stasiab

Pencil, ink, fabric, daydreams, paper, tea, coffee:
That's what these little girls are made of.

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Stasia Burrington was born in Texas, raised in Montana and now lives in SeaTac with her husband and two cats. She's a full time artist, doing custom work and nurturing her little online shop. You can find her most often at home, coffee-cup ever present, working while piled under blankets and furtively watching sci-fi in the background.

At times she's aspired to be: an astronaut, magician, Lara-Croft type action-adventurer, and a children's book illustrator. One of which is now the case!

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This Etsy shop has existed for 15 years now, traveling with me from Idaho, to Colorado, Montana and now - SeaTac, Washington. My heart really is in the mountains, in the woods, around a campfire, under stars and tinged with a huge love of science fiction, fairy tales and basically - stories that are slightly odd.

I create personal, intimate, edgy and cute artwork; I want to inspire discussion, to form connections, and to respond to the pain and beauty that we live in... to share these human feelings, and to inspire compassion and humility.

I believe in visual art’s power to communicate the nuances that we haven’t yet learned in words. I believe in the imperfect, the cracked, the broken, the aging – the quiet beauty that is so subtle that it could easily be overlooked, but when noticed, stops time. I crave a simpler, quieter way of life, a more accepting attitude towards existence, and I know we all crave beauty; our definition of beauty needs only to be pried a little wider. The stains in our favorite teacups – the wrinkles around our eyes – the uneven stitches in a hand-knit quilt, these are full of the energy of age, the power of being loved over and over again. A reclaiming of heritage is in order in a world where it’s easier to throw away than to mend. An embracing of our “flaws” is in order, to be kinder to ourselves, and to be kinder to the world.

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