Ahhh, I must take a break. Parasitoid flies, invasive ants, effects of invasive grasses on herbivorous insect assemblages, survey of chaparral and river terrace communities... These are the papers I am writing concurrently. Ouch-ee.
So I will blah-blah-blah about my other developing project: Crab Apple Designs. This is the name of my soon-to-be-official crafting business. A blog [Edit: now an active link!] and etsy store front are established, but so so naked right now. I'm doing little things between school projects to get ready for launching this summer. Mid June, maybe? I have thyroid surgery scheduled at the end of May. After that, I can put all my energy into building up inventory.
The littlest things can become SO HUGE when you want to get it perfect. I've spent about 8 hours (until 2 last night and up again at 7 this morning) trying to find this one exact font to use for my banner. It's beautiful and I want it and that's that! Well, *hurray* because I finally found it. Now it is added to my growing "shopping list" of things needed to begin the funnest part - makin' stuff!
Because Harvey was SO generous with Valentine's goodies this year (he always is!) I thought I would start a new tradition of making him a Man-Easter-Basket (a Measter Basket?). The Peep image is one I drew in Inkscape and printed on an iron-on to make a very manly peep t-shirt. Note: unless you are using a white t-shirt, select the iron ons for dark colors. Harvey is now the owner of a translucent peep shirt.
Later this week, I'll post some photos of some inspiring designs - paper and fabric - acquired over the weekend that are sitting in my little cabinet (and under my butt because one is a chair cushion from Ikea) making it very hard to concentrate on parasitoids.
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