Cupcakes and Giveaway Winners

ok ok ok i clearly did not take into account the extreme bout of laziness i would encounter on my birthday. so this post is a few days past due, but nonetheless here it is :)

out 2 lovely winners of the cute little maple trees are:
 little red door
AND
 rachel b
so ladies, please send me you're shipping info to tina@hitree.com

thank you to every one that participated!!! i will be doing this again!

about the cupcake: my friend becca made me 12 of these babies for my birthday. it that sweet or what! she even made little mushrooms out of meringue. nomnomnom

Its my birthday. Giveaway!

ooooookay. so here is the deal. its fall equinox and my birthday week, my favorite time of the year!
so to celebrate i want to try something new:

here is the deal.
i will be giving away 2 of these lovely new autumn maple trees!
here are the many ways to enter the giveaway:

twitter:
{&hearts} copy paste the following message into your twitter (if you have one): one entry for every tweet you send!
@hitree GIVEAWAY-its my birthday! 2 felt autumn maple trees! PLUS 15% off entire store. www.hitree.blogspot.com & www.hitree.etsy.com

facebook:
{&hearts} pick one item from my shop that you love the most and post it to your facebook. (or of course you could just post the whole shop)

blog:
{&hearts} blog about my birthday/ fall equinox sale and get 2 entries into the giveaway! {edited to clarify} you can just blog about my shop in general, not specific to blogging about the sale. :)

etc.....
{&hearts} etc...... any other way of getting the word out, gets an entry.

finally, when you have maxed out your possible entry points, post a comment below and tell me what you did! ill keep track of everything. if you need to post multiple comments over the week, have at it.

on my birthday, friday september 25th i will announce the 2 winners of the sweet little trees :)
yay!
now go!

oh one more thing! check out the new new tree :)
just in time for christmas!

hi tree installation at Black Maria Gallery

i am in the midst of a food coma, so i thought i would take the opportunity to do a little blog post, since i can't seem to remove myself from the couch in the sheridesthelion studio (next door to hi tree).

anyhow, loads of awesomeness going on right now. this morning i awoke to a very exciting google alert. apartment therapy mentioned me as well as posted some images of my work. check out the article here.




and and and also ive been slowly but surely fall-ifying (is that a word? now it is) hi tree. lots or oranges and yellow and pretty fall colors.

alright alright alright

well hello there, how are you? what is that you say? you thought i was dead? why? because i haven't done a blog post in forever? oh, yeah, sorry about that. ive been too busy making new stuff!

this saturday night, if you live in the los angeles area, please come by the black maria gallery, i will be doing an installation on the project wall. nice stuff!

look, fall stuff! yay!





so now for the goods. as we all know i took a lovely camping trip to sequoia national forest. it was so beautiful, one of the things that stuck out to me the most was the dead and still standing giant sequoias. they had moss growing all over them and it was soooo pretty. so here is the hi tree version of what i like to call, mr. sad sequoia. (he is sad, because he is dead, if it is possible to be sad and dead at the same time)



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ok ok ok. then there is this dude. he is sort of my replacement for THE big tree. (you know, the 8 foot tall missing since january in the mail tree) he is half the size of the big guy, but he is just as lovely.