seedlings

This weekend I worked on some cards for the mid-winter gocco swap organised by Sarah. It was exciting to bring my gocco printer out of hiding and justify my bringing it across the world in my suitcase.

As has happened before, I made a few mistakes with these. I had been hoping to use two colours of ink, but I ruined that screen, and then decided to play it safe for the remaining one i had. The only type of card I could find in town was thick Italian watercolour paper, but actually I quite like the look of the fine brown ink on its texture. I really need to experiment more with this little machine. There's so much inspiration out there. 

So these are little postcards with birch seedlings on the front. The other day when walking down our road, I saw a little circle of these, freshly planted in a garden. While birches are so much a part of the winter landscape here, they also remind me of home- there's a row of them at the bottom of the garden at my parent's place.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the other participants in the swap make. You can see some more here at the gocco-swap flickr group.

Thank you for all your comments on my last post. It was great to read your suggestions and thoughts, and I am hoping to respond to my overdue emails over the week. I've decided that I'll answer any questions within the comment section of each blog post. I hope you know how much I appreciate your feedback and love the comments you leave. But I have gotten so behind in my correspondence lately, that I think this will be a good move.

Some very good things that happened today: I found a shop here that sells thin elastic (this is more exciting than it sounds), the NZ comedy duo Flight of the Conchords won a Grammy award (go on, treat yourself to some clips on youtube), and it was warm enough to eat our lunch while sitting on the front step. For ten minutes or so.

Comments

[jen]

love flight of the conchords.. its business time!
umm. anyway...
love the flower on your little sweetie's dress! keep warm!

[Jo]

Fab pic of Miss K (still loving those pink boots) and looks like you stumbled across the perfect paper for your gocco postcards - they look lovely. J x

[alice]

Thank you for my seedlings! They arrived today, I love them :)

[Rachel Paul]

I would love your little baby vintage embroidered shoes and much more for my childrens boutique in Miami, Florida. How do contact you. Do you have a website?

[amisha]

i LOVE that photo of k... so sweet!!
and your gocco cards look beautiful. one of these days i am going to just bite the bullet and get one... so tempted when i see these lovely things :)
xox