notebooks for sale

The new notebooks are now for sale in my Etsy store.  I'm keeping them exclusive to this shop for now, since there are only a few of each, but I'll be whipping up more for the holidays, gift fairs, etc.

I'm also all excited about some new pillows and prints I have in the works.  Up until this point I've had lukewarm feelings for the pillows I've done, but a little spurt of creativity last week yielded some designs I am really proud of.  Now I am just waiting on materials to build the screens and get going so I can show you samples.  The art prints will be smaller versions of the pillow designs.  I have also been doing some quick experiments, using some of my current designs and freezer paper stencils (a simple one-time use way to block out sections of a screen to print simple shapes) to work out an additional series of abstract prints.

This one is my favorite of the first experiments.  The colors look didn't photograph quite right, but the top arches are actually a yellow and the bottom is orange (they look almost the same on my laptop screen).  It has been so long since I have felt free to play with printing, and I had no idea how much I missed it.  Printing greeting cards was pretty limiting since I had to make sure I could still sell them at a reasonable price (about two colors is the limit).  Larger artwork allows me to use as many colors as I want and still create an affordable product.  I really hope the prints sell well, because it would be so fun to work on paper more often!