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Well, there isn't any way at all that print #15 in this series is going to be finished by the (self-appointed) deadline of the 15th of this month, but that's not a factor this time - this print is going to be a bit 'special'!

Part-way through the production of the previous print in the series (#14) I made a bit of a change at one point - cancelling a plan to use mica powder on one of the blocks. People who had been following along with the process accepted my decision to do that, but some of them did express (slight) disappointment that they would thus miss a chance to have such a nicely decorated print in their collection. (I'll ignore the fact that somebody expressed it as "I would like to see some bling!")

So I kept that in mind when perusing my collection of prints and books looking for a suitable candidate for this next print. I should mention at this point that designs #17 and #18 (the last one) have been decided for quite some time, and I thus only have two spots left 'open' - 15 and 16. Looking back through the work done to date I see that although it is indeed quite a 'nice' set of prints, we don't really have anything kind of 'spectacular'.

Now, common sense right away jumps up and starts yelling in my ear, "Dave, don't even think about what you are thinking about! These are small-scale, quite inexpensive prints. People are . . .
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