stream to river to ocean

sometimes synchronicity or connection just occurs: 

i got an email

asking me for a sheet of printed paper,

warm colors and fairy wings

were what gabby was thinking about
(this IS my kind of order!)

and last night she sent me a little link.

you should go there.

gabby is finishing up the rigorous two year course at

north bennet street school, studying binding
and aiming to be a designer bookbinder.

 my first bookbinding teacher was a total surprise

someone i met in the tiny IGA in star lake

the late sally smith

 renown designer bookbinder

spent several hours with me

helping me make my first hardback book.

sally worked wonders in leather

and taught in london.

gabby is following a similar path.

meanwhile fiber has always lead me

to new and startling adventures

gabby took some of these and made her own work

as did jean
who knows all about the difference one small stitch
can make

my three melbourne books,

oz books, 1, 2 & 3

~~~

i am so hoping htat

this class with dorothy caldwell

at lovely longridge farm

will deepen my making into work that is richer

than i have dared go before.

why else do it?

to gabby and to jean,

thank you. 

this week i have been playing

with a few pieces of kozo graciously given to me

by nancy jacobi at the japanese paper place.

interesting results, and GOOD learning.
mixed in with tim ely's teaching.

seeing what these papers and plants and waters and pigments

will teach me

is enough to keep my brain dancing

as i sort it out and push myself forward.
this is good work for spring.
~~~
then there is a little rest
and then off i go to the morgan
to teach two classes, one a new one
four days with aimee lee and me, laughing and playing and working and making fiber/paper/textiles.