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Absolutely love them, especially the "involuntary retirement" one.





_refugee_  ·  1844 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks! I was following your conversation in pubski with flac last week. That was a good (and valuable) back and forth. I plan on checking out that book you recommended as soon as I'm done with my current read. 2019 is my Year of the Great Etsy Experiment, aka me trying to actually try at Etsy and give it a serious go.

It's fun! We all need side projects to grow with and challenge ourselves on. I'll confess, I started the etsy shop in part because I got tired of accumulating all this Art I'd made and then trying to find people to give it all too, over and over again. You probably were there for some previous Hubski giveaway threads. It was tiresome making art and then feeling like it was work to find people who'd be interested in it. I was like, "If I'm going to make crap, I might as well make crap other people want and try to recoup some of the material cost I sunk at least!"

user-inactivated  ·  1844 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I check out your Etsy shop from time to time, just to see what new books you may or may not have made. I'm a pretty big fan of them actually, because they're always an interesting cross between folksy and punk, if that makes sense. Your personality really does come through in them.

Your sea themed lino cut stamps by the way? Also quite awesome.

_refugee_  ·  1844 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aw, thank you! There are several listings I plan to finally revamp this next weekend. I’m excited to say one of my earliest items - the book club bookmark - I have finally successfully redone and am proud of at last. It took many attempts and lots of cursing to make a $2 bookmark, ha!

The stamps actually aren’t lino - soft rubber or whatever, the pink hardball brand stuff - but I’m dying to get into Lino. I follow someone on Instagram who does a new lino every day and I love basically everything she posts. She does a lot of tesselations