I wanted to post a link to my on of my first posts about penslips from over a year ago.

Enjoy this oldie but goodie.

I’m not going to go into too much other than to comment on how drama at work can affect creativity.

There was a major dramatic episode at work, that had me as part of the food chain involved. I had to work around issues that are known in the system and not known in the system, and figure out how to work it, all the whilest dealing with my coworkers.

The general air was somewhat stressful and overall irritating, but not unmanageable. Or so I thought.

I had made plans that tonight, during my precious alone time I would head to the studio and work on some of those books I have on the back burner. (Leather and nice paper, I’ll say no more!) Arriving home I found myself exhausted, it was all I could do to drag myself to the kitchen to make a nutritious meal. So here it is just after 8 and I’m ready for bed.

It’s pretty amazing to me how all I wanted to do when I came home was unwind, drink a nice cold beer, and go to bed. This after a full and restful sleep last night!

I’m going to let this one stand on it’s own it doesn’t need a lot of fluff to tell yo much about it.
The basics:
6×9 inches, 400 100% cotton pages, black irish linen thread, a simple yet elegant and interesting linked long stitch. Chocolate butter soft deer hide, chunky mango paper inside the covers.

It’s on eBay here.

I listed another recycled journal to etsy, I like the unlined pages of these journals more thanI like them lined. I’m not sure why. I guess I feel constrained by the lines, even though sometimes I like them. That makes no sense at all but I’m sure that there are people out there who completely agree and share my sentiments.

I also decided to keep the recycled journals on sale for the rest of the summer. So this little beauty is only $9.99 plus shipping.

I loaded up a bunch of penslips on etsy, here, and I dare say these are pretty good looking. I forced myself to use yelets that I normally dont like- pure copper, and I like the combination. This is a small selection of the penslips up on etsy:

It’s HOT HOT HOT here in Mass, but I’m lucky I’ve got a cool ocean breeze. Mowing the lawn was a lesson in dehydration! Wow!

I’ve managed to list 3 sets of recycled journals on eBay. I’ve got 1 large recycled with lines, 2 small double sets of jotters, one with full recycled pages and one with plain wausau ivory paper. Each set of Jotters has 6 notebooks for only a dollar more than my usual buy it now price. Youcan find the eBay recycled sales here.

I recently noticed that my pictures are blurry… I couldn’t figure out why and then I took a look at the settings on my camera and realized it’s set to take pictures at the smallest setting, which means that after I crop my pics they are too small to fill the image space on etsy and even ebay, so they get blurry. Of course the light in all areas of the new house is nust not as nice as the light in the apartment. That place juts had the perfect light for photography. I’m afraid that I might have to purchase special lights to get good pics, of course if I would stay in one place and shoot jut there it would be helped greatly too.

I’m putting a leather journal up on eBay as well as a set of jotters an I might put another large recycled journal up there as well.

The couple of journals that I plan on putting up on eBay I’ve already taken pictures of them, but I can’t find them anywhere. I’ve looked on my photo bucket account, all through my computer etc and they are no where to be found. I’m worried they were on the OTHER computer before I wiped it out. Sigh, I didn’t want to re-shoot them as I wrote above about the blur situation…I guess we’ll see what happens!

Okay I’m back on eBay! I’m excited. I’m starting off with some recycled notebooks, a large and a set of Jotters. I’ve also been looking at my back stock and I’m thinking of adding a leather journal or two to the offerings this week.

Here is the large recycled:

You can see it here!

And here is the set of 3 jotters:

You can bid on them and see more pictures here.

I have low starting bids on these and buy it now.

So next week I plan on reintroducing myself to eBay. I’ve got a few smaller journals and a few sets of jotters to auction off, as well as a few other items. Sunday I’ll post the listings and they’ll be active for a week, as per usual.

I spoke with my brother about making me new buttons, he sounds a lot happier now that he’s got a job and new friends who have similar interests. He’s got some plans for a web comic, and once he gets it set up I’ll post some links, even though its not the sort of things I’m interested in, he is my brother.

So I’ve firmed up about 50% of the “new” website and now I just need to wait on the buttons from my brother. Or course I also need to think about what I want for buttons and how I want to present the new set up. But all the old pages are down already and the new set up is starting to emerge from the ashes. I’m pretty excited.

I’ve also been making books again. A few hedgehogs, some jotters and getting paper ready for other endeavors. I also printed out my own copy of Walden, which I found at B&N for $8, minus my 10% discount…. Grgh. My copy will be an heirloom. I also found a copy of The Jungle for less than $10! (Given my recent reading of The Ominivore’s Dilemma it’s right in line with my reading interests right now.) However I’m going tolook online and see if I can get a copy used.