Ndiyazikhupha!
I’ve been cutting cloud shapes as I plot my escape: Next week has been marked out as a week of no blogging, no tweeting, no emails, and my shop will be in vacation mode too. All this is in order to give myself a week of thinking and planning, designing and plotting, with breaks for tea, coffee dates, yoga, and the occasional nap. I’m so excited to be taking this sabbatical, and am grateful to the awesome Molly (who helps me out around here) for giving me this brilliant idea by carving out a week-long escape of her own.
So, in the words of today’s incredibly well-timed Xhosa tweet from Xhosafundis: Ndiyazikhupha, which means, “I’m taking myself out!”
Oh, and my cutout below is called, appropriately enough, “Escape”.
See you all soon!
jan
oh i'm soooooo jealous! enjoy!
milobar
Great idea, enjoy it. I will miss your posts. And beautiful cutting – tell me you are going to do something with it.Maybe a nice print that can be framed?
alex sunday
enjoy!most enviouus….
ibb
Great idea to take a week for other kind of work. Personal working.Have a nice week, enjoy and come back full of energy.
Helen Rawlinson
I'd love to fly up and sit on one of those floaty clouds! Enjoy your space time.
Lisa
Enjoy your self-proclaimed and designed retreat! It sounds perfect! You are so smart to do that…it is so important to break from the chaos…to get to the real work
nath
sounds great – i admire your resolve. and that is a beautiful paper cut.
patricia zapata
Enjoy! I seriously may need one week off myself.
Candied Fabrics
Enjoy! ANd love the new papercut!
Jillian Kay.
OKAY. I have this couch you will LOVE. I think it would be super super awesome inspiration for the towels you make! Sorry I know its kind of random but I was looking at your towels today and it somehow clicked. Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you an email of the picture (I don't want to creep on you by automatically doing it)xo!Jillian
Heather Moore
Thanks for all the well wishes – why don't you all take a break too? It sounds like everyone needs one.Jillian, I'm most ingtrigued by your couch inspiration notion! Please email me a pic – I'd love to see.
CrowNology
Oh.Beautiful.Andrea
Jesse
Enjoy the break! And that cutout is truly lovely.
Ashley
please say some version of these cut outs are going in the store. they are gorgeous!
linda
ok – that papercut HAS to move to sweden, to make my livingroom wall the prettiest in the country. are you selling it by any chance? if so, please email me at: fin_form@hotmail.comand by the way – i visit your blog almost every day and really love your work! 🙂
arounna
have a wonderful break!
mintz
It looks like a japanese-inspired cut-out. 🙂