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You all have heard the expression "a little birdy told me"---well, that is the theme I've been working on the last couple weeks.

I was contacted by a book publisher who wanted me to submit a couple of designs for a book on potholders and I was brainstorming to come up with some ideas and that phrase came into my head---yeah, a little bird told me! Here are a couple of the finished results.

I made up three different potholders, all different from the next, and submitted them and, of course, they wanted one design but done up in the colors of the other one with some adjustments made! LOL So, back to the drawing board! I did finish up the revised one yesterday

and now today I have to write up the instructions. Let me tell you, writing instructions is not as easy as you might think. I

have a tendency to be a little too explanatory, and end up writing a novel instead of some simple instructions, lol.

I used to submit designs to magazines and books quite a bit in the past--and have been published quite a few times (I guess around 20), so it's not like I don't know how--it's just that it is a process for me. I write one and then whittle it down. Then I re-read it and do some more whittling, etc, etc, etc! It is so nice now that you can do it on the computer. When I was doing it in the past, it was done on my handy portable typewriter! Man, was that an all-day process! So, wish me luck that I can get them done in a comprehensive manner and that the publisher will like both my revised potholder and the instructions enough to put me in their book!

Oh, and now I have a couple new items to put in my Etsy shop--so far I've listed the little skywriter one in blue and purple.

Have a great day-- and Smile!