It’s already another whirlwind of a week, and I’m a little short on pictures, but have been up to plenty! I’m working on a design for a new photo album with leather covers, and I also just finished sewing up a coptic stitch photo album from the gorgeous green dotted paper from Kunokuniya (pictures […]
Category archives: influences
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 single light
April 27, 2008, 8:54 pm
I was born and spent my early childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, where our family lived and my parents worked as set designers (at the Emmy Gifford Children’s Theatre and Firehouse Dinner Theatre, among others), built stunning furniture, and created and printed intricate engravings and etchings, doing more art fairs in one year than […]