tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59804024279566690262024-02-07T04:20:50.018-05:00Sparrow-Avenuea journal of my animal drawings screen printed on textiles barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.comBlogger1709125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-44934138007763147152017-08-21T07:52:00.001-04:002017-08-21T07:52:11.939-04:00As I am having difficulties uploading images, there will be no post today.barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-46191297656243230862017-08-18T05:24:00.000-04:002017-08-18T05:24:05.585-04:00Just a Little Experimenting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">While printing I do have a tendency to get bored and want to mix things up a bit. So while I have been experimenting with the Black and Gold look, I have been experimenting with some of my other images to see if they might work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the 138th <a href="https://theex.com/footer/other/media-centre/cne-history-and-general-information">CNE</a>.</span></div>
barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-81547139643189008182017-08-17T05:18:00.000-04:002017-08-17T05:18:08.500-04:00Tiffany Falls, lPart 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">of Roxy's capability these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But she did love the good</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">sniffing to be had!</span></div>
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-55769525610901528182017-08-15T05:09:00.000-04:002017-08-15T05:09:00.276-04:00Coreopsis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is my production period whereby I do nothing but build stock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That means I am cutting printing and sewing just about everyday, when the girls and I aren't out walking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The other day, coming home from one such "around the block" walk, I saw my coreopsis hugging the black iron urn. The blacks and blues and rust of the urn looked so nice juxtaposed with the yellow.</span>barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-21162640183409439852017-08-14T05:03:00.000-04:002017-08-14T05:03:07.163-04:00Dolly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope you are not too freaked out by this. I do realize that without the history, it can look a little disturbing, especially for the start of a new week. But I was cleaning one of the rooms in the house and came across it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This was a much loved dolly. It's body was replace at least too time because it was loved so much. Her hair, as you can see, is beyond belief: so matted and lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She was first found at a flea market, in a box along with so many other little dolls. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She was pulled out and hugged. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She was a keeper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And was named "Dolly".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Our little girl</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> went up to the old man who was selling his collections and gave him</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> a kiss which I am sure he remembered for the rest of the day.</span>barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-20239251350235594372017-08-11T05:02:00.000-04:002017-08-11T05:02:12.995-04:00Mini Bee<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is now a mini Bee pouch to accompany the larger one that I was making a few weeks ago. This one is really cute as it is 4 in. x 3.75 in. and it has a nice antique brass zipper. Hopefully I will have it in the shop very soon.</span><br />
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-69904188260094767292017-08-10T04:57:00.000-04:002017-08-10T04:57:05.810-04:00Sparrow Avenue at the Art Gallery of Ontario<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Out and about the other day having coffee with <a href="http://paulalukey.com/">Paula Lukey </a>who I had met last year at one of the shows. We had promised ourselves that we would one day get together and now we finally did. Even if you are self-employed and can manage your own time, it is still very difficult to get away from the studio.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Later in the day I dropped off more product at the <a href="https://shop2.ago.net/store/">AGO</a> and had a chance to see it on display.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-63469067720558329072017-08-08T05:08:00.000-04:002017-08-08T05:08:19.068-04:00Dogs, Dogs, Dogs<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Fred is a white Frenchie ( a French Bull Terrier) who has the body of one who works out at the gym on a very regular basis. He's all muscle and power especially in those shoulders! Fred has to be around 8 now and he has extremely strong heart strings wrapped around his owner.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My girls went for a visit just once and it was an experience that didn't require repeating. Fred let out and unearthly scream at the audacity of these two invaders into his territory! We bee-lined into the back yard and never stepped back into the house again. For some strange reason, Fred had no problem with the girls being in his backyard.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some dogs just instantly dislike others. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I know Schnauzers have a particular dislike of Sonee. I don't know why. They just do. All of them. We keep away from Schnauzers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On the other hand, Roxy has never run into any problem with other breeds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, almost never.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was one Standard Poodle that wanted to be intimate with her. She let him no in no uncertain terms that he had crossed a line. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Another time a small female something-or-other attacked her for no apparent reason. I had to get in the middle of them as Roxy wasn't fighting back and she could easily have been hurt. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, so much for dog dynamic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(For all animals too,</span></div>
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-4103836620982408242017-08-07T04:56:00.000-04:002017-08-07T04:56:02.454-04:00The Eco Lifestyle Market<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope the weekend wasn't to weird with all this bizaar weather we've been having: Rain, severe storms that sometimes happen and sometimes don't, hail that happens in one place but just a little ways away, nothing. Well, they chalk it up to "Climate Change". On the other hand, I've been through crazy storms before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And sort of keeping on that note: The Eco Lifestyle Market is happening at the end of the month and you can find Sparrow Avenue there. Sunday August 27 at The Great Hall, 1087 Queen St. W. This will be the first show since the beginning of the summer and I'm looking forward to seeing you there. Hope you can come.</span></div>
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-90347433752804447782017-08-04T04:59:00.000-04:002017-08-04T04:59:00.873-04:00Reflecting Light<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">sometimes I play around with my work in an attempt to show it in a different way. Our kitchen faces west and in the late afternoon light the reflection of the pitcher water on the wall made everything look sparkly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In Ontario it is a long weekend.</span></div>
barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-57756277755080692192017-08-03T04:51:00.000-04:002017-08-03T04:51:03.086-04:00More Linen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After I've cut and sewn the Linen, it is then washed to remove all the sizing. I don't like the sizing, although I understand it is added to strengthen the warp fibres during the weaving process. Still, I think that the textile ink adheres better to the fabric without the sizing in the way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">so here are my blank Linen Tea Towels hanging in the afternoon sun.</span>barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-91059170163639138892017-08-02T05:04:00.000-04:002017-08-02T05:04:07.092-04:00Happy Sonee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"What we gonna do today, mom?"</span></div>
barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-87841197500966815432017-08-01T05:16:00.000-04:002017-08-01T05:16:15.252-04:00Linen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Have you ever worked with linen? it is a beautiful fabric and has many properties that are similar to silk. Not only that but it is one of the most Eco-friendly fabrics that there is. There are little if any pesticides used to cultivate it (unlike cotton, for example) and this particular Linen is deemed "Natural" meaning that it has never been bleached or dyed to acquire its colour.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Let me tell you, Linen has a mind of its own. It is constantly moving and shifting out of any semblance of a square shape. To cut it straight, the grain must be found. To do this, a loose thread must be held tight and pulled. This causes the fabric to gather of course. Smooth it out and as you do the thread that you are pulling is slowly eased out of the weave and creates a straight line. Then you cut along the line and you now have a straight edge, a square edge. (That is, if the rest of the yardage doesn't shift around!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How was your weekend? The last July 2017 weekend? For us it marked (as far as I'm concerned) the beginning of summer as the weather was just glorious!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I managed to hurt my back somehow which made work a little bit difficult (I'm fine now but the picking up of Roxy every time we went to the studio (it's upstairs)or had to leave for walks, was a bit of a strain). But there were some orders and "the show must go on", as they say. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the process, I found an interesting angle to take a picture of the little Featherweight I use. Every 10 or so linen tea towels sewn, requires the bobbin to be refilled. so that's what I'm doing here, more-or-less. You can see the Tea Towels in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here I am sewing in my labels. I made a video of this for Instagram.</span>barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-65728806567783761322017-07-28T05:35:00.001-04:002017-07-28T05:35:26.246-04:00Westie<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The mornings aren't as bright as they were just a few weeks ago. How quickly the seasons shift (except for winter). And as far as I'm concerned, Summer didn't actually happen here. It has been a very long spring and I can only hope that it will be a long autumn. </span><br />
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-36426253399885143122017-07-27T05:37:00.000-04:002017-07-27T05:37:00.358-04:00Mug/Mut<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Slowly, I am accumulating more drawings of dogs. I don't want to just do them straight up like they would be posing for a mug/mut shot. I'd like to capture more of their personality. More of what might be a typical pose for the breed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">By chance, not only a rare capture of me but an even rarer image of me with "The Girls". This was taken last autumn when, after too many years, we returned for a day to Algonquin, a place that holds many wonderful memories for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I had worked on some production of the new large pouches that seem to have attracted some good attention. I like the heave zipper and lining that I have been using. Sturdy and long-lasting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dead to the world</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(what an awful expression!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We were out the other day</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and passed by a 1 year old Sheep Dog.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Very big!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sonee was curious</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">but I know she's also nervous around</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">big dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I called to her: "Sonee"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And the Sheep Dog came to me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Is your dog named Sonee, too?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yes, indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Never thought we would meet</span></div>
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-35199999167222459002017-07-19T05:06:00.000-04:002017-07-19T05:06:00.611-04:00Black and Gold<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Production has started on these large pouches. In fact, they are slightly larger than the one I first showed last week.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I love this Bumble Bee with the "Constellations". Wasn't quite sure if they were Fire Flies, but I decided on constellations instead.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It is lined with a heavy linen/cotton fabric and has a wonderful sturdy antique brass zipper.</span><br />
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barbara@sparrowavenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16810058119646386361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980402427956669026.post-38636810530003416752017-07-18T05:01:00.000-04:002017-07-18T05:01:07.010-04:00Drawings<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been drawing dogs lately, as I had mentioned last week. Well, of course I had to do a Corgi in honour of my Roxy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2018 is the Year of the Dog...I guess that explains why the dogs. I hope to do a screen once I've decided which dog will make the grade, so-to-speak. But I will also be doing a calendar...can't let all the drawings go to waste.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and we have had some lovely blue skies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whenever I have orders to package, I always include a handmade thank you card. This one is stamped with a Sparrow (what else?) that I had carved a number of years ago. I print each card on re-cycled stock with <a href="http://canada.michaels.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-MichaelsCanada-Site/en_CA/Product-Show?pid=M10361773">VersaFine ink</a>. I've tried block printing inks but I'm not very good at getting an even coat. Practice, practice and practice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is very gratifying to have sales whether they be from on-line, stores or craft shows. The support for things Handmade is quite wonderful and reassuring. Certainly when I spend so much time in the studio working, I have no idea if there are others who will like what I do and want to purchase it. So I am always so grateful when a design meets with approval.</span></div>
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