slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: book arts
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I think that I’ve pulled myself together again. It’s been a a little over a week since Guido passed on, but really the whole bad situation started last December. In a way, it is a big relief that I no longer have to make the decision, and certainly it is a huge relief not to…
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The Sheraton Sonoma is also a marina on the Petaluma River. This was the view from my room on Friday morning, Sept. 21. Albie Smith was really the teacher I came to see in Petaluma. It wasn’t that I felt that she had bookbinding techniques to teach me that I could only get from her.…
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I’m drinking my little pot of coffee kind of late this morning, but I have already taken Theo to the vet for a bit of maintenance on his back side and taken my car to the carwash. I actually had to wash my car in order to drive it to the carwash – it was…
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I just bought a wonderful book by Jill Berry titled Personal Geographies. I have always been fascinated with maps, as long as I can remember, really. The World Book Encyclopedia was my playground, and the maps were my very favorite parts. I made up different map games to amuse myself. I pick up maps everywhere…
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I am a featured artist at Elements Gallery for the month of December. Most of my work is in a beautiful wooden cabinet near the front window and my two precious sunrise tapestries are hanging on an endcap on the right near the back. I’ve added a colorful cotton scarf and a rustic little woven…
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Covers done with woven painted paper, coptic binding, acrylic color washed papers. I folded a few pages so that you can stick stuff in them like business cards or receipts or lists or love notes or photos or whatever.
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I’ve made one similar to this before. I just love these old nature illustrations. I download them from eBay and print them on my Epson printer. It reminds me of looking through my great aunt’s old books back in the 1960s when I was really little. You could entertain me with a set of encyclopedias…
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This is an altered book that I’ve been working on WAY too long. I finally reworked the cover and voila, it is done at last. The pages are acrylic color washed Rising Stonehenge papers.
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It’s been a great weekend so far. The Elements reception went well, and everybody really liked the cheese and apple breads I baked. I went by Zaytoon and picked up a couple of their spreads to go with them, and tried to give them some advertising all night. So many wonderful small local restaurants have…
slowly she turned 