the organizational scrimmage

preparations

I've gotten photographic reproductions from my local print shop.

Paradise Copies is right around the corner from me. They are kind of amazing. Every time I ask them if they can do something, they say yes, and it is cheaper and easier than I expected. This time I had to make reproductions, mount them on foam core and shrink wrap them. With a  short break in the middle of the process for me to make labels, sign them and attach them to the back of the mounted pieces. 

That process is well underway. The last piece is framing the big guys. Al says fall and winter should go, but that I should make more too, because he wants to see spring. 

Summer Pond (with water lilies)

summer pond with lilies

Done. 

I thought about water lilies, but I didn't like any of the things I made, so we have lilypads and it is fine. I keep thinking of other things I want to do, in the same way that house cleaning can be a distraction from a larger, worser task. But I really have to make another of these sized pieces, and do some moderately good photography of them and get prints… 

new experiences

I have accomplished nothing today – except for one huge milestone/millstone that has been hovering over my head for (…counts quickly…) sixteen months.

I finally woke up my Etsy Shop.

It looks pretty good too, if I do say so myself.

But having made the banner, and the avatar (the little tiny crow picture) and listed two items which required
cropping and resizing a bunch of pictures and two different computers, I’m knackered, and done. And there are no transfer paint experiments, and no thing of the week. I’ll have to do it tomorrow. But you will all know…