Postal saga update, also Cockatoos

[feng_shui_house]

The USPS sent me email asking me to give feedback on the customer service several days ago, and again this morning. The first time I ignored it because I was hoping the package would miraculously arrive.

It hasn't arrived, but about 2am it was tracked to the destination STATE, so that's something. So, 20 days and counting for a service normally expected to be 2-3 days.

You can imagine the feedback I gave. It was nice that they had 2 text boxes I could fill in a LOT.

So maybe it'll get there, and maybe the contents will be intact. *fingers crossed*

Last night I managed (ow, my mousing/keyboarding hands) to finish the recreation and extensive repair of an Art Nouveau Design. Very tricky-there's a book full of what SEEM to be seamless repeats, but actually the artist had made them I think as showcases to get jobs, so they ALMOST repeat and anyone trying to just copy them without paying would soon realize it would be much easier to pay the artist to do it.

The partial design has been used for products (posters mainly)for sale lots of places on the internet. I don't think anyone else would do what I stubbornly fixated on. Drawn entirely by mouse, each color in a separate layer, changed the non matching parts to fit in, using a lot of judgement where the original was more of rough blur.

This is as close to the original intent as I could make it- the bird with folded down wings was pretty much my extrapolation.

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/21295284-art-nouveau-cocktoos-magnolia-stripe-by-eclectic_house

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/home-decor/bedding/pillow-sham/21295284-art-nouveau-cocktoos-magnolia-stripe-by-eclectic_house

Then I fought even more to make the stripe into an allover. I quite like the way the new background color works with this version.
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/21298591-art-nouveau-cockatoos-and-magnolias-allover-2-by-eclectic_house

Comments

[vera_j]

Ha! I hope the saga has finally ended now?

Ooooh, I love your Art Neuveau design, it is exquisite!!!! Royal!!!

[feng_shui_house]

If I get a delivery notice on the tracking I will HOPE it's over. At this point, I'm not confident they'd take it to the proper address. You know what they say 'it's not over until the fat lady sings' (I think that was about opera?)

Thanks! Once I've spent so long working on one design I like to reuse it, so I'm making other background colors, and I think I might try to make it suitable for a square pillow cut and sew. :^)