prints are ready

I just listed the first of my new prints in my Etsy shop this morning.  It took forever to find time to calculate the shipping, test the packaging, etc.  I can't repeat enough how much I missed the straightforwardness of printing on paper!  After some of the marathon sewing sessions I've been through over the years, it it so refreshing to print and be done.  Plus, not being limited on how many colors I can use, like with greeting cards (because otherwise I'd have to charge too much) is very liberating. 

I should have more new additions over the coming weeks, including a few select mash-ups of some of my old designs, and another colorway of the design above (those are actually ready to go, I just need a bright day to take good pics).

Hopefully with all my ideas for future prints, they'll keep getting better as I go along.  I've got some 3+ color prints with lots of cool layering in the works now.  I'm really excited to get them finished.  It's always such a struggle to find the time to do any work that's production related during the week, but I at least got a bit of sketching done last night while Dad had the Peanut running laps around the house to wear him out (this was at 9 pm, mind you).  Despite our best efforts we are stuck with a little night owl, at least for now.  There's only so much you can do to manipulate the sleep patterns of a one year old.  But who knows?  In a few months maybe, hopefully, that will change.  Just got to find those workable moments when I can.

first fall prints

I finally finished the first set of new prints last week.  Today I'm ordering protective sleeves and rigid mailers so I can officially start selling them in my shop, but I figured I'd offer up a sneak peek.

They all measure 11" x 14" and are printed on a heavyweight cardstock from French Paper Company.   More colorways are in the works.  Some of these will also be repeated on pillows too...slightly larger though.  Still deciding if I want to make some or all of these as pillows, what colors and fabrics to print on, etc., but I hope to get those started by next weekend.

I had planned to work on the new print colorways this weekend, but a scuffle with a mini tree stump on Saturday morning put me out of commission.  This evil tree and I have been battling for years and I needed to dig out the stump so I could transplant a shrub there.  Normally I love trees, but this is a super invasive Mimosa tree that is right next to our fence.  I swear it grows a foot a day and makes babies everywhere. So, in a moment of laziness I decided I would stand on it and use my weight to knock it over instead of hacking through the last large uncut root.  I'll save you the nasty details, but basically a piece of the stump broke off and my foot hit the ground at the wrong angle wrenching my knee.

I triumphed over the stump in the end though, thanks to my husband agreeing to finish the job.  I'm almost better today, so maybe tomorrow I can handle standing awhile to finish those prints.  Otherwise I'll be announcing their arrival in my shop as soon as the mailers arrive.