Slow progress

My first order for the year arrived in Antwerp harbour 2 weeks ago. I still find it exciting when the pallet is placed in the driveway and I can get the guys to do the hard slog of moving the 100 kg drums of Extender Base into the garage. Then I can check if the order is complete, unpack what is necessary and relax - I have enough stock again for the next few months. Sometimes I treat myself with a little "gift". One of my suppliers makes beautiful, stylised stamps. I don't import it to sell, just for my own use, as he is quite expensive and the profit margin is too small.
So, thinking of a way to share them, I started printing on my stock of handpainted fabric. You can see a few examples here. I'm very pleased with the result and am making them in series of 9 or 12 of the same image (although being handpainted the background is never exactly the same) to be sold on the stand at the trade shows. I might also put them up in the website shop:
www.trapsuutjies.com.

And here are numbers 3 and 4 of my series with linocut figures:

This one is called " Piggy in the middle", a space which I have often in my life had the misfortune of occupying. But one gets wiser with age, remembering past experiences...

...which sort of leads me to the following (edited) quote from Twyla Tharp's book The creative Habit :

"While most people ....think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative,....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember."