may i just say...

[studio journal : 8.20.08]

Good morning,

May I just say thank you? Thank you! I am so pleased with the reception of art card subscriptions yesterday! I was happy to see good friends and a number of new folks sign up as well, and not all were women! I'm really excited to make and send out little surprises in the mail, hee hee. It will be fun.

Did you see Karin's 'dailies' yesterday at Design for Mankind?
The new small magazine w/ Martha's skirt & coat and Shanna's pinafore!
Don't miss Jess's giveaway!

Seriously? Tomorrow is Friday already? That means it's the end of my summer break. Denial. I'm still in denial.
Oh, but it's also someone's birthday.

:)
H

I like finding things

Good day to you!

Yesterday afternoon while trying to make decisions and draw out new ideas for pinhole work, I just had to stop and take a break. So I looked around the garden and found a collection of these dried seeds, grasses, and flowers. It helped me to take a moment and just look... to look at the lines and admire their forms and arrange them in different ways. The wind [not really] helped arrange them too. What do you do or look at when you get stuck?

I want to give a thank you to Julie & Kathryn and to Jan for the sweet and super generous shout outs today for my art card subscriptions! Thank you ladies!

My friend Aimee always makes me smile.
My flickr favorite from yesterday.

I wonder what we will find today?
H

something special

G'morning glory,

My grandmother always greeted us that way of a morning in a sing-songy voice when my sister and I would stay with them during summers. Despite school calendars here it is still summer. That is what I tell myself.

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Tomorrow morning my art card subscriptions will become available. I am excited for this because I want it to be something special.

I will be making art cards only for club members or for custom orders during the three months. In other words, there will be no regular listings of singular art cards. Subscribers will receive one original art card made just for them each month, for three months. Each month will have a theme and each card will be unique. No two will ever be the same.

The first batch of cards will be shipped out on/around September 15. There will 2 1/2 weeks to sign up and subscription availability will close by September 5. There will be 10-15 slots available, perhaps a baker's dozen.

In addition, subscribers will also receive a pinhole card in their name.

Thank you for letting me share this with you. If you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to ask me!

till tomorrow!
H

peaches & sunshine

Good Monday morning to you!

I hope you had a delightful weekend,,, did you? The weather was so nice here, yesterday I sat outside and read. Then we did some weeding and discovered some of our lettuces had reseeded, so hopefully we'll have new lettuce in the fall. Right now we're getting some green beans, tomatoes of various kinds, beets, and peppers. This is the last of our peaches and one of our apples. We had only a handful of apples from our little tree. They're kind of tart.

Some of you have been asking me about the art card subscriptions, thank you so much! I'll share all the details with you [probably] tomorrow but until then I have added some info here in the announcement section at the top. The subscriptions will go on sale this Wednesday morning.

Did you see this lemony eye chart poster you can print out? It's a special gift for Poppytalk readers. [That reminds me, I got new glasses, I'll have to show you!]

I enjoyed browsing through these images this weekend.

And if Monday mornings are not your cheeriest, check out this post for a ray of sunshine.

till soon,
H