Busy-ness update!

I made a bunch of these (you can see what sort of day we had):
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These are mushroom charms to trade at Artfest.

and then I printed and packaged a bunch of these:
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They are for sale in my etsy shop either in packs of 4 or individually (those will be listed tomorrow). I found the coolest recycled card to print them on. It's made here in the UK and it comes in 4 colours/flecky bits: white with grass (my absolute favourite), white with straw, cream with straw and white with banana peel. All the bits are agricultural waste from farms, animal feed, landscaping, etc. The envelopes match, but have nothing printed on them.

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Procrastination

Aaaargh!
It is late and I can't sleep. Mainly because I am too excited! What am I, five?
Here are the things that are exciting me:

  • mushroom charms for Artfest trades
  • felt hedgehogs for Artfest trades
  • Gocco postcards for Artfest trades
  • an artist book: Parade
  • an artist book: hearts beating on the night bus
  • an artist book: peep in
  • an artist book: colour space sound silence
  • Gocco spring cards for Etsy
  • felted vessels
  • reorganising my artroom
  • organising a moleskine exchange
  • art journalling
  • carving stamps

Here are the things that I am doing instead:

  • watching series one of Supernatural, in preparation for watching series two, while recording series three, obsessive much?
  • playing Deadly Rooms of Death, a very retro puzzle game on pc
  • playing N+, a ninja versus robot game on Xbox live, again very retro
  • adding blogs to my google reader account, while not keeping up with the ones that I love, or managing to respond to comments left here (although, happily, tonight I responded to all my March comments, yay!)
  • playing Sudoko on Brain Training 2 on the DS (sensing a theme yet?)

I clearly have to step away from the screens. I am going off to reorganise my art room for 15 minutes and see what happens next....

update: 40 minutes later... got distracted by photos of my grandparents' village on facebook... then spent 20 minutes in the art room and it is a lot better. It is amazing what you can do in 15 minutes. Made a cup of chai and now can read blogs for 15 minutes.

update: 90 minutes later... art room sufficiently improved so that I can open the curtains (people could see the mess from the road!!!) and actually work at the table. Cool enough! Then I don't really know what I did. Forgot to drink the chai till it was nearly cold. Julie's comment made me laugh out loud. Now I will... um, watch Supernatural and make mushroom charms. See that's even efficient!

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