchy knows something about it?

Ok, not really! But, she still knows her stuff and can undoubtedly help you!

So drop on in to chat at www.blockheadradiolive.com and then launch your player to hear the awesome Huck.

She may even reveal how she keeps Blockhead Rod in line.....

I'm thinking duct tape is involved.....

Come and join the fun!!

TUESDAY, FEB 3, 2009 (and EVERY Tuesday!) 8-9 pm Eastern on Blockhead Radio!

Amy--your friendly blogger

The Witching Hours 5-7pm Eastern on Saturday

Tune in Saturday at 5pm Eastern to hear our lovely AGoodWitchToo (a.k.a. Witchy) host The Witching Hours. Join us for Saturday Night Specials, fun, laughs and the treasure hunt!!

You never know WHAT you'll find when Witchy is calling the shots!! :)

Join us at www.blockheadradiolive.com and chat away with us.

Perhaps you will be bestowed the purple hat?

Getting to Know Us at Blockhead Radio!

Getting to know the Possum!

Name: Amy
User Name/Shop Name: mamaslittlemonkeys/fleurdeink
Shop URLs/Website URLS:
www.mamaslittlemonkeys.com
www.fleurdeink.com
http://blog.mamaslittlemonkeys.com
www.cafepress.com/momsmonkeys
What type of art do you do? Sewn items for adults and children, soaps, graphic designs (Mama's Little Monkeys)
Flower Pens (Fleur De Ink)
Custom Clothing, Coffee Mugs, etc, (Cafepress)
How did you get started in your art? Honestly, out of necessity! I started cloth diapering my second son at 3 months and could NOT find any cute cloth wipes (I had yet to really find Etsy at this point, or even know about the handmade movements!). So I decided to try my hand at sewing my own. I bought a sewing machine off ebay and I was hooked! Flower pens naturally came later because in my former life as a teacher, we LOVED flower pens because people were always stealing our pens and it's a little harder to steal a pen with a big flower on it..plus it's way more fun to write a lesson plan with a pen with a big huge rose on it!
Where do you draw your inspiration? For my sewn items, from my kids, friends, and often the fabric I use. I have what you might call a fabric obsession. It's quite out of hand. And now the soaping obsession is building. For the flower pens, really whatever is pretty! I can't garden to save my life (literally, my family would die if they depended on me to grow food!), so I love flowers I can't kill AND are functional! I need an extra room to store all my supplies!
What are your main obstacles in your art? TIME! I often feel torn between work, kids, husband, house, etc. Obviously house cleaning is the first thing to go when I'm short on time! I mean, we're not living in a pigsty or those houses on "Clean House", but Martha would not be pleased...plus, hey, 2 kids under 4, EH, my house is just NOT gonna be picture perfect!
How did you find BHR? I am ashamed to say I really don't remember!! I THINK I found it becuase of the SNS, Witching Hours thread! (Shhh don't tell the boss that I can't remember!)
Are you a member of the Pluggers United Team? Yuppers! I'm mamaslittlemonkeys there too, and proudly proclaim my love for pluggers in my shops profiles!
What is on your wish list of handmade items? What would you LOVE to have, money being no object? Oh my gosh. Too much stuff. Probably some lovely wooden toys from www.banished.etsy.com, EVERYTHING in www.aebaby.etsy.com, All handmade soaps! Seriously, the wish list is huge. Oh and anything in www.glutenada.com YUM
What is one art/craft you'd love to learn to do? I would love to learn cold process soap one day. I enjoy melt and pour and am quite busy with it as is, but at this point we do not have the physical space for me properly do CP or HP soap, and also with the small kids around, I'm thinking clumsy me and lye are not good combos?
What is your 'off air' job/life? Family? Kids? Well, I am always a wife and mother first...(those kids are around here somewhere...) In my former life I was an early childhood education teacher, I worked with special needs kids, my husband is a mechanic..oh excuse me, automotive technician. I am conversationially fluent in American Sign Language (yes I can curse in ASL), I'm 5'12" and NO I did NOT play basketball. I love all things chocolate, coffee, and martini (in no particular order.) I LOVE "Lost" and will miss every Wed. night BHR show until Lost is off..I'm sorry..I've made it 5 years with those ppl, I must see it through! I used to want to be a writer once upon a time and dreamed of moving to New York City! I eat to live, I do not live to eat (unless it's above mentioned 3 foods), and I do NOT eat seafood!! I also have Celiac DIsease and run the local support group for the Celiac Sprue Association, so that is why you see "glutenfreegirl" at the bottom of the posts!!
What is your favorite dessert? Homemade: Pamela's Gluten Free Cake Mix that I turn into this AWESOME mocha/cream cheese cake...drool. Eating out: Chocolate Thunder from Outback--its GLUTEN FREE!
What are your business goals? Fight CPSIA to the death. Reevaluate future plans and goals due to CPSIA, perfect melt and pour soaping, work local craft fairs and have 60 sales this year! :)
If you have an extra 24 hours in the day with no constraints, what would you do? Sew and Soap in PEACE! Without having to put the baby in the crib or put tv on for the 3 yr old....Blast music, have a drink and create in PEACE!
If you could meet ONE BHR crewmember or listener, who would it be and why? I'd honestly have to save I'd love to meet each and every one of you...but if you held a gun to my head I'd HAVE To meet Witchy because I can so see us cruising down Bourbon Street, slurping down Hurricanes and dying of laughter! (and McGeeky trailing behind us carrying the shopping bags....)
Shameless Plug for anything here: Shop my lovely handmade shops and PLEASE check out my Cafepress shop!!

BHR ROCKS! :)