Well, it's that time of year--Boone has pretty much turned into a snowy wasteland. Regardless of the snow and ice--the store's been open so I've not had many snow days to catch up on art or anything else, really.
The holidays kinda came and went in a blur and being at home for a week kind of made me lazy. So I'm mustering up some art motivation and gonna dive back into the books soon, I hope.
Got my first book order of the year on my Etsy shop the other day, shipping that out on Monday. I'm pretty excited about it actually. I modified the perfect binding style I usually do. Typically the covers are glued on top of the spine (the way I do it), but this time the covers got wrapped with the spine. So it's a little more streamlined. I like the look of it and think I might start making my books this way.
In other news: my computer's hard drive crashed last night. I knew it was coming, I've been saying for months that I needed to back it up but did I take my own advice? Of course not. SO now I've gotta get a new computer because I depend pretty heavily on photoshop for my books and...the internet for my facebook and etsy addictions. You know how it is, right? ;)
This time around I'll be purchasing a terabyte external hard drive right off the bat and backing up everything. I'm also going to see if I can get my photos and documents recovered from my hard drive--here's hoping.
Anyway...once I get a new computer and all I plan on working on some new book forms/ideas. I want to dabble in recipe books/boxes and see what I can come up with. That's my next venture, I think. I'll post some stuff once I get into that for sure.
