Now that our Rose Cottage renovations are winding down, I am able to catch up on finishing endless books, illustrations, interior design before & afters, stationery, and other fun projects to add to my shop.
A summer wax seal sticker and notecard set will release soon. New warm-weather inspired packaging will be dressing your orders beginning this month. I am excited about my new Autumn-Halloween stationery collection! The cookbook will probably release next winter. The newly illustrated Vol.I of The Love Letter Diaries, Leona’s Homecoming novels 1-4 will release this summer. I am mulling over a fresh film series to begin over the winter, but first the novelettes and children’s books draw my attention.
At the moment, we’re enduring that certain sting of updating the computers and printers. If you could just design them to last, please…that would be helpful and sustainable. The prices are not kind, but the worst part is testing out the new settings…just trying to capture the correct colours. I am most terrible particular about colours and sizes. And, why not? Painting in the desired colours and scope means something. If you’ve ever seen the work of an old master sold as art prints, with your pick of five different lights and shades, cropped until confusing, then you’ll know that those sellers have not visited the original, assessed what the faded level of colour is, and configured their senseless printers to best represent this aging. Every detail the artist includes matters, and as a whole this makes up the symbolic story of the composition.
This weekend, we had a quick bite…a fresh hot tortilla and roasted pepper hummus. It was comforting after a nice long walk. Oxygen health breathes new ideas, stories, and leaves space to work on aging ones before they are lost to the stacks of notebooks in the bookcases.
There is much to do on this calming cleaning day, so I’m off now, riding the tickly bristles of my golden brush across the page. All things bewitching, coming soon. Love, ~Amor Milagre
