Trial slugs

Now, in the next couple of weeks I'll be opening shop at cafepress, they take care of the printing, order-handling and shipping, providing a hassle-free experience of e-commerce to people without the experience or the technical skills required otherwise (like me).

The only thing that remains in order to take the plunge is to check the quality of their products, and in order to find that out I've prepared these two images, that I'll send to cafepress in the next couple of days to get a couple of sample products.

Like cat and mouse

"Cat and Mouse" was a game we used to play when I was a child. The rules were pretty similar to "Hide and seek", you had someone playing the predatorial cat, trying to catch the slippery mice and the mice had a safe space where the cat wasn't allowed.

The twist to the game was that you as a mouse had to work toghether with the rest of mice in order to get everybody safely to the "nest". This didn't allways work out the right way, sometimes a mouse had to be sacrificed for the communal good.

There was some children who would allways want to play the cat, and some others who wouldn't play anything other than mice. I, for one, allways wanted to add the new concept of "the bird", but sadly it never caught on...

Irati hybrids

Last weekend we were away from Madrid, for a little escapade to the north of Navarra. There is a beautiful beech forest there (the second largest one in Europe).

Irati (that's the name of the forest) reminded me of the "little people" that I imagined when I was little, walking in the forest back home in Falkenberg.

I think it's quite a common fantasy to think that the forest is filled with strange creatures, there is something about the forest that just gets your imagination going.

My creatures were hybrids between human and insect, and the only reason why I couldn't see them, was that I wasn't patient enough to stare into the woods for long enough...