Are you ready for a new year? Why not set yourself up with something pretty and functional?
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2018 Calendar
A few illustrations going into the 2018 calendar.
I'm 2 drawings away from sending the 2018 calendar to print!
I expect to have all of the designs finished by this weekend, so here's your chance for a deal! Give me a vote of confidence and I'll give you $5 off (regular price is $25.00).
You'll get 12 full color 6 x 11" calendar pages each illustrated with a 5 x 5 full color reproduction of my drawing. The color and quality of each page is suitable for framing if you want to look at it for longer than a month!
All Abuzz, a new print
Finally, a new print! All Abuzz, a celebration of National Pollinator Week, is now available!
This print is 12 x 12" on archival paper. As a limited edition run, they come signed, dated, and numbered. $4 of each sale go to HAWK Matthews, a chapter of the NC Wildlife Federation. Out of my own excitement, I've discounted shipping through June 25: Free throughout the US and just $5 to Canada!
Major Tom, major progress
Charlie's been working hard on the camper while I've been preoccupied with the state's plan to put a highway in front of our house.
The camper is finally structurally sound (no more rotting wood) and waterproofed (no more leaking windows). The windows all crank open and closed. A craigslist score allowed us to upgrade from the original non-working stove to a working vintage stove/oven combo!
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I did spend the better part of an afternoon scraping old window frosting film off the windows. Hand cramps be damned, the windows look good as new!
8 Likes, 2 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "The unglamorous details...scraping off aged frosted window film. #majortom #serroscottycamper"
After countless emails and phone calls to my new BFFs (NCDOT) we figured out the process of getting a title for Major Tom so we could get him on the road! *Hint* Get yourself out in the country to a DMV office and they have a better understanding of what it takes to title a vintage camper.
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The inside still needs a lot of prettifying, but we can finally hit the road and camp! Who's ready for summer?!
Lately
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Fox turned 4 a few days ago and we felt it was finally time to give him a real birthday party... of course, by real we meant him having friends over to play in the yard and eat cake and cookies. We strung up a bunch of balloons, threw down some table cloths and called it decorated.
The real work was getting the gardens tidied and a little less wild. I mean, I love wild gardens, but wasn't sure the parents of his friends would feel their kids were safe in such a wild place. {To be clear, it's totally safe, but appearances and reality are different.}
So we tidied and cleared and junked and mulched and composted and dug and planted and watered and ended up with a kinda respectable looking yard. Of course the kids didn't care what it looked like, the parents didn't scurry their kids away in horror. All in all a success!
5 Likes, 1 Comments - Renee Garner (@wolfienthesneak) on Instagram: "Giant herbal #plaintain (weed to others) looking from one garden to another. Worried to lose the..."