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It’s been a hot minute since I dropped y’all a note. The month of March kind of got away from me. We made a bit of a mad dahs home in late March. There were some serious communication breakdowns with the company building our Modular and we had to get home to prep the site for our early April home delivery. We celebrated Easter with family, the first holiday in 15 + years we’ve been with family. We also let go of our big girl Hedy as we rolled into April. She crossed over the rainbow bridge and this momma has a big empty paw print in here heart. It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions the last month to say the least. As I write this we’re cozy in the fifth wheel with a fresh blanket of Spring snow on the ground. We got about four inches overnight. The valley needs the moisture and it’s a good wet snow. The beauty of a Spring snow in Wyoming is that it’ll be gone in a day or two as temps rise again.
Closing a Chapter
Those of you who’ve been around from the beginning of the card business and the building of a niche empire in Delta probably already know that my friend Piper is closing Smiling Moose Gifts. With the closing of her shop came the return of all my consignment inventory. Sit down, it’s a lot… there are 516 cards and 412 stickers! What?
At this point in the game I’m considering card grab boxes. These boxes would be a small flat rate box filled with somewhere around 20ish cards for $20 + $12.65 shipping. These boxes will contain a random assortment of cards, I will be doing my best to mix up the assortment to include a variety of occasions. If you’re interested in purchasing a box replay to this newsletter and I’ll get a box headed to your mailbox.
As for the stickers, I will be listing them on my website as time allows. I have plans to grow the sticker line. I currently have 60 designs, with more hanging out in my iPad, waiting for their chance in the spotlight. I’ll drop another note in your inbox when all 60 are up, but until then check out the Vinyl Sticker page on my website.
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My Next Adventure
I’m crazy excited to be preparing to teach a series of gel plate printing classes at the Higher Ed Center here in our new hometown!
Not long after we started to settle ourselves into our new town, I pulled out my cold call skills and stopped by the center to enquire about teaching. I was honestly surprised as the warm reception and excitement about my enquiry.
I’ll be kicking off this next adventure with a three part series on gel plate mono printing starting May 1st.
I have a growing list of class ideas and I’ll be spending some time writing more class outlines and planning a schedule for future offerings. I’m beyond excited about this new adventure.
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Where’s Our House?
Our house arrived on Sunday, April12th. The Wyoming Wind presented challenges in the travels, and it arrived a day later than scheduled. This pic is of it sitting on the main street when they pulled into town.
As I write this there is a crew working on the “set” of the house. It’s now put together as a full house. We’re working through the process of getting all of our utilities connected, finishing the seaming, and skirting the modular.
She is beautiful and we cannot wait to move in! Hopefully that will be sooner than later, but it’s somewhat dependent on the utilities, as the lot we bought hasn’t had working utilities for over six years. We have to have both a new gas meter and electrical meter set and connected.
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Wings of Spring - Quarterly Sticker Pack
If you’ve been waiting to grab your Wings of Spring Quarterly Sticker Pack, there are only 7 of them left. When they’re gone, they’re gone!
Quarter two will release in July. I haven’t settled on a theme yet, but I’m growing an idea to celebrate being back in the rural life of my home state…
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The joy is in the making, the practicing, the experimenting and the trying of new things. Whether that be in art or in life. It’s not about perfect, it’s about the doing. Go out and enjoy new experiences.
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