Block prints

Mom and I were totally trying to cram as much into the day as we possibly could. We finished nearly all of today's errands: picking up prints, picking up the mail, stopping by warehouse store, getting bread for dinner, each lunch, buy an ice cream cone to keep our strength up. We stopped by the house earlier today, in the middle of the errands, to check on her supplies, then dashed off to the local craft store, 50% off coupons in hand.

Mom wanted to try her hand at block printing.

Karen, Eric's sister, was a printmaker. I remember, years ago, maybe 2002, giving Eric's parents a block print Christmas card I had made. This particular Christmas, we were both Moxie sitting and heading down to Eric's parents' house for Christmas. Karen was also there, and was interested in the card I had given her parents. I had no idea she was a printmaker, much less a college instructor on printmaking. Had I known, I'm sure I would have been much too intimidated to give her parents a linoleum block print card for Christmas.

She was good natured about it, so I wasn't nearly as intimidated as I probably should have been. Her print works are amazing, but I didn't know this until after I gave her one of my block prints.

So, Mom and I are working on block prints today. Mom's print is a bird that saw on a card sitting next to us when we were trying to figure out what designs to start with. I stuck with the tried and true: an oak leaf and an acorn.