It’s been a busy week around here, and the weekend has been non-stop! My baby brother has been in town visiting and we’ve walked all over, seen lots, and had a great time. And, just in case you haven’t been outside in New York recently…it is 100%, without-a-doubt, officially summer! I’m pretty sure the flip flops I’ve been wearing are almost worn through the soles and, while I seem to have escaped a sunburn, we’re all pretty bronzed around here.

I’d like to think I’m getting better at taking the occasional break from all things paper, but there’s always a little bit of a whisper that it’s about time to make some more covers, or tear some more paper down, or respond to emails. So…keeping with Sundays past, some fun new covers to share with you, from the most recent batch of really beautifully colored Japanese papers.

(I mean, how much do you love that chocolate paper with the blue bean burst pattern?!?)

And because everything needs a little poetry…

Eve’s Design
By Moira Linehan

Then there’s the Yemeni legend
of Eve in the Garden knitting
a pattern on the serpent’s back,
the snake unfinished like the rest
of creation, the first woman
thinking to add design, a sheath
of interlocking diamonds and stripes
along that sensuous S,
knitting giving her time to learn
what’s infinitely possible
with a few stitches, twisting cables,
hers a plan to mirror the divine
inner layer that can’t be shed
no matter what it rubs up against.