january book arts doings

other news

small stuff:

to those of you who are so supportive

i've made a second special edition of the Little Shifu Book, 

because so many people have asked for it.

the cover is an original contact print on arches text wove

and inside there is a little shifu square

made with lokta kami-ito.

 it's available over on the new site via the button.

here's a photo taken mid-making.

also completed, 

 5 star books,

using up old prepped book parts...

one open to see the five pages

 and a long book from my stitchscape series,

number 3.
working on more, now, too.

all sewn with kami-ito on iowa or cave (flax) case paper 
or in this case 
st armand heavy weight.

 made with off-cuts from

the work of friends.
(most of them were recycled in my 
winter papermaking intensive)

 it's tall or long depending on your point of view.

 at the fold the earthskeins change inside to outside.

i do that sometimes. 

 and i threw in some leaves
and a quote from isaiah.
all are antidote to this 
horrible election.

 aimee taught me bookish corners

which i am practicing

and will continue to till they are in my toolbox

of a brain.

 here are some of the off cuts 
and one cave flax paper scrap that i printed.

 book parts and mind wanderings.

 here's a little double weave pocket with an indigo surprise.

shifu.
i'm thinking of making a home for it.

 here it comes

 and... ta DA!

 i'm just done with the editing of my article for handpapermaking magazine.

about shifu and healing

due out in the summer edition.

~~~

this thing looks to me like a mind map.
disconnected dots,
or connected thoughts.

the light factory

up behind the fenced in garden

here's home,

home on the ridge

where the deer and the mink sometimes play.

my old farmhouse was viewed by some amish shoppers yesterday.

it would be cool to have 

the old place go back to old ways.

we'll see.

outside the neighbor dogs are

all riled up. 

hard to tell the difference between them 

and their coyote cousins who are causing the ruckus.