Forgive me?

I've been terribly neglectful of the PurrPrints blog lately, and all the people who have been kind enough to leave me comments. I didn't think I had anything to say because I haven't been doing much with my cat art recently--all my creativity has been going to two places: my dissertation (I've officially begun my study--blare of trumpets, please!), and the new content and design over at EtsyGiveaways. However, it suddenly dawned on me (about 5 minutes ago, actually) that there was no reason not to share those little tidbits though--especially the EtsyGiveaways one.

I'd be delighted to know what you all think of the new design and content--either in comparison to the old one, if you've already been there, or just first impressions if you haven't been there before.

Oh and for those of you with shops on ArtFire or other places outside Etsy you might be interested to know that we're now taking any independent handmade giveaways at EtsyGiveaways, which I'm also very excited about (there are so many beautiful ArtFire and Dawanda shops I've seen).

So anyway, sorry about my absence--I can't promise I'll be back to every-other-day posting again soon because my dissertation study is keeping me extremely busy right now, but I'm still reading and enjoying all of your blogs and I really appreciate your comments on mine!