slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: book arts
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Making recycled paper Making and writing and painting and drawing and glueing in journals – some are altered books Yes, I already spilled something on the “Sticks and Stones” journal, made with pizza box covers and my handmade paper. Here’s the first handbound book, covers made from a Kandinsky poster book, paper made by Susanne…
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It is getting harder and harder to post here, because for one, I am art journaling on actual PAPER (yes, it does still exist) and two, every time I get online I am totally distracted by this wonderful new Yahoo group that just started. Everyone is excited and enthusiastic and it is very busy with…
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Sort of, anyway. I took most of Squirt and Mama Kitty’s fur to Susanne, who is adding it to a batch of pulp for our papermaking day June 14. She is going to show me how to make the paper and then let me go at it on my own all day. I’ve made the…
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I carved this stamp of Squirt today. Mama Kitty’s will be along soon. I think it will look good with dark brown ink on gold paper. Today I was playing with Lumiere metallic gold paint, the alphabet stamps that Rice gave me, and some stamps that I carved. I’m right pleased with this stamp.
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Another device to help me focus: a list of my works in progress. I’ll post about these and photograph as I actually progress. From the oldest to newest might be the best way to go, although I doubt I’ll proceed in this order. Fabulously ugly scarf III – still on the floor loom in the…
slowly she turned 