We ended up with a welcome day to ourselves on Friday, since we had both taken the day off, thinking we’d head to Iowa for a wedding. Between the incredible flooding and damage being dealt with in Cedar Rapids and the ungodly expensive plane tickets, we nixed those plans. Instead, we headed up […]
Category archives: art
Ample lives
May 9, 2008, 3:46 pm
At the tender age of 14 (it may have been 13, now that I think of it), I took a nine-week bookbinding class taught by Joan Soppe, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I didn’t know at the time, of course, that it would tap into skills and interests of mine that run so deep. […]
A shape that satisfies
April 21, 2008, 10:28 pm
This was a Monday full of nice surprises and progress…could you ask for much more in late April?
As someone who has a self-professed paper, book, and printing obsession, I spend a reasonable amount of time looking at blogs and sites related to all three. Today, I was completely surprised and flattered to find a […]
Invitations redux
April 6, 2008, 9:58 pm
So I have a problem with patience, namely that I don’t have much. Especially when it comes to my own work, I get extremely impatient with the progress I make, and tend to see individual leaves instead of the forest. It turns out that, when I step back and look at my progress […]
Catching my breath
March 15, 2008, 8:15 pm
After my last post, my best friend and loyal blog reader told me she could sense the urgency with which I am wanting to find a letterpress of my own, so I won’t delve into the details of my antsiness any more right now…but I am still looking!
This week was a little busier than recent […]
It’s no surprise…
February 11, 2008, 10:35 pm
…that I have more new books! I had a productive (although too short!) weekend of bookbinding and am thrilled with the results. Lots are already up on Etsy, and a few others are heading to Campbell Steele:
I’m making a lot of wedding albums these days…which (for one reason or another) I […]