January 21st, 2012
And even more new pipes! There are four new Ligne Bretagnes (Two cutty shapes and two bulldogs) but the bigger news (Speaking literally, even...) is 2012's first Goblin, a Japanese folklore-inspired little monster for anyone who's a fan of fat pipes.
January 13th - More new Ligne Bretagnes! Following on with my intentions to try and get a bunch of them onto the site early in the year, I've just posted three more, including one exquisitely wicked black sandblast.
January 11th - Happy New Year! I'm a bit late with the posting, but it was a busy start to the year. I've just posted three new Ligne Bretagnes to the catalog - A black sandblasted bulldog that will most likely be first to sell, plus a tankard and a funky little straight faceted Rhodesian. There will be more LBs to follow, as we have 7 others in the works right now and I want to put up a lot of them to kick off the new year. I can't say what the Talbert schedule will be like at the moment - Got some orders I want to get done, and an early start on a couple of long term projects.
Behind the scenes here, I am quietly working on several things at once - I've pulled out all my diagrams for my epipe ideas and have been struggling to bring that long-dormant project a little further towards reality. I have some good ideas, maybe, but in many ways it is a challenge to break my thinking out of the traditional pipe design parameters in order to produce a workable epipe. I'm also working on the 2011 Gallery pages for the site... Something that I don't want to let drag on for four months as in the past. And then there is the gradual evolution of my personal hobby, the Kentucky Fried Popcorn movie review site, which is going to be getting some format changes this year in the form of a cast of cartoon characters who will interact with each other and the movies being reviewed. I wanted to do something a little different than the typical movie review site format of textblock-screencap-textblock-repeat. We'll see how it goes. All in all, 2012 looks to be a busy year with lots of things happening, and it should be productive if I get even half the things I have planned to a finished state.
Oh, and for those who might be curious, this month's little doodle above is something I did with my new Livescribe smartpen (Probably will be writing a blog post on this eventually) in honor of the Chinese new year this month. It's the Year of the Dragon, an event that definitely calls for a special pipe somewhere down the line...
