Chasing the elusive Sandman

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The past month, I’ve slept an average of three hours a night, and have worked an average of 90 hours a week.

My Valen­tine cards took more time to pro­duce & pre­pare than I’d expected, although I’ve heard so much very encour­aging feed­back that’s it’s been quite delightful, espe­cially as it’s my first-ever foray into making & selling my own work. (If you’re inter­ested in a card, they’re avail­able on Etsy, or in Hal­ifax at Duly Noted Sta­tionary on Quin­pool and Love, Me Bou­tique on Birm­ingham. I’ll also be selling them in person this weekend at the Har­bour­side Market in Dartmouth.)

I’ve been also working on a whole boat­load of projects, in between all the inking and painting and pan­icking. I’ve got a few web­sites in the works, a logo, and a printed booklet with a short turn­around time, along with all the usual Wicker Empo­rium work. I’ve been meeting with all sorts of people to dis­cuss new projects, and am working on fin­ishing up some projects that have been drag­ging their heels for too long.

Out­side of that, I just took my first screen printing class last night, and it was rather delightful. Given that my print work is all dig­ital offset printing, I’ve never had an oppor­tu­nity to apply any of delightful things I learned in school, like trap­ping and reg­is­tra­tion and colour plates, all of which now I have a prac­tical use for. I’m get­ting more and more excited about doing more work by hand, and am hoping the print process will lead to all sorts of exciting new devel­op­ments and discoveries.

In short, while sleep would be nice, I’m happy to be mad-busy and thrilled about my work again.

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5 Comments

  1. you better be busy forging me a medal for Excel­lence in Insomnia and Behaving like a Mad­woman, aus­tralia. (as a side note, i bought two new pairs of shoes to reward myself for afore­men­tioned insanity and very nearly bought a pair today. i hope you’re proud!)

  2. pffft normal!& whythankyou. i’ll get you into shoes one of these days! (admit­tedly shoes are a lia­bility when trav­eling. god, i missed heels when i went five weeks without!)

  3. Damian Gason says:

    If you com­bined your Insomnia with my Chronique Fatigue you would have someone that is almost normal. hahaha Two pairs of shoes when you already have a pair, that is insane in my lame book. I only have one pair of shoes! I do have to admitt that I do like your taste in shoes. You do have style Sarah! :)

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