Happy (belated) New Year to everyone! I can't believe it has been nearly 2 months since I last posted! Note to self — write more posts for blog in 2011. :)
New Printer in the House
Santa brought me a New Year's gift last week (What can I say? He must procrastinate as much as I do!) It's the Epson Stylus Pro 3880. I'm thrilled to finally retire my nearly 10 year old printer, the Epson R1800. It was a great printer (wonderful color), but the seemingly endless nozzle clogs and empty ink tanks had me pulling out my hair. The 3880 is a lot larger than I anticipated, but it can print very large prints. Look for some of those appearing on Etsy in the near future.
NASA Contest
On another note, I've decided to not enter the final judging of the NASA & Etsy Space Contest. I'd submitted my bestselling print, Celestial Staircase, and did not read the fine print as I should have. Granting the "Sponsor a non-exclusive, fully-paid, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicense-able and transferable worldwide license to use, reproduce, transmit, display, and distribute" my image is a little more control over it than I wish to give them. But, that quoted sentence ended with the phrase "in perpetuity" — that was the clincher! I'm too fond of it to kiss it goodbye.
Adobe Illustrator
I've decided to make a resolution this year — to make friends with Adobe Illustrator again. I've had it installed on my computer for years, use it on and off for odd jobs, but for the most part, it sits there collecting dust, neglected and begging for use. Although I've claimed in the past that my brain doesn't function in the means necessary to become a skilled Illustrator user (think Robot from Lost in Space: "Does not compute, Will Robinson."), I'm going to make it my new bff. Look out Photoshop, there's a new kid in town!
