gocco & candy

What better way to chase those post-holiday blues than to play with your presents? As I mentioned before, Jeff got me a Print Gocco for Christmas, and BOY do I love it. It really is so much fun - it's pretty easy to use, and the results are exactly what I was hoping for. Here are the results of my first go at it - I did a little doodle of some tiny folks, strolling I suppose, and of course I had to get my name in there somewhere...



I printed it all over all sorts of paper (it's hard to keep the master once you're done, so most people recommend printing a lot of stuff before you throw it away). The white stuff is just some thin white stationery paper, and I was pleased to see that the ink didn't bleed through at all. Now I have some nice personalized stationery! The hot pink paper was a gift from my parents - a bag of acid-free paper scraps, nice.

Also from the 'rents - I mentioned that Dolores the bear reminded me of ribbon candy, so when my Mom saw some of this old-fashioned treat at her grocery store, she got me some! Mmmmm. I liked the clove flavor the best. Here's one of the artsy fartsy pics I look before I started eating all of it.