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.