Bird-Heart-Bird

They're back!

I had to give my bird-heart-bird cards a little holiday (right when they were in a rush of selling, too!) because all my block-printing gear was packed up somewhere in the mountain of boxes that is our lives right now... But yesterday I found the box at last! I set everything up in my New Studio Mk I (it's in a transitional phase at the moment) and started printing. What a good feeling!

So here they are, out in the open again, happy silver birds. I've already sold four that were on "back order" and I've put more in my Etsy store.

It's good to be printing again!

L'Oiseau

Today was gorgeously sunny and breezy and carefree – a true Northwest Spring day – so I left all the doors and screens open to bring it inside. When Berry and I came back from playing across the road, she pointed in the kitchen and made her bird sign and a little bird noise (the bird noise has sounded more like a kookaburra since Australia).

Surprise: there was a tiny bird sitting on a chair in the kitchen! It wouldn't go out any of the doors and kept trying to crash into the picture window, so I had to catch it and release it outside myself. First though, I caught this photo of the little bird sitting on top of Berry's Easter basket.

(It's a little fuzzy but hey, it's a wildlife shot!)

Shiny Birds

A fun way to welcome Spring – our sparkly silver block-printed bird greetings have been introduced on Etsy. Every card is individually hand-printed, using original designs carved into a linoleum block.

We've printed stationery sets and greetings like Bird-Heart-Bird and Birds Like Cupcakes Too.

Well, they do.