As much as the twice yearly catalog projects I manage at C&T Publishing tend to take over for my life for weeks at a time, it sure is great to have something tangible, beautiful even, to show for my team’s efforts. I am more proud of the new Spring 2010 Catalog than of any other catalog C&T has published since I began my employment there.
As with every project, not everything went exactly as I wanted and there are a few things I would change about it if I ruled the world. But considering how many people the catalog has to please, I’m extremely happy with how it turned out. Every time I look at it I smile and do a little victory dance in my head for the beautiful pink rhino on the cover. YES!
The pink rhino quilt on the cover is from Serendipity Quilts by Susan Carlson (page 29) and the quilt at the top is from City Quilts by Cherri House (page 26). You can download the entire catalog here on the C&T Publishing website.
catalog front cover
Well my punishment for getting a speeding ticket a few months ago finally arrived the other day. If I want to do traffic school (and save the point on my record and resulting insurance hike) I must pay $271 by December 17th. The good news: I have some time to save up for the payment. The bad news: My options for holiday gift-giving are severely limited. I’ve already decided not to participate in the Secret Santa thing at work. And I’m pretty sure my friends have stopped expecting anything from me gift-wise at holiday time. But this still leaves my immediate family and a few special buddies that I just can’t remove from my “Nice” list this year. So I’ve been wondering what to do and have come up with a few ideas so far:
#1 I am going to raid my Etsy shop. There’s only 4 items left in it, but they’ve just been sitting there so… <shrug>. I hate to give slow-movers as gifts though, so I am not sure this will work unless one of the items just happens to start screaming the name of someone on my list.
#2 Shirt.woot.com. The T-shirt of the
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I had more fun than you did on Halloween. Guaranteed. And I knew I’d be able to say that before I even got to the party. You end up shooting the shit with people on BART from Oakland to SF when it’s Halloween night, the Bay Bridge is shut down to traffic, the train hasn’t moved for 10 minutes, and you find yourself smashed between Kim from The Real Housewives of Atlanta and a Wild Thing from Where the Wild Things Are. You ask where they are off to for the night. They tell you. You say “that’s cool.” Then they ask where you are off to in your awesome nun costume. And you, or I actually, get to say “why Treasure Island, of course.”
