show at Snow City Cafe

I'm busy getting ready for my First Friday reception at the Snow City Cafe this Friday! This will be my first time showing my work all by itself (without the works of other artists there too).
Hooray!

Frontier linocut

My newest, smallest linocut yet! The image is about 5" x 7", so it makes a nice card. Above is my initial sketch, and below is the print and how I packaged some of the cards.

Grandma

My awesome grandma, Eleanor Koukol, who was 97, died about a week and a half ago. She was such a sweet, loving, strong, funny, and ornery lady. I read her eulogy at her funeral, and I think it was one of the most satisfying things I've ever done. It made most everything I've ever done before seem so selfish, because I had never honored someone in that way or ever given anyone a gift like I did that day.

I took this photo of her my senior year of highschool.

nursery birds!

I just got back from South Africa and Lesotho (photos to follow), and I got an email from Kelli Taylor at Purple Tree Photography letting me know that she finished her nursery. She hung 3 of my FLIGHT hanging wooden birds over her baby's crib. Her photos were super exciting for me to see since the colors of the birds match everything else in the room perfectly, and because while I've sold a lot of my hanging wooden birds, I never have seen them in their new homes! Here are some of Kelli's photos of her new nursery:

block printed cards

I just finished my first venture into making cards for selling. These were simple to make since I used woodcuts and linocuts that I had previously made. I made these to take into a local gallery here in Anchorage, but soon I'd like to sell cards in sets on Etsy.

goods of paper

I've been preeetty busy designing and making our wedding invitations. I'm happy with the results, since they seem to have the quirky/natural/fun feel that I was hoping for. They also keep with the theme of the save the date postcards, which you can see below.


The cats with the heart over their heads just get me every time. There is a variation of them on the invitation as well, and it involves an umbrella!

new postcards!

I just ordered some brand new postcards to send with orders, or for random fun-mailing. The first is definitely my favorite, but isn't variety the spice of life?