I am not very good at the business side of art and not really at that stage in my journey anyway, but as you know, I have been trying to accept it as a possibility. I have used Cafe Press before to print items that I wanted personally. The other day I was thinking that if I had cards of my 'open' painting I would send them, then today I remembered Cafe Press! So I have some cards there if you want to take a look.

In other news I am just enjoying being done with my reading deprivation weeks. I have been catching up on blogs, which has been a joy! I finished Eat, Pray, Love - I have never affirmed a book so much in all my life, I kept saying "yes!" out loud while I was reading it. A favourite quote:

"You have to participate relentlessly  in the manifestation of your own blessings." - Elizabeth Gilbert

I've just started The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It is demanding more of me that Eat, Pray, Love but I have wanted to read it for a long time and I am enjoying the change of pace.

I saw him this evening, and he looked somehow familiar. And yet something was strangely different.

I have been meaning to share some of my artist books with you. My interest in bookmaking has been creeping up on me for awhile and I didn't really spot the pattern. It was only when I joined an artist book class this fall that I started to realise how much I am drawn to making books of my own. It was helped along recently by a wine-fuelled friendly argument with a friend, involving her shouting at me "you have made SO many books" followed quickly by a list of them - it is so wonderful to have friends who see what you cannot and are honest enough to guide you (and loud enough, and tipsy enough!). So, to start off, one from the archives. It is from a class called Done and Dusted taught by Shimelle and you will find it in the photo album to the left, titled Artist Books: Innocents Abroad.