Today when I was outside, despite the chilly temperatures, a butterfly landed on my head! I actually saw it on my shadow on the ground – first flying around and then sitting on my hair with its wings flexing. At first I wasn’t sure so I put my hand up to my head to make sure it wasn’t my hair blowing in the breeze. I touched the butterfly with my hand and it flittered against my fingers like a deck of shuffling cards and then flew off. A very cool moment.
After much consideration I decided that the prior designs that I had created for my original Celtic Letters were too black and white, and also too HUGE. So I made each letter smaller and put them on a background like ancient parchment with ripped and burned edges. They look very medieval on shirts, and especially good on all the new dark tees! The black ones naturally, and the cardinal and medium olive green too, but also the nice dark brown women’s long sleeve t-shirt. So click on the “A” or click here, then pick a letter and see all the new designs and products available! Go ahead – click now, I’ll wait.
My friend Jen Goode of Lil Goodies fame has begun posting a series of interviews in her weblog, and today was my turn! *grin* Thanks, Jen! Click here if you’d like to check it out.
Also, NaNoWriMo is on, and I’m accepting the challenge this year. Will post word counts as I go, when I can. Here’s my profile – feel free to add me as a buddy (and let me know so I can do the same) if you like! Good luck to all of us!
I haven’t posted in a while because suddenly I had a ton of things scheduled that involved me NOT spending the day at the computer – yes, I was surprised too! *grin* First was a long weekend that involved attending the first ever Cafepress Conference (CPConnect) in San Francisco, which was fantastic. It was SO wonderful to meet all the cool people I’d only known online up until then, and all the neat CP Employees as well, not to mention all the great informational sessions, fantastic food, and lots of laughing. 🙂 I might blog more details about this later after they sink in.
Then my old friend Mitch was in Monterey, CA for business, so as soon as we got back from SF, we drove out to Monterey. And it also happened to be my birthday, so we had a wonderful dinner, and then Mitch pulled some treats out of his suitcase that he’d brought all the way from Upstate New York – coneys, half-moon cookies, and a half-gallon of real apple cider that he’d frozen solid and then stuffed in his suitcase (that’s one way to get around the ‘no liquids’ ban!) He also somehow permanently obtained a decorative wooden fish-shaped napkin ring from the restaurant and got it into my tote bag when I wasn’t looking, so I have a stolen fish napkin ring as a moment. It’s orange with blue spots and keeps staring at me.
Then, we had one day to clean house again and then I went back up to SF to pick up a friend of ours home from her long stay in Ireland, to visit with us! A few days after that, we had to let the neighbors cattle in our dead grass filled side pasture because they were hungry and breaking the boards down anyway (it’s the end of the dry season here and the new grass hasn’t grown much yet so it’s slim pickins at the moment). They pretty much behaved, but we had to keep an eye on them, and then we had to shovel out the yard after they left of course.
And now? Now I have all of these neat ideas for improving my shop(s) from the CafePress Conference, and a ton of other things on the plate, and the holiday season is rapidly approaching, and I want to learn how to program things to interact with the CafePress API (I’m pretty much starting from zero there) and, and…. *deep breath*
So, anyway, that’s my Executive Summary. Thanks for checking in!
I can’t even remember what I was thinking of when I finally linked these two old sayings in my head – a combination of two of the most curious bits of “wisdom” your parents ever yelled in your direction: “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. But then, it’s always in the last place you look!”
Naturally, I had to put it on a bunch of t-shirts! (It’s become a compulsion I think – probably won’t take too long for the big pharmaceutical companies to come up with both an impressive ‘syndrome’ name and an expensive pill to combat it – heh.) This bit of ancestral wisdom is available on both dark red and black tshirts as well as various other styles, including sweatshirts. Click here to check out all the possibilities – but watch what you’re doing!
