Well hello peeps and a very Happy New Year to you all! I hope 2010 is fabulous for one and all and that we all end up in a happier place than we started. It’s been busy busy over at numsi HQ, working on wholesale stuff- still. It always amazes me just how long everything takes to get done on the admin side. Also, things just got super hectic in my other life as an installation artist with tectonic industries, where we just started a fellowship. For our year-long project, we are blogging the Oprah Winfrey Show in real time at www.anotheroneyearproject.com. This is taking quite a chunk out of every evening, but hopefully as my typing skills improve there will be less post-episode editing which needs to take place; we can but hope.
I am hoping to get lots more pieces of text wall art made for Valentine’s Day, photograph them and get them online in the next day or two. I am working on you + me, me + you, I love you, I like you, you are my sunshine and a couple of others. Any suggestions, please let me know! I have a spot on the Valentine’s Day Handmade Gift Guide over at IndieSpotting, featuring the text works as shown above. 
Other than that, like so many others, I am struggling to come to terms with the heartbreaking news from Haiti. If you have not done so already, you can text 90999 with Haiti as the message, and $10 will be added to your phone bill and donated to the Red Cross. I was also pleased to see that our local co-op, Mississippi Market are asking people to round up their grocery bill to help out. It is amazing how convenient donating has become, and it really seems that the element of ease is helping people give with a sense of urgency, and perhaps it allows people to keep on donating small amounts. I am very pleased to say that we have donated one of our new numsi gift sets to the Indie Fixx Haiti Relief Fundraiser Auction. Each day Jenn over at Indie Fixx will showcase some donated items which readers can bid on in the comments section. All proceeds go directly to the Red Cross. Please bid generously and check back regularly. Every bit helps the unspeakably terrible situation over in Haiti.
Final news, on another note entirely I met with the most lovely photographer yesterday, a recent graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design where I am sometime faculty (my adjunct hours can’t even really be described as part-time). I am very very excited to hand product photography over to her- I can’t wait to see the images she takes!
OK, back to work- I am embracing Twitter in a much bigger way these days and it is amazing how one feels so much more part of a community of like-minded people. It is indeed an awesome awesome thing. Have a good one people!
PS. Coming soon…
