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| Humming-Bird Hawk Moth Caterpillar Mixed Media Sketch |
Hello there
Hope you are thriving (and doing exactly the amount you do or don't want to do at the moment).
For my own part, I meant to do so much, and yet, somehow...
Here's the thing. This August feels so *pressured* for some reason. Maybe it's all self-imposed, or maybe you can relate?
Anyway, there were *so* many things I meant to do this week. To present to you, and to to help you with. (Yes, I see you, honestly, all the people to whom I've been promising more YouTube videos since forever...).
Here's the thing. This August feels so *pressured* for some reason. Maybe it's all self-imposed, or maybe you can relate?
Anyway, there were *so* many things I meant to do this week. To present to you, and to to help you with. (Yes, I see you, honestly, all the people to whom I've been promising more YouTube videos since forever...).
And then there's that "tariff" word...
As you'll know if you've spent any time here, I do my very, very best to avoid politics here altogether. If you love happy and whimsical art, you're welcome here, and that's that.
But as the elephant has made its way into our actual room here, it feels like there's little choice but to say something.
But as the elephant has made its way into our actual room here, it feels like there's little choice but to say something.
To anyone worried about tariffs affecting their shopping for my designs, my best answer so far (after hours of searching, and-unsurprisingly-very little previous knowledge of international trade) goes like this:
"Everyone's geographical situation is different, so my trying to say anything here (or even steer all my designs into one place) wouldn't help a bit, and might make things worse. Please just get to know what's best for you personally, wherever you are, and I'll do my very best to accommodate that if I can, in considering in which shops to place designs."
"Everyone's geographical situation is different, so my trying to say anything here (or even steer all my designs into one place) wouldn't help a bit, and might make things worse. Please just get to know what's best for you personally, wherever you are, and I'll do my very best to accommodate that if I can, in considering in which shops to place designs."
Luckily...
Luckily, online downloads remain easy to access wherever you are, as far as I know... (I'll be introducing new items to my Craftsuprint shop soon, for that very reason).
So, obviously...
So, obviously, the only thing to do in response to all this weirdness was... to hang out with the caterpillars. :-)
For context, we had had a humming-bird hawk moth visit our window boxes a couple of weeks ago. She was verrry interested in a particular plant with "pinwheel" leaves that was growing rather rampantly in our box we dedicated to wild flowers a few years back.
For context, we had had a humming-bird hawk moth visit our window boxes a couple of weeks ago. She was verrry interested in a particular plant with "pinwheel" leaves that was growing rather rampantly in our box we dedicated to wild flowers a few years back.
(I say "was" growing rampantly, because six caterpillars make incredibly short work of an awful lot of leaves. Which, in our case, suited us just fine, and probably saved us a lengthy autumn tidying/weeding session :-).
And so it came about that our enticement to live in the moment once more has come, this week, from an insight into the not-so-tiny and voraciously-eating lives of six fat caterpillars. Who I strongly suspect may have been the inspiration for the Very Hungry Caterpillar young children's board book by the late, great, Eric Carle (Affiliate link proudly placed to leading to the book back there. Because who doesn't love a book that-as far as I remember- has pages actually *designed* to look munched?)
And so it came about that our enticement to live in the moment once more has come, this week, from an insight into the not-so-tiny and voraciously-eating lives of six fat caterpillars. Who I strongly suspect may have been the inspiration for the Very Hungry Caterpillar young children's board book by the late, great, Eric Carle (Affiliate link proudly placed to leading to the book back there. Because who doesn't love a book that-as far as I remember- has pages actually *designed* to look munched?)
Artistic License?
I'll keep you posted if we see anything progressing with these really now rather large creatures (1.5 inches each at least, and growing by the day).
In the meantime, in the interests of accuracy, I'll close with The Computer Man's photo of one of these beings, so that you can see that I have liberally used artistic license, in giving them extra and wider pink feet, and, um...eyes.
I'll keep you posted if we see anything progressing with these really now rather large creatures (1.5 inches each at least, and growing by the day).
In the meantime, in the interests of accuracy, I'll close with The Computer Man's photo of one of these beings, so that you can see that I have liberally used artistic license, in giving them extra and wider pink feet, and, um...eyes.
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| Hummingbird Hawk Moth Caterpillar (Photo by Jim Fernbank). |
And with that, I'll leave you to your day.
Thanks so very much for being here, *and* for reading down this far.
More soon.
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Thanks so very much for being here, *and* for reading down this far.
More soon.
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