Feeling crabby at the end of the day.  Crappy weather today, yesterday, and into the weekend.  Looks like Saturday will be cancelled.

ho hum

maybe skipping the gym the past few days is catching up with me.  My negative self is taking over my positive self.

A whole trove of old drawings found and saved from the basement in Rockville.  Touches my heart -- my early years (25 year old design).  So much time and events have passed, yet I feel the same, do the same.  Just with more updated equipment.  This is photocopied and the text is little letter stickers.  crazy

Rain predicted for the weekend, so my mojo for Del Ray has dampened.  Another rained out festival?  It's looking likely.

Had an ok sale on sunday.  Hex was a positive clarita (inside joke), so that helped it all along.  It was windy though.

Not much more to report.  Artomatic anxiety.  Where is the f'n news about it?  So weird - it's almost less then a month away.

Housekeeping day today -- deep cleaning screens and dropping off cards / prints to Buzz(es).

Overcast weather, which suits me just fine.  Still warm enough to wear shorts, but not for long...

good day - print day.  Finished up ISA and CAT SUIT reprint.  More careful this time - I didn't want to have to remake screen last minute for a stupid mistake (like yesterday).

Artomatic officially announced, so the race is on to prepare.  Oct 30 - Dec 12.

Looks like Saturday might be rained out, so no sidewalk sale.  We'll see.

Another good day in a string of good days.  Well, pretty good.

Working on pepper print, and made a few mistakes.  But all recoverable. So glad the drawing came easy, after a few false starts last week.  Had to get it done, so glad it came together with ease Monday.

Good sidewalk sale Saturday.  Always nice to make some $$.  Gearing up for Del Ray in a few weeks.  Had such a great year last year.  Feel intimidated by all that I should prepare.

Ordered a bunch more cards, and they are selling well.  Gotta find more outlets.

Dolcezza up for almost a week now.  I went by yesterday to drop off postcards (all taken) and got great feedback from the baristas.  Hoping the great vibes lead to great sales.  Feeling optimistic.

City is in full POPE mania today and tomorrow.  Beautiful weather, so that is good.  But I'm tired of hearing about it all...

Things worked well at Dolcezza.  Fretting all day waiting for install at 10pm.  Glad it all worked out well spacewise.  You never know until it's all up and in.

Sucky parking ticket put a damper on the rest of the night.

Relieved to be done preparing for it, and now changing gears.  Ok friday working on loose ends.  Plans for a sidewalk sale tomorrow, so it's not like I can completely let my hair down.

Really lucky to have Hexy helping me throughout.  He is a rock.

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Not such a great couple of days!

I was push - push - pushing for this big huge saturday, and the whole thing just fizzled.

Dolcezza install got delayed a few days (good thing), and the 17th St. festival got rained out (bad thing).  Friday night we made the call to make Sunday (on 14th st) our rain date.  Sure enough when we woke up on Saturday, it was raining.  Would have been misery setting up and sitting under the tent, so we cancelled.

But then I started feeling sick saturday afternoon, so Sunday got cancelled too.  Bad news.

Now tuesday, and I'm feeling better.  Back in the studio, and trying to right my ship.  Finished up framing and photographing all the new prints, and loaded them and new cards onto the site.

Tomorrow another day, and lots more to do.

Anxious to move through tomorrow and on to next week.  mixed feelings about 17th st festival - hope it goes great!!  and the weather holds off.

sad news about Lola Goya.  :(

Ha - last post was full of angst.

Had a good holiday weekend - worked saturday, went to pool.  Brunch and rockville Sunday, then dinner in Rosslyn with Marshall.

Felt like a good break, and very much the endish of summer.

Working hard this short week on preparing for Saturday - another big day.  17th st. festival and Dolcezza install.  Rain is predicted, so that's a bummer.  Right after I registered in July I realized I should have just done the 14th st. thing.  This year I'm not able to get out of it.

All has been going well.  Happy with my prints, and made progress on shirts.  Today though has been a challenge.  Low energy, and feeling spent.  Still got a lot done but it was with more effort.

Anyway - trying to stay positive and upbeat.  Hope all goes well next few days.

UPDATE:  Dolcezza got pushed back a few days.  I feel relieved.

Ugh - i really hate this time of year.

It always gets me down.  Lamenting the end of summer "freedom" and transitioning into the Fall.  Cold, dark, anxious.  It's bazaar cell memory from years of school and then bsur.  Fall always equaled stress, new challenges, and deadlines.  New designs had to be made.  The dreaded catalog season.  The days get shorter and colder.

But it's all just p e r c e p t i o n.  It's not that bad, but I just have this idea about summer, and I'm always sad to see it end.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I'm anxious for it to be O-V-E-R  -- for the world to kick back into gear after the annual AUGUST LULL that gets me down (also) every year.  Things grind to a halt.  Everybody is away on these fabulous extended vacations (EXCEPT US), and we live this left out / left behind existence.  By tuesday, things will go into fast forward, and suddenly I'm behind on everything.

It's crazy / I'm crazy, but it happens every year.  I wish I could break the pattern.  

so so

fun start with shoot with Kevin!, but then lagged trying to regroup later on.  Buying shirts is a chore, and finishing odds and ends on prints.

New work for Dolcezza coming out great - really happy with it.

Continue to feel the urge to make more "mobiles", but realize it's not so much a sellable / hangable / displayable thing.  So I putter along.

Bird print parts

Drying screens next the the dying tomato plant

messy crowded studio

printing a lot which means lots of screen making and cleaning and drying and scraping.  Dirty dry hands, and bleary eyes.

Low blood sugar at the end of the day.  Ready to call it quits.

ps - I forgot to record my SEVENTH anniversary working for myself yesterday.  Amazing to me that its been that long.

Out of the blogging habit for the past few days!

good weekend - saturday we made cakes for Sunday, and then I went to the pool.  only few more days open.  I keep thinking I'm going to take off work and go during the week.  But then I never am in the mood to do that.  I have such a thing against fun lately.  Anyway - weather has gone back to HOT, so it would be smart to soak up the pool before it's closed for good.

Cakes and meat turned out excellent for Dad's 84th Sunday.  Parties are always lots of work and a big whirlwind.  We arrived early and Hex was anxious to got the grill going.  All was perfect, so he was R I G H T.  I just remember lots of cleanup, and parcheesi.

Working on prints for Dolcezza, coming up.  Also finished up more new cards and sent them in yesterday.  Feeling creative vibe, which is great!