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  • Saturday morning coffee pot post

    Wow, at 10:20 a.m. the heat index here is already at 105 degrees. It will definitely be an indoor weekend for us. Sandy is not supposed to go out for long in temps above 85 and I’ve never been able to take the heat. One of many reasons I’d like to move to northwest North…

  • I made a very tiny batch of paper last night – only six small sheets but that’s better than nothing! It didn’t bother me so I think if I use a small vat so that I don’t have to carry a heavy container of pulp then pulling and couching the sheets should be okay. I…

  • Tonight I am drying and pressing the sheets of paper I made on Sunday on this groovy little dry mount press that Susanne is lending me. (Lending as in, you can have it until I need it again, which will probably not happen.) I’m going to “lend” her my greenhouse in the same way. I…

  • Book with recycled basil blossom paper

    This paper was made with any kind of brown paper I could get my hands on, leftover plant fibers, and lots of dried basil blossoms. It smells nice. The paper was a little bigger than the cover, but I decided not to cut it down to fit. I like it sticking out. The cover was…

  • New books

    Finally took a few photos tonight. This one is definitely for me. It is made with both recycled handmade paper and commercial writing paper. The cover is made with an envelope that Rice sent to me – too precious not to reuse! The binding was a bit tricky because I used lots of different scraps…

  • Papermaking

    I find it interesting that every papermaking session is different. I thought that the iris/abaca pulp would be almost just like the corn shuck/abaca pulp. But I ended up doing everything backwards from the beginning. I thawed out half of the frozen pulp in the vat, so I decided to add water to it instead…

  • Papermaking in Susanne’s studio

    It’s not often that I get photos of me, so here I am in all my glory. Susanne’s daughter Sophie helped me break in the new camera. Susanne’s husband John fed me scuppernong grapes from their vines. The paper is made of corn shucks and abaca fiber.

  • Belated Mother’s Day card

    I honestly didn’t forget Mother’s Day. I just thought that it was next Sunday. I didn’t see last week’s Sunday paper, I don’t watch TV (at least, not on the television set), I don’t pay any attention to ads, and I’ve been so spacy that if anyone has talked about it in front of me…

  • What I’ve been doing

    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…

  • Memorial book in progress

    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…