february is the cruelest month

Do you know this line from T.S. Eliot?

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out off the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

Well, for me, February is proving to be the cruelest month – at least as far as the calendar printing is concerned. I'm on my second go at printing the month of February. It's almost the end of my day in the studio now and, I have to say, it's not been going well. I've got the color spot on now – but that paperwhite bulb! It's troublesome. There's just this very faint bleed of color that is making me crazy. It's on the right hand side, that root that is reaching down the page. It's hard to see in this photo – but, believe me, it's there. I know I could let it go, keep on printing, but I can't. This won't be a surprise to those of you that have been reading my posts already.

So here is what I did: I cut 35 extra pieces and reprinted the ones that weren't just right. It was just one of those days, filled with interruptions. {I'm trying to finish up a layout for some wedding programs and work up an estimate for another client in between printing, too.} I'll reprint the text on those 35 pages. I have to ink the press in black one more time to print the back covers anyway so it works out fine.

Oh, and another thing about today. I met Jess Chamberlain from Sunset Magazine who wrote this lovely piece about Satsuma Press on the Sunset blog. She was in town for work and was able to come by the studio for an hour or so. It's fun to be able to finally put a face to someone I've been emailing with for a while. It's funny how much and yet so little you can find out about someone via email, isn't it? I like the face to face meetings best of all, though.

And one last thing ... The Good Morning America piece on Liam – postponed til NEXT week now. Keep checking here for updates, though. I will post whenever I hear a final air date.