update, i'm still here

The calendars, the calendars... They're coming along nicely. I got started last Friday after a delay in my paper shipment. I got everything all set up on Friday afternoon after a morning of finishing up blind stamping stationery -- set the plate, inked the press, turned it on and: clunk! grinding metal! Thankfully, it sounded worse than it really was. My press has an automatic wash up that I don't use and it had somehow gotten jostled to where it was in contact with the cylinder. Not good, but nothing Ben couldn't fix. Lucky me.

So. The black text is almost completed – just November, December and the front and back covers left. Though I usually blind stamp first, I decided to do the black ink first followed by the artwork. I'll finish up with the blind stamp – after all, there's no reason to blindstamp a piece that hasn't made the final cut. It's an awful lot of printing and my arm is a little sore from all that cranking. Let's see, I've printed 1500 calendar pages so far ... I begin to see why for long productions a motorized C + P might be a blessing!

Also – an update on the Good Morning America piece on Liam. It has, as of now, been postponed til Thursday. I will update as I hear more... Please tune in! If you're new to this blog, you can see the previous posts about Liam here and here.

Here are some pics of Liam and our cat, Loki. She's really not all that friendly, so it's pretty cute to see the two of them together.