Teeny Insomnia

Tuesday and I'm just about all caught up with the mailing, finally! This will just be a quick post as I think I may be posting another entry tonight. For now, I'm just eager to get the organizational tasks under control and really looking forward to some good solid hours drawing. I've been working on these little neighborhoods... fun to draw... but also I owe one of my friends a new design, too. Ideas kept me up all night last night, and what do you do at 3 a.m... get up? So here I am, catching up with myself.

In the rest of the world of fun news, did you know theres a parallel moving story going on? The amazing Kitty Genius, Ashley G, just recently announced on her blog that she and her beau are picking up and moving out to Portland, OR in (you guessed it) May! I'm a huge fan of her work and she has one of the best written Profiles in all of Etsydom. So strange to read her blog and think, "Wow, am I really doing that too?".

In OUOU news, Sophie made an cameo yesterday in the indie shopping site Wickedly Chic. Thanks, guys! Scroll down a bit and you'll see cards from Macaroni and Glue, too. Its always great to see a familiar face. :) A little pic of "ouou loveliness" showed up on King Carmen's photo stream over on Flickr the other day: so cool. I go over there and just stare at this pic for long moments- such incredible work and 3D books just rock the free world. Seriously.

Oh, Hai.

(stretches arms) Good afternoon. Still here and its time to come back to the fun bits: hello again blog! :)

Recovery is going steadily along... little did I realize I would have to recover all over again Saturday when I began emerging from my drug-haze to find epic chaos had taken over my room. Sorry for that bad picture, but it was just remarkable I got any mailings out last week. Yikes!
The fun part was, I had sent away for new supplies from several companies in the beginning of the week, so while sipping my Jello and, well, staring off into space (I did a lot of that), little by little over the days all of the Moleskines and envelopes and such that keep the shop going marched into the home. I love mail. I really do.

The first thing to do (after calling my friends and telling them all of my not-so-gruesome tooth related drama, more driving practice and putting together some corn bread on Sunday) ...okay the first thing to do after all that was to get up to date with the Gocco items in my shop. This weekend the Gocco moved into my room as we get rid of furniture and pack the crafts up. It is not really the best space for it so I may have to sell out of Gocco and stop re-listing/ re-printing those soon. I spent a lot of time thinking about when to close up shop before the move and I'm aiming for either Monday, April 21st or Wednesday the 23rd.

While organizing and packing before the surgery last week I found these lovely green note cards left over from my college shopping adventures to Paper Source in Porter Square, outside Boston. (When it comes to paper goods, I really am a pack rat). I was printing up some Butterfly Sky cards anyway so I tried the image out on them... aren't they sweet? You can still see the true color here at Paper Source itself, my colors I believe are chartreuse and jadeite, and the listing in ouou here.

I think I have enough new items to list something new every day this week. No new Gocco print designs, its just a bit too close to packing up shop for that, but some fun things for the emerging springtime. My sister and I only have 21 days left in PA... and currently still deliberating over the details of this major move, but pretty soon I'll introduce you to all the characters on this journey and the route and such. I may not be blogging for those 2 weeks on the road, but I'll be keeping busy through my journals, postcards, and photos. There will be plenty to report over the next few months.

Thanks to everyone who kept me cheerful through this last rough bit. Between that and my awesome sister providing the most loveliest cheesecake in the universe (no lactose intolerance could keep me from it) it was a pretty darn good week after all!