First, how do you like the site’s re-design?  I’m diggin’ the new banner but worried that the blue-brown is a) cliche and b) a bit dark.  It’s still winter, after all, and something about this brown just doesn’t feel quite as happy as I’d hoped it might.

After several days without mail delivery (the horror!) due to DC’s epic snowstorm I got quite a full mailbox on Friday.  Most happily, the newest issue of Uppercase Magazine arrived all the way from Alberta, Canada.  For some reason issue 3 just didn’t really work for me– I’ve no idea why.  This issue, however, I tore through in about… oh, 4 hours: my mind spinning with a hundred ideas too.  So nice to get a burst of color in what has been (and will probably continue to be a dreary Feb).

I hope you’ll go out and find a copy (or order one from their website) so I’m not going to share all the amazing things it contains here but I’ll tell you about these gems:

• There is a mailbox gallery (seriously, it’s called Mailbox 141) in Australia and Girl Printer displayed prints of envelope security patterns there.  Love!
• Three Potato Four is an online shop and blog I wish someone had told me about A LONG time ago.
• An Abecedary [sic] of writing!
• Oodles more too.

Just as I finished the magazine: SUN!  Late afternoons of full sunlight and snow– they are what remind me why this is my nook.

A few random things:

• I cannot stop listening to Hem’s Rabbit Songs.
• Is it weird that I want a new table cloth bc I take 75% of the photos for this blog in my nook at my table and the orange oil cloth is just not working as a background?  Considering something in a muted teal…
• Trying to figure out how to break through my fear of “ruining” nice notebooks.  I need to figure out a way to keep an ongoing book of “things that catch my eye.”
• Thinking about a Halloween costume that could involve a rubber stamp bandoleer.  Maybe “Super Mail Girl?” or “Revolutionary Postal Carrier?”
• The American Odyssey Relay is about to soak up a lot of my time: running, logistics, cheering.
• I’ve updated the “Keeping Me Inspired” section on the right– it was time.