Final Days

Jungle
Originally uploaded by mlee.etsy.com

Of my Buy one Get One sale. On Saturday I am having an Open House in my studio in honor of Spring cleaning and will be shutting my shop down for the day. This might be the last chance for certain pieces. This woodblock print is just one of nearly sixty pieces that I have for sale now.

We enjoyed our Easter holiday with the family, but I think in the future we are going to ask them to visit a month or two later so they can enjoy good weather. They aren't religious so I don't see what the big deal about being here on Easter is. None of them joined us at church. Which is fine, but the weather will be so much nicer in May and early June.

Jon and I are making plans of our own for a nice little trip. We are finally going to make it to NYC in mid May. We got back into contact with some old friends and they invited us to stay with them in their spacious Brooklyn apartment. It will be nice to see them and other. I hope to make it to Etsy labs once, or at least see Anda from Etsy. I'm dying to meet her daughter!

The collage a day for a week went so well that I am doing it again, but with less restrictions. I just need to do some art daily. Yesterday it was a collage, today I'm not sure. I have a woodblock drawn on and ready to carve. It is quite small, but that is a good place to start.

Hope everybody has a great Wednesday. I miss the old days of blogging and reading blogs daily. I miss everybody.

Easter

wrap tei smiles
Originally uploaded by m.Lee

Was not the best day for our little crew. It had some good moments but overall it just left us feeling terrible at the end of the day. We didn't get a single Easter picture. I was dressed nice, had my prettiest sling and a well dressed baby even after she spit up all over the first outfit and bib I had picked for her. But then things got hectic and negative and the camera stayed in the bag never coming out for even one shot. We didn't get any Christmas pictures due to a possibly allergy induced freakout on her part. So far the only holiday pictures we have gotten is Thanksgiving. I don't know why but this really bothers me.

My mother-in- law had a lot to do with the badness of Easter, and I am going to leave it at that. Other than to say it wasn't something she did to me but something she did to my husband and his brother.

I'm trying to make today different. But I don't feel like blogging much right now, not in the mood that I am in. Instead we are going to go out now that it is warming up a bit.

I'm still updating Etsy with the stuff from last week daily after a weekend breather and my Studio Sale is still going on with possible new pieces as I go though my stash and pull stuff out. Spring cleaning continues.



I think I am going to buy blee a toy to cheer up. I like getting simple wooden toys for her and I have my eye on the perfect ball. Normally I try to steer clear of retail therapy, but I don't think a ten dollar item isn't the end of the world. Especially if it gets us out of the house. And at least it isn't throwaway plastic made in China. Am I justifying?