IF: Primitive

so a definition of primitive is "an unsophisticated person" - I think that describes Norm on most levels...

hee hee hee

it works :)

just trying out my "sticky post"

This is a test. This is only a test. This is a test of the PSIA sticky post. I posted this post after posting the sticky post. Please ignore it.

life of a slacker....

ok - so I'm having BIG problems keeping up with all the websites that I have to log-in to to keep track of all my stuff - this is getting insane! I was discussing this with my 5 1/2 year old the other day - when I was little we didn't have cell phones (what's a pay phone?), dvd's (how did you pause to go potty?), the internet (where did you play computer games?), email (how did you send "letters" to people?)... Not only that, we didn't have "snow days" - I had to walk to school in 5' of snow (grew up in the fabulous Rocky Mountains) - to which the response was, you had to walk to school? Ok, so I'm hip, I'm trying to be up-to-date. I can keep my website updated, I sell my wares over the internet, I use the computer for settling disputes between me and my spouse - but still I can not keep up with moderating comments on my blog. I apologize to those of you who are kind enough to read my blog and acutally comment. Don't take it personally. I had a few spammy comments and now I'm a control freak. I vow to be better at it in the future!

so I'm slackin' a little bit...

But I have a good excuse. I've been working on an ABC book for about a year now. I painted 26 pictures for the book, scanned them, photographed them, had them printed into a book format, photoshopped them because the book looked awful, tried another printer, re-photoshopped them, and then gave up. Then, in at 3am one day, I awoke with the brilliant idea of converting all the paintings to linoleum block prints. So, I practiced cutting a few blocks, started drawing the pictures, practiced cutting some more blocks, tried different ways to transfer the pictures, found a way that worked, so I scanned the drawings and started transferring then cutting the 26 blocks. I have 19 blocks in the works currently (the art store didn't have 26 in stock, so I have to go back). But low and behold version 2.0 of the blocks works! So far I'm happy with the format. So happy in fact that I am a willing to share them with you. Here is "I is for Icecream" and "H is for Houses" - I'll let you figure out which is which.