A gorgeous inky mess Lest you think all is quiet on the home front…I’ve been silent recently because wedding season is in full swing and, besides Charlotte, the thing I’ve spent the most quality time with lately is the press. There will be lots of beautiful invitations and albums to show off just as soon …
Rooftop astronomy Lately, the moon has been in a triangle with Venus and Jupiter, all 3 brighter than anything else in the early night sky, with Orion close on their heels as they all fly west (more correctly, as we spin east). I mark my nights by the angle of Orion relative to the tops …
Custom wedding album & slipcase It’s one thing to be busy and go on and on about it (see: almost all previous posts). It’s quite another thing to actually show off what it is that has kept me so busy. There are a number of custom wedding albums, binding of family letters, wedding invitations, etc. …
In the last few days, the air has changed. It is not so humid; it is easier to breathe. October is my favorite month. Yellow leaves are falling outside now and even here in Brooklyn, where the colors are beautiful but somewhat less than spectacular, the change of the seasons is palpable. Sunlight comes into …
Our new-to-us Challenge MP-15 press, in storage in my dad’s wood shop for a while. I know this press is meant to be ours because when I went out to meet it for the first time, it had its own Charlotte-in-residence. I saw a brilliant little brown spider and egg sacs galore on her web. …
