Hey peeps, sorry I've been AWOL for a while. I've actually been working in one form or another and moonlighting on my other blog for a bit. So between writing lessons plans for a new class I've never taught before and reading tons of published journals and diaries for it, taking care of some health problems (don't ask; believe me, you don't want to know, though it's nothing serious, just embarrassing), looking for other money-making endeavors, having a birthday, catching up with friends, and . . . you get the idea. Life: it interferes with work so often (but in a good way). I have, however, gotten up to no good, too.
I'm happy to report that I have the mock-up of the body is as solid as the thought that holds it in place, the collection of Carlos Schröder's poems that I've been working on possibly forever. The mock up is currently in Argentina, where Carlos is spending the summer (those lucky profs), and apparently he will have to pry it out of his mother's hands to bring it back. She lets him "borrow" it when he's wanted to take it to his editor and book-selling friends down there. Moms, they're just like that. Pics of that, when it comes back from vacation.
So in the meanwhile, I've been practicing making more blank books and giving them away. Well, the making part, anyway. I'm pretty good at the giving away part. Here's two of them, with more to come as soon as the others are out of the press and I can take pictures. (Click thumbnails for larger pics.)
I'm off to buy more paper tomorrow at Blick's sale. I want more of these fun hot chocolate paper, since I screwed this one up and had to use that pretty watered paper for the back cover on this one. It makes cute books. I've made some sort of happy mistakes with this and decided imperfection is just an excuse for crafty improvisation. I had the most fun pasting up little cut-outs of the cover paper on the inside of the books though. Some of the crayon ones came out fun. And my sewing is getting better, but I've decided I need more thread now, of course. Especially after I went fabric shopping with Gr
etl on Sunday and found some beautiful silky polyester in a faint lilac color with an oriental plum blossom print on it. The next experiment will be making book cloth. So, yeah, purple thread is definitely in the works. And guess what? Volcano Arts is having a sale on it! Yay!
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