In the tradition of working our little hearts out till December 24th (have you met my family?!?), there are lots of little things emerging from this apartment these days…new albums, journals, cards, tags, and notes. The most recent new batch…Happy New Year cards!
Details of Happy New Year cards…up on Etsy!…and on my site now, too!
In addition to the slightly more Christmas-y cards, I’ve just finished up these new square (5″ x 5″) New Year’s cards that are simple, crisp, and stylish. So far, these are printed in deep blue and bright red text, each with a champagne yellow star above paired with bright red and kraft brown envelopes. I have a few other variations and images I’d like to play around with, time permitting, but this is a start!
Keeping right along with the holiday busy-ness, before the craziness of the Bust Holiday Craftacular sets in, I’ll be at Brooklyn Mercantile in Park Slope this Thursday evening, December 4, to show off a lot of new work (for sale!) during their first Brooklyn Mercantile Bazaar! There will be a few people there with their wares, and I’d love to see you there for some handmade, local shopping…feel free to stop by!
It’s been a cozy and productive few weeks around here and I have to admit that I’m feeling a bit of the holiday spirit! Though I’ve had to change my routines a little bit and stop listening to NPR all day because the world seems to be grinding to halt (from what I can tell, anyway!), my work is perking right along and there does seem to be some light at the end of the tunnel and some good reasons for optimism.
Despite the reports, I’m inspired every single time I hear that, though the economy is beyond troubled, people – you! – do still want to find wonderful little gifts for your families and friends this holiday season, and you’re looking more and more to find beautiful handmade items to fit the bill. I appreciate that, and I know that everyone who makes a living the way that I do appreciates it, as well. Thanks.
William Carlos Williams’s “Winter Trees”.
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