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I've recently read the book Craft, Inc by Meg Mateo Ilasco and am now excited about starting up my own thing using my handy dandy crafting talents. The book outlines what you need to do to begin your own bona fide business and also tips on how to keep it going. Also for Christmas, Curtis, my husband, gave me a book on printing by hand. I think I am going to dive into the world of screen printing. Of course, I don't know thing about it but I've read a book and searched on the internet and also have a few printer friends who I think can help me out.

All the possibilities of what I want to do have been swimming in my head for a couple days. I want to connect with my dog friends so I think I will start with graphic images of dogs, specifically Samoyeds. I have been thinking of stationary ideas and thought (for a brief moment) of designing pedigree sheets to write your dog's "family tree." People hand these out all the time at dog shows and why not do it with style? I'm not quite sure how successful that will be given the ease of computers and printers. Anyhow, I thought stationary and cards would be a nice start for this new venture. Today it dawned on my that I could print fabrics and then make a bag or maybe a garment from the printed fabric (not an original idea, I know, but I doing baby steps here).

I don't know, we'll see where it goes.

As far as us, we have been living in WA for a full year! We still like it despite the troubles we've had and the inability for Eastern Washingtonians to handle snow, but all-in-all, I think we may stay around for awhile.