I finally packaged up my OWOH winners felt bowls today. I don't know why I have been so flakey lately, but I guess we all have weeks like that. Another place I've been flaking out is my Etsy shop. I have an uneasy relationship with selling, you know, the little voice that asks why anyone would even want to buy my stuff, who do I think I am, etc. I am getting more comfortable with it, the more work I get published. I've added a photo album of published layouts in the side bar, and I plan to add some notes and supply lists, etc. soon. So today I bit the bullet and started adding to my Etsy shop again. The thing is, it was a really big deal a few months ago for me even to open a shop, and I think I opened it and ran off and hid! So today I added this vessel and limited edition archival prints of this mixed media collage:

You can take a look here:

Saturday was such a good day! Lorraine and Z and I met up to repeat the "bead walk" we took last year. Lorraine knows where all these little bead shops are around London and this time last year we met up and she showed us around. Was that the first time I met her? Maybe. The three of us have met up since then and always have such a good laugh. Saturday was about demotivational scrapbooking, bad friends, booze and biscuits, and how you finish the saying "speak of the devil..." We visited 5 or 6 bead shops (I know where they all are now Catherine, for your visit, and Lorraine loved your necklace.) I wanted bits and pieces for my Artfest charms. I have an idea involving acorns, but haven't been able to make acorns that I like yet. I found really funky glass toadstools on Saturday and am making these for trades:

I was away over the weekend at our lovely, lovely friends in Wiltshire. I was helping my god-daughter earn her Brownie art badge (details here if you're interested). It was a weekend of beautiful weather and long conversations and laughter and oboe practice and wine and walking by the canal. We only got back on Monday.

We were excited because the Gocco was due to arrive by today... and it did! I did a little sketch and managed to burn the screen to print it before going to work, but had to wait to take prints from it when I got home. So here it is, my first Gocco print. I am so glad that I have more ink and screens ordered already! There is so much I want to try...