Yesterday I was heading out the back door with a bucket of pristine white pulp, a few moulds and deckles and some other stuff to take up to my shed and I dropped the bucket, it broke into pieces and pulp went everywhere, I managed to scrape up most of it and the chooks took care of the rest, they loved it, the picture shows when they had eaten half of it, when I came back later there was nothing left, I hope it doesn't do anything strange to their digestive system or the eggs! They seem fine this morning though no eggs yet.
I managed to finish off the paper for the wedding programs yesterday along with some plain paper for cards. Next year I am organising an exhibition celebrating
IAPMA's 25th birthday and it will be a silver show. All IAPMA members were sent a piece of silver paper to use to create something for the show. The silver I used is made in Italy by Quill and I came across it because MJ wanted it for her wedding invites and because I printed off one set of slips with the wrong information, I had lots to recycle. I just used a blender to pulp down the silver and combined it with some recycled black mountboard to make my Christmas cards and a book for the Silver Show. For once I am way ahead of the game, closing date for entries is 1 August 2011, mind you I haven't bound it yet, I'm still deciding how to go about it. I printed on the silver for my Christmas cards and used the same punch I bought for the wedding invites.
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| Front of Christmas Card |
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| Inside |
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| All the sections of the anniversary book |
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| Inside one of the sections |
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| detail of cover silver on black |
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| Detail of inner cover black on silver |
I realised the other day that I had nothing left in my etsy shop so it is time to make some more books. So far I have only arranged one and haven't even bound it, I'm still deciding on the thread. That is today's challenge once I get off this computer. I recently took a range of my journals and a few artist books down to
Open Drawer a textile shop, gallery and workshop space in Hartwell, very close to where I live.
Last month I taught a cyanotype workshop for
69 Smith Street Gallery and when I came home I exposed some organza using a peacock feather as the mask, they are beautiful pieces but I am not sure what I will end up using them for, I was a little surprised that they worked so well because I had kept the mixed chemicals for a couple of weeks before I coated the fabric, then I left one sitting in the dark for a couple of days and the other for a couple of weeks awaiting time and sunshine. I bought the chemicals from
Gold Street Studios and their service was fabulous and the chemicals were beautifully packaged.
Yesterday I was heading out the back door with a bucket of pristine white pulp, a few moulds and deckles and some other stuff to take up to my shed and I dropped the bucket, it broke into pieces and pulp went everywhere, I managed to scrape up most of it and the chooks took care of the rest, they loved it, the picture shows when they had eaten half of it, when I came back later there was nothing left, I hope it doesn't do anything strange to their digestive system or the eggs! They seem fine this morning though no eggs yet.
2 comments:
Slow down! I'll probalby think about my bit of silver paper for months, and a few brilliant ideas which I'll completely forget and hoepfully get another flash of inspiration just before the deadline!!
The current IAPMA bulletin is again fab. I really like the red lines going through it. Which programme do you use for book layout? Is it a headached to do?
Joanne
I am definitely not usually this far ahead of the game, I just had lots of the silver paper to recycle. And who knows I might have mislaid it or superceded it by the time August comes around!
I use InDesign for the Bulletin and each time I do one I learn more, this was the first one I did on the mac not that that makes much difference since the program is the same.
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