You can instantly spot the work Chelsea of Love And A Sandwich, her happy furry colourful monsters with BIG personalities will put an instant smile on your face! I have been seriously in love with this girls work since I traded a purple bear plush for her bunwich in 2008 and am now super duper excited to be selling her Monster Baby plushes through the A little Stranger shop.
How does it feel to make toys for a living? Feels great! haha. I do have to put in a lottt of hours and hard work for it to pay off money-wise, but I just remind myself that I’m doing something I love, and things could be worse! I definitely love the hours. I can sleep in and work late, which I love doing. This wasn’t really something I saw myself doing when I was doing art when I was younger, but it just sort of fell into place and works better for me than any other medium could. 
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What is it about monsters that captures your imagination? I just love that they can be anything! There is no imagination limitations when it comes to monsters, and I think that’s awesome. They can be any color, shape, size, and have as many eyes, limbs or teeth as you want! The only limitations are what you can dream up.
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When you’re not creating what do you like to do in your spare time? It’s basically all I do all day haha but I love watching cartoons while I work, and playing with my puppy (& my new puppy to come soon!) I live in the mountains of New Hampshire so I also love hiking, swimming and being outside.
What are you present influences? People with great styles and big ambitions! & That make monsters, of course. I love Felt Mistress, AJ Fosik, Jenny Harada, A Little Stranger 
, Cotton Monster, and Cat-Rabbit! Just to name a few, but I’m always finding more people I absolutely love. My live-in boyfriend is also a huge influence (www.daverapoza.com), he loves monsters as well and he’s in a totally different field of art than me (concept art) & I’m influenced by him every day with his hard work and his constant need to get better at what he does!
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What do you collect? Fabric! Faux fur, mostly. I’m running out of places to keep it in! It just comes in so many cool colors and designs, I want to have it all! I guess I’m kind of a sunglasses collector as well. I’m not really much of an art collector just because I can’t afford the art I want haha, most of the artwork I have is made by friends or I got in a trade.
Whats next for Love and A Sandwich? Lots of things! I hope. A move to Seattle so I can be less in the middle of the woods and more around like-minded people! I want to be in big craft shows so I can meet people instead of being a hermit. I want to learn to animate, knit, needlefelt, and how to make my own clothes! I also want to start up a website to sell my work in so I don’t have to rely on Etsy anymore, as much as i love Etsy.
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What work are you most proud of? That changes a lot! Usually the newest plush I’ve made of my own design is my newest favorite. I guess my most recent plush I’m most proud of is my Lion-o plush! It was super fun to make and I was really excited about it when it was finished (& really didn’t want to part with it D:)
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Links!
Love and a Sandwich Blog
Love and a Sandwich Shop
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Cavey is a plush series from A Little Stranger. Each Cavey is lovingly handmade in the UK. 
