Christmas 2025 is Coming part 1

 We are at the end of November right now, so that means time to start thinking about this year's Christmas card.  It takes a while to draw, cut, print, and color the cards, so if I want to get them out even close to the holiday, I have to start now.  Towards that end, I have been looking at potential art historical works, both on the internet and in books, and have narrowed it down to a few options, and I will have to decide soon.  Meanwhile, today I worked on preparing a piece of wood.   Last time I was in the Studio, I noticed a piece of wood that might work, so today I cut it in half, and then glued to two halves together.  The goal was to create a wider piece, something that would hold the entire piece of paper on it, which makes it easier to print them when the time comes for that. (a single piece of wood is large enough to have to card image itself)  Results can be seen below:

My plan in the coming days is to pick a subject, draw it on the longer half of the block, and when I am satisfied, cut the whole thing out, which can be done in a single session at that size.  Throughout the day I added more glue to each side, so now I have a stable block.  Whether or not it will hold together during to cutting and printing processes is another story, but I'll deal with that as it happens.

The other thing I had to take care of today was find out what is going on tomorrow.  Last night my mother saw something online about an open studio event at my building.  Problem was that I had heard of no such thing, and I had been in the office a few days ago.   An open studio is the kind of thing I should know about, especially if I am going to participate.  So today I made sure to ask.  What I found out was that there will be a holiday art market going on in the building tomorrow, and from how these have gone in the past, this will be heavily attended, but few people will go down the basement, and the building will make no effort to get people down there (holiday vendors will be on floors 1 to 3) so there is no point to me hanging around in my space waiting for visitors.  As a result, I won't be going there tomorrow, and will wait for the next official open studio event to open up my space to visitors.