and what's worth keeping, sun still sinking

first, a huge thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts, comments, etc about giz. we had her little body cremated and scattered her ashes (along with a handful of magnolia petals) in the creek where we took her on walks. it was lovely, dusk and gorgeous out.

second, our sweet fuzzy olive has to have insulanoma surgery a week from today to remove a growth on her pancreas that is messing with her blood sugar levels. the vet tells us her surgery is so non-intrusive she won't even need antibiotics after, but it's still kinda scary. it'll be nice not to have to hand-feed her every few hours though.

so i haven't talked about artfest yet! honestly it was... interesting.

highlights: the ridiculously gorgeous port townsend (and the drive up there), taking two classes from the amazingly kind, funny and honest nina (she put me in her photo album!), spending time with my bff kris, making art for three whole days, meeting sweet tyn, julie and emily, going to tracy's lomo lecture, finding lots of heart rocks on the beach, selling both of my pieces at the gallery.

not so great: very absent house-mates (except for wonderful gretchen) and drama (blech), kris getting to take only one class (out of 9) of her top choices, crappy trades (sorry but a business card is not a trade!!! or if they are i spent *way* too much time on mine). overall it was a good experience (even if it got cut a little short) but i'm not positive i'd do it again. we'll see...

ps - i added my super-cute (if i do say so myself) little found-paper notebooks in my shop (with new designs coming soon!).

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