I've got my tarot cards done. To the left is the final design for the face cards. I've erased twice my ranty rants. I don't feel any better ranting, don't feel any better not ranting. But I am sick of humans. Not all of them, but a great many of them. Anyhoo, I have to figure out what the other side of the cards are going to look like and finish my portfolio of them for solicitation. Feels really good to be just about done with a project that ridiculously big.

Book collection number II will be available soon. It focuses on my Etta Diem character and all of the neo-victorian and steampunk work I've been doing over the last year. As hard as it's been not to post new work constantly, I wanted to keep some of it to myself so I could offer it like this and have the book be pretty much unseen. It's like buying a box of Reese Peanut Butter cups and forcing myself not to eat them all without inhaling. Anyhoo... this image links to the pre-sale. Like with the first book, the pre-sale offers it at a discounted rate with a variety of limited edition extra perks. I've sold out of my first book collection and have been waiting on my second printing batch of them before offering them again. Ah the joys of spring selling. It's probably the worst time for a seller who isn't offering spring type items or booze. Spring Break always guarantees booze sales.

I've got so many things to do that even my obsessive habit of "to do" list writing to organize myself isn't working. Making the list just made me more shocked at exactly how many things I want to get done within the next two weeks. I'm a person with many ideas, good and bad, but always with some ideas. If I could actually put even half of them into action I would probably be shocked at the results. But I do ideas easily and find the task of putting them into motion to the point of completion to be my weakness. Myke is the opposite, he starts an idea and doesn't stop till he sees it done. He's rubbing off on me a little, but I'm still a person with ten million notebooks of ideas and projects and only a small fraction of them coming to life. I need employees. I need people to supplement my weaknesses. Man, I should employ all those nieces I have...

I think I have an addictive personality. When I get the urge to do something I just do that till the desire to do it runs out for a little bit. Lately its been jewelry. Mostly necklaces. Tonight I started working on making decorative fans. Spring seems to bite me in the ass with the crafter bug. It was spring like here too, for about two hours. 50 degrees, nearly kind of balmy... now some strange cold wind has blown in and is knocking the house around and making a noise while everything is frozen. Joy

This is a new painting done by Myke as an album cover for Vernian Process. It's quite beautiful. He's been selling prints left and right of a print made just from the airship in the painting. But now the whole painting is available for anyone interested. I believe there are still some smaller prints available from the painting that accompanies this one that he did as a commission for Abney Park. In other words, you want steampunk paintings we got steampunk paintings. That should be spoken aloud in the voice of a man at the ballpark trying to sell you peanuts or hot dogs.

I've also put up some of my new ink collages for sale. All of which can be found either on my blog, bethalynnebajema.com/scriptorium or our etsy shop, ettadiem.etsy.com.

PS: Remember the valentine cards you got as a kid to hand out in school?
I have my own version of them here ;) Now for adults, of course.

A sample of the swords suit from my Sepia Tarot. It's nearly done, lots of yays are being said.
The last card at bottom is a sample of the actual card design.

New artwork from my tarot collection. Limited edition metallic prints to be found here.

This is just a quick note about my books and those who bought them. My books arrived in Taunton MA, today right at the last day of their delivery promise, thankfully. However, I'm still in GR in MI finishing up what I came here to do. I'm leaving for MA tomorrow afternoon on the bus. Upon arrival all will be signed, packaged and sent off into the usps ether to you. Thank you again for your orders. There are two left on my etsy page, but otherwise the sale is now over.

Was I talking about how much my boyfriend rocks? Yes, silly me, I was. Well he does. So if you only remotely browse my entries, I at least suggest you pick one link of the many I put in here, and go look at his work. It's for Abney Park, and at least half my list at least has to dig Abney Park. And if you don't, why don't you? They're just an incredible band who apparently, though I didn't know it at the time, I've have various former members as friends these years. Speaking of which, go visit Kryzstof just because his pinup work is great. But mostly, I want you to go oogle my boyfriend's painting because I got to see the real thing, and watch him paint it, and I was awed by the process.

My apologies for the variety of dual posts for those on more than one of my journals. It's time for another short print sale. Prints are on hand and ready to ship same day or within two days of order. They come packaged like this (the top prints are decoration, the prints themselves are inside the wrapping). All the other details are on the order info post found at this linkie. I've also got the very last of my older work for sale for $6.00 a print. It's mostly pre-2001 work that I no longer get printed up or honestly keep on my site anymore. If there was something older of mine you liked, it's possible it's there. As always, there is stuff at the etsy store of both mine and Myke's. Speaking of which, I wish I could find this a home before I replace my original purse with it. End sales pitch.