dry pages

 you can see the pages

 this photo has truer colors

muted

quieter

 the sunlight made them dance

more then they actually were

nonetheless i am pleased

there are sixteen pages

waiting for story

detritus from cbbag fair

i would have put one K down

for george walker's new book about tom thomson

if i had it kicking around

or at very least i want to sit down with it sometime 

it was amazing.

i met some wonderful book people, 

and visited with papeterie st armond folks.

and took my sister claudia to a celebratory lunch

a duck walked by our table

only in ottawa: fine art,

fine food

quack 

a good day

saturday seemed to be a low energy day for me. 
but it wasn't really.

i ended the day by opening up a bundle of shifu pages i had wrapped last weekend.

the bundle included frozen violas and hollyhocks
bloodroot

aluminum, rusty steel, my well water and vinegar.

this shifu was bundled around a bloodroot rhizome 

nice striping 

not a flying saucer 
a bundle of shifu pages, layered with dyestuff
wrapped in old cotton sheeting
and tied 

unwrapped  

the bottom 

the wrapper 

the stack 

not for the faint hearted if slimy stuff is a problem 

spent flowers 

the pages, in order of stacking 

they will dry and wait several days
then i will rinse.

saturday morning i planted my indigo babies,
then my sister and i went to ottawa for CBBAG fair
(more later) 
and we ate at canal ritz

this is how the day ended.

friday aimee thoughts

it's friday. 

one more week of hooligans. then some wrap up at work, then my summer begins. 

today is cool and sunny and lovely lovely lovely

twined gourds 

made from aimee's first korean hanji 

and inked hanji 

 last night aimee came for a rather thrown together me, talk, supper, and tea. 

she brought me a little present, two actually.

we talked and talked and poor wendy whined as stormy weather made her nervous.

i slept well, very well.

wednesday i rode a horse, modeling for a student,

who rode longer...and smiled. from her heart.

horses, hanji, talk, friendship.

 something's brewing

viola flowers,

a few other flowers, bloodroot, aluminum, steel and vinegar are all a part of it. 

i think.

class at the Morgan Conservatory

should you have any inkling of joining us at the morgan, 

there are links below to the morgan and to the facebook pictures, etc. 

i would love to have you join me!

cleveland, are you ready for paper spinners? 

 i'm teaching what i'm calling 

north country shifu 

at the morgan conservatory on june 25 and 26.

lokta and cotton 

a page from "changed"

North Country Shifu is an experimental workshop in which you will explore

the gentle art of cutting, spinning, and weaving and dyeing kozo. We will

experiment using drop spindles, and bobbin winders (acting as spinning

wheels) to spin cut kozo, and then weave on different simple looms. You

will experiment with a natural dyes including black walnut. The Morgan

Conservatory has been growing Kozo for the ...past five years in their

garden and you will have the chance to work with some Kozo paper that was

grown, harvested, beaten and pulled into sheets right here in Cleveland.

At the end of the workshop you will leave with a sampling of spun, woven,

and dyed kozo. This is a class for sampling, for beginners, or for more

experienced weavers come with a warped loom and weave with your spun kozo.

You can register online at

http://morganconservatory.org/tabs_paper_pp.html or by calling

216-361-9255. You can also see the event on facebook at

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=112554105490735

if you have any questions, contact the morgan, or me.

new tools

she always wraps things in this thread

 i knew they were coming

two new tools 

little fat leather weights

just the right size for my small bookwork 

so i scattered some of my stuff with them

just for fun 

they smell delicious

thank you shanna. 

www.talasonline.com

www.strikemetals.com

dairy princess parade

 st. lawrence county has lots of: cows and trees

 a scary day

 canton's dairy princess day, 

a little before the crowds arrived

 seriously. a dairy princess

 the princesses

 made in vermont but very good cheddar

 stuff i don't eat

 our guy: frederick remington and his rushton canoe

 !!!!!

 the local feed store

and some ducks willy nilly

this looked to be one of the few totally home made booths, sad to say.

a busy saturday.

 i went home and napped. 

twice. overnight in the woods wore me out.

in and out of the woods

 we took our class, or rather some of our students, into the woods. two stayed overnight with us. our sister program joined us, they had four overnighters. four adults, six teens, and a camp to ready for the summer school kids.

 "our" camp is part of a boy scout camp.

 the biggest job is putting in the dock, and the morning we did this, the temperature started out in the low 40s. by this time, mid morning, it was still cold, but the 50s are a bit better.

one student said his heart was beating hard, racing from the cold.

he was a wee bit worried, but i reassured him.

i didn't go in.

 a camp-themed textile

 this is a stuff sack, from the 70s

 beautifully sewn

 patches from summer trips, camping, in the u.s. northeast and canada

a funky treasure, something i might have made. but i didn't.

adirondack...

...chair.

tomorrow we spend a day and overnight 

readying camp for summer school camping.

the weather has moderated. 

windy, cool 

this means the black/deer flies and mosquitoes 

will be somewhat suppressed. 

this student just finished his chair.

a variation on a theme.