Seven

Hope your new year's are off to a delightful start. I've been busy this week and last, working on a round of revisions (hence the quiet). But...

Next week marks seven years of blogging here for me. In light of that and the new year, I retooled the design a bit and changed some other things. On the sidebar, you'll find an updated list of other places on the internet you can find me, a "subscribe by email" option and I'm slowly adding labels to old posts. I'm also brainstorming some new ideas for this space. My goal this year is to add more DIY projects with an illustrative bent and more process posts. I've also had a few questions about having an email list and I'm mulling that one over.

Now, some New Year's resolutions -- it's not too late for those, right?

* Finish a book dummy.

* Dust off my Spoonflower shop

* Get ink on my hands again (translation: more printmaking).

* Participate more regularly in Illustration Friday.

*And I might have started doodling something tentatively titled, The Continuing Misadventures of Moth Girl, so that's a thing.

And you?

"We'll take a cup of kindness yet..."

Right before Christmas a family emergency came up. Things are much better now, but it leaves you with the tangible realization that life really is a gift. Of course the cards went out late, I never washed the walls and a thousand other things went by the wayside. But having the ones you love around you trumps a freshly vacuumed house a thousand times over and for that, I'm grateful.

Yesterday after the storm finished I got to stomp around the woods for a bit. By the point I snapped those photos my ankles had gone numb and my boots were packed with snow. That said, there's nothing like walking through just-fallen snow, seeing the sun break through and realizing a fresh new year is on its way.