22 July 2006
Post, post, post, that's all I do these days. I suppose I'm trying to distract myself from all the work by talking about it! Anyway, you may have noticed that I haven't been selling any prints for the last. . . few months. But to celebrate closing my old PayPal account (which was linked to my American bank account which I've also just closed) and the opening of my shiny new PayPal UK account, I give you two new prints:
Okay, so I actually printed these quite a while back and then couldn't decide if I liked them. Turns out I do! If you'd like to help me inaugurate my new PayPal account, you could buy one of these for £5! (Note that that's 5 pounds sterling, not American dollarses.) There are only two (two! It was a trial first-printing of this image.), so e-mail me (anna.torborgATgmail.com) quick as you can, and I will send you a request. If this text is struck out, then it means they're no longer available.
Other things!
Firstly, a book I made. Okay, okay, Ayun wrote it, and she also drew the illustration on the cover, whatever -- but I published it. Or rather we did. In the UK. A few years after the American release (this is The Big Rumpus with a makeover). But never mind about that! I can't get over how vibrant the colours are -- it's always a tense moment for me when I take out the cover Cromalin -- will the colours be too dull? Will it totally lack oomph? This one has craploads of oomph! I've had a blast working with the lovely Ayun Halliday, and you should scoot over here and religiously follow the virtual book tour during the month of August. Do it!
Oh yes, and the card. I'm very much in love with this little mini patchwork card I made. It'll soon be flying over the seas to land in America. I've been keeping in touch with one of my college professors, if you can believe it. I'm just about the worst correspondent you can imagine, but it's been important to me to write to her. I like knowing what's going on in that bit of the world, and I like having somebody to share my successes with (besides the entire internet and all my friends and family -- that's not enough!). And I always think it's a shame that there are people out there who have influenced my tastes and choices, and they just seem to disappear once I've moved on.
Which reminds me, did you know they're tearing down Mr.D's? Tragedy.
How funny! I've just been on 'So Close' and Tertia has been reviewing the book and now I come here and I find you're the publisher. This blogging world is such a small one sometimes.
It looks like higher forces are instructing me to read the book...
Pxx
Cover is GREAT - I love the font
posted by paola at August 4, 2006 08:05 PM
I love your patchwork card. I have been designing some myself and selling them locally. Great to see.
posted by Tiel S-K at August 14, 2006 06:36 AM