Odds and Ends

I’ve been playing with type again:

I’ve set a quotation of AA Milne’s, but I haven’t printed it yet, because there’s a line that’s not quite tight enough. So. . . I guess I haven’t actually finished setting it, but you know. . . practically. To keep track of the letters as I picked them out of the tray, I wrote the quotation backwards, since that’s how you have to set it. I taught myself to write backwards at university; it was the only way I could take notes in some of my deadly dull classes. It gets harder to do if you don’t keep it up, but it’s still a fun trick.
Here’s another nice photo:

Rob hung this shelf for me above my printing area. I bought the shelf and brackets months ago, with the intention of fixing it under my craft room window, but then I bought a bookcase instead (my favourite bookcase), so it had been shoved in a corner. I thought it looked a bit stark, so I made this length of bunting this morning, to frill it up. Rob still hasn’t decided what he thinks of it (that is to say, he hasn’t come around to liking it — I think his exact word for it was ‘froofy’).
And look at the pretty tulips! They’re Easter tulips — from my parents! They’re not really living up on the shelf (too high for proper viewing), but I thought they’d look nice in the photo.