oh blog friends, i realize the massive slowdown in posting is affecting not *only* my traffic and my mission for you to spend at least some of your wedding dollars on independent designers, but also both your *and* my ability to procrastinate effectively and while away happy hours. so i thought i'd at least give you some
excuses idea as to why i am such a blog slacker.
"on why jennifer isn't posting as often as anyone would like, including herself"
by jennifer1. i am so, so *happy*. i met someone and he is great. and last month, due to a host of funny and sweet circumstances, he moved in. (yes, that
is the sound of hell icing up.) i have never lived with anyone before, and it's just amazing to me. i love it! now i come home each evening and there's a person in my house, and i *like* him, and he likes me. so we tend to talk and cook and laugh and clean up (were there ever two people who went through more dishes?). and then i fall asleep, and i haven't blogged.
2. work: the magazine is undergoing a major redesign -- we just shipped the november issue, and i have been working for what feels like decades keeping up with all the near-catastrophes and averting disaster. and then i leave work, and i haven't blogged.
there are other reasons (lots!) -- family, jewelry orders, friend's wedding -- but i won't bore you with details. if only i were just a blogger! like most of you i work full time, run a side business on etsy, travel frequently, and have too many things i love to do. this is one of them! my community service to etsy artists and a labor of love. i promise to try and keep up with it all better!
but please forgive me, because i am falling asleep, and i haven't (really) blogged... ;)
A few more 2009 calendars are popping up here and there and we will keep posting these beauties as they come in to add to our list. From the top: Camilla Engman, The Paper Thieves and Field Notes Brand (which will be up on their site today). Below: Michelle Brusegaard and The Paper Thieves.
For those of you in the Portsmouth, NH area this friday, October 3rd, there looks like a really cool show cooking up at the Nahcotta Gallery there. Jennifer Judd-McGee and Matte Stephens have an exhibit together showing new works and I love how each work's compliments the other. You can see more here and here.
LittleBird Limited is a quarterly art subscription project. Featuring limited edition prints from emerging contemporary artists for subscribers only. Each package contains 3-5 pieces of work in various sizes and printing methods. Created in limited quantities, accompanied with an information catalogue to help you gain insight into the art and the artist.
Commemorating living in a structure that felt like camp (due to moving to her new house in the country), Pennsylvania's Leanne Graeff designed these awesome lino blocked camping tea towel series. And we have been pining for them ever since we laid our eyes on them. Perfect for a cottage camper and "our" kitchen each towel is hand printed on 100% linen. See more of her lino block work here.
We know Jinnie of Lilacmoon for her polaroids and Poladoodles, and she also likes to make things with rubber stamps. We came across these fun little crafts she made using stamps and asked if she’d mind sharing with our readers. You can see more at her blog, blog.lilacmoonstudio.com. Thanks Jinnie! 
