https://www.etsy.com/shop/artsyletters Happy Halloween! My Etsy shop is on break Oct. 19-26 as I travel for some author school visits. I’ll be shipping out orders again the week of Oct. 31. If you’re in Beaufort, SC, find some fun spooky gifts at The Beaufort Emporium and at Nevermore Books! Mwah-ha-haaa. — Robyn
Happy Fall! Got some good books to enjoy with a comfy chair and a mug of something steamy, as nights turn shorter and cooler, and days are filled with cascades of color? This “Fancy Fall Leaves” bookmark will keep your place while you go grab a shawl!
Antique pen nib earrings with Swarovski crystals… available at The Beaufort Emporium (Beaufort, SC) and soon in my Etsy shop.
Happy Almost-Summer! I’ve been enjoying making earrings with antique pen nibs (many 100+ years old) and Swarovski crystals, no longer being produced as components for the wholesale trade. These pictured have sterling hooks and fun vintage links as well. They’re available at The Beaufort Emporium in downtown Beaufort, SC.
I’ll list them soon in my Etsy shop, which is currently taking a little break. See you back there in mid-June-ish! Feel free to send an email or a message through Etsy if you need to reach me before then. Take good care, Robyn
I sketched the tiger in pen and ink, but filled in the fur with snippets from Blake’s draft of “The Tyger” from one of his notebooks (copied from a reproduction in Peter Ackroyd’s book, BLAKE). Lucky for me, there were lots of heavy black scratch-outs!
To see the poetry postcards I received and for links to and about Blake’s poem, click here for my author blog post.
Thanks for a holiday season so busy I didn’t even get a Christmas post here… If you’d like to read my recent newsletter, click HERE.
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been….
Rainer Maria Rilke (in a 1907 letter)
Wishing you a healthy and joyous 2022. I look forward to making all kinds of new literary-ish creations this year! (To see & hear the quote above being typed out, just click the link.) :0)