The Great Reorganization Project Begins

Drawers open
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Good morning! I hope everybody had a lovely weekend. Mine was pretty good actually.

I'm finally cleaning and organizing my studio. Starting by putting away blocks in newly purchased drawers. Oh how I adore the Container Store! Finally all my small and midsized blocks of carved wood have been safely put away instead of lying around here and there in my studio like they were before. I mean really is that how I should treat my beloved woodblocks? The blocks that I haven't carved are safely stored on a shelf on my pegboard. The only problem I see with this drawer solution is that I don't seem to have much room left for future blocks!

Though if my Gocco experiments keep going like this then that top drawer that I have currently used for Gocco goodies may find itself free for more woodblocks! I haven't given up on Gocco completely but I am not a happy camper. After producing such worthless cards I had half a mind to take some of the blank cards I have left and make beautiful woodblock prints on them! If I had the energy I would have too! Maybe I will do that today. They could be really pretty but selling them at a price that is fair to me yet might be tricky. People will only pay so much for a card I think.

Bad news from studio cleanup is that I can't find one of my favorite newly carved stamps. It is a simple enough design that I should be able to duplicate without much of a problem, but I would rather not!

I'm still playing around with my lightbox and photoshop skills after getting tons of advice from people! Some wonderful souls even took my flawed images and fixing them for me! Having contacts that are photographers is certainly helpful. As tempting as having them fix my images in the future is I really need to learn how to do this myself! But maybe a few could be fixed while I am learning! For example this one that I put up on Etsy yesterday is certainly looking rather washed out compared to how it looks in reality. It could use some TLC but I struggled with it so much in Photoshop yesterday and wanted to list a mirror so badly that I put it up even with the flaws. I figure I can always change the photos later!

Pregnancy is sucking me dry again. Getting stuff done is hard, I am shocked that I was able to clean yesterday after the horrible night I had before including puking up acid at 2am! But I may have discovered a surprising cure for the horrible acid. It was suggested to me months ago but I ignored the suggestion because at the time Xantac was working great and it sounds weird and gross. But a swig of apple cider vinegar seems to help more than anything at this point! I was able to sleep through the night last night and that is a small but important victory for me.

Soon I need to go to the doctor to have a nurse look at the shot my midwife gave my on Friday testing for TB. This is so pointless and stupid because unless the sign of TB is having no sign at all I don't have it. The nurse is going to check the puncture area for any discoloration but there is nothing. I may not be a nurse but there is nothing there! But since I am not a nurse my eyes don't count. Can't even see that I had a shot at all! Imagine that, I don't have TB!

Set of Four Coasters
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hi everyone... for the first time this year I am having a Saturday Night Special Sale

also known as the cat bite sent me to the doctor sale! hah!.

Just remember to write SNS in the message to seller section and I will send a new invoice if needed. Sale ends at 6am Sunday morning.

Spend $10 or more and get either a free ACEO of my choice or a free reproduction print of your choice.

If you spend under $10 I am offering free shipping to all. Domestic and International!

Everything is available in my shop.

I have a bunch of new pieces in my shop and coming to my shop in the next couple of weeks including this kick ass set of one of a kind coasters! The post man did indeed ring today and after jumping up and down and clapping a couple of times I am now the proud owner of these and many more goodies to come. I also have a bunch of pocket mirrors that I would love to start listing. But the sun has been a no show all day and I can't get good pictures. But they (and more) are all available. All of these new products come from originals and not computer printed out reproductions.

Square Magnets
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These are coming and so many more goodies made by Kate Black with her button machines of many sizes. All of them are made using real artwork that either didn't work out or work that I made especially for this purpose on scraps of paper that were too small for anything else. Go upcyling!I would have loved to make them myself but I trusted her artistic eye and she didn't let me down. Not only do they look great but she took great photographs of them as well! Expect all sorts of goodies to be coming into my Etsy shop starting next week. If only I had asked for more square magnets. I guess I will have to make some more oopsie prints so I can get more of them! I can't wait for these puppies to arrive! I may have to squeal when I open the box.

I feel a bit better after sleeping many hours last night. There was a jackhammer going outside the bedroom this morning but that didn't keep me from sleeping. It woke me up and annoyed me but I was able to tune it out and go back to sleep. Little blee woke up kicking and that didn't stop me from sleeping either. I'm going to eat something and then finish cleaning off my desk while I still have the energy to do so.

While I still don't know what is going to happen this weekend I haven't given up hope that I will be able to go to New York. I just have to see how I feel today and decide at the end of the day.