Seeking card distribution advice!

Thanks for the congrats on my letterpress card news. At present, you can get Blush cards in certain stores in the UK as well as NotOnTheHighStreet.com but they are still looking for a North American distributor so UK shipping fees won't be involved. If anyone out there has any ideas, please do let me know and I'll pass them on.

I can't really sell them in my Etsy shop because I don't make them myself and although I could sell them on my own, I would rather have someone else deal with admin and payment and shipping. Any suggestions welcome!



Lots of snow in Toronto yesterday. My instinct was to cocoon inside where it's cozy and warm but I forced myself to bundle up and venture out. I try to get off my butt and seek out some real exercise for at least 30 minutes every day, no matter what the weather.

Sometimes I go to the gym, and sometimes I go for a run or a power walk. For me, the biggest challenge is getting out the door. I usually start work around 6:30 or 7 am and by 4 pm or so I'm either dead tired or so much into my work that I don't want to stop.

Most of you work outside of home, so you get outdoors no matter what. For a hermit-type like me who works at home, however, it would be SO easy for me to hide away in my basement office all day (and evenings, esp. now that I'm painting many nights), immersed in writing, drawing, painting, and songwriting.



I don't exercise just to keep fit. I find that if I don't, my creativity starts lagging and I also get stressed way more easily.

Once I'm outside, I'm always glad to be there. Yes, even in a snowstorm! Don't know about the rest of you, but I'd much rather be out there in the blustery cold (as long as I'm bundled up) than melting in the summer heat.



Cafe Pleiade has become one of Jeff's and my favourite dinner restaurants in Toronto, and not just because of the fantastic food, cushioned benches and cozy atmosphere. I'll wager that Chef Stavros Tsimicalis is one of the only restauranteurs in Toronto who is also a published poet!

I've posted a review of Cafe Pleiade in blogTO, if you're interested.



Tonight I'm getting together with some of the blogTO types. I've never met any of them in person, so it will be nice to finally put faces to some of the names.

Links O' The Day:

Photojojo store: I just found out about this store through the latest Photojojo e-mail newsletter. Holy cow, I am SO drooling over some of this stuff. I already have the magnetic photo rope in my office, which I love (just $10!), but the custom-made photo bags look SO COOL, with a much wider range of choices than CafePress. I may treat myself to one of these next year once I sell some more art.

And a reminder to those you writers out there or those shopping for writers, don't forget to check out my list of Gifts For Writers, Librarians and Bibliophiles.





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