Just another update, though this time a little more brief than the last journal.

Things are going better, my mom has been more positive and less stressy though our conversations are farther and few in between, so it has been giving us time to just chat about the simple things in life than giving her reasons to unload anger. Happy with this and just hoping it doesn't change in the future.

Art is still going, trying to get as much work done as I can! Ellis has been off of work for the last three weeks which has been a little more hectic around the house. We've not opened up about things that have been going on, but we were wed at the start of the month in a small ceremony, so I am officially Mrs. Oss now. To top that off my sister in law gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, the first female in the family for 21 years. We've had a few days here and there for day trips out to go on walks in the National Trust and a few to visit the princess.

We didn't take a honeymoon due to things in the last journal message, and I've been working through his time off and doing all of the needs around the house before he goes back to work.

As far as PawPrinting goes, we had some trouble over the last few months with my printer seizing and were on the verge of throwing the entire thing out of the window which has been incredibly disheartening. Feeling like you've failed in something you've enjoyed with things outside of your control has been frustrating, but funds wouldn't let us replace the printer. We had been trying all sorts to get things back up and running and with a little luck (well, a lot of luck) it's running cleanly. We'll have to take precautions for next year to try and solve the heat issues if we have a hot summer again. As we've got it up and running again we will be running smaller deals for folks, and clearing out some of our stock blanks to other people in the industry to focus on a few items than keeping loads of stock in now - it's taking up too much space especially with the next part of this journal.

The other amazing news is we've ended up with a large format printer, though this will be offline for the next month or so until I can put funds into a new set of cartridges. It was honestly "in the right place at the right time" situation and I think all I got out of my mouth was gibberish when it happened. We will be able to do custom stickers, art prints and posters once we can get everything we need for it. This is the same printer style that produced our wedding photographs and wedding album, so I know the quality of this thing is incredible. Finally we'll have a cost effective way of producing artists prints. \o/