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who said computers make life easier?who said computers make life easier?

Because I’ll tell you,it hasn’t felt like that lately! My laptop died expectantly last week. I was in the middle of doing something when some of the keys stopped working,the screen went blank and it started emitting a high pitched beep and then nothing. So I had to get a new one which [...]

The finished sketchbookThe finished sketchbook

I’ve been working on my book for the sketchbook project non stop all week. Here’s a look at a few more of the inside pages:

Once I finished embellishing all the pages I stacked them all up and measured the width of the pile to determine what size to cut the spine. Because [...]

more sketchbook project progressmore sketchbook project progress

I started to feel a little worried that the pages of the sketchbook were not going to hold up very long under a lot of handling. My first thought was to use heavier paper but that didn’t feel right. The rules say you can do that but I felt like that would be a waste [...]

working in my sketchbookworking in my sketchbook

So I mentioned in my last post that I had signed up for the Sketchbook Project (my theme is “lines &grids”) and that I was planning on re-binding my book. Well I cleared off the worktable and got started on it yesterday. I thought there might be some interest in the process of taking [...]

grungeboard journals,kits &the sketchbook projectgrungeboard journals,kits &the sketchbook project

Since I had the grungeboard bin out I decided to make a couple more journals:

Both of these are in my etsy shop here. I got a lot of emails about the one I blogged about in my previous post asking if this journal was part of one of my online classes. Unfortunately it is [...]

Paper bag journalPaper bag journal

It’s been a while since I made a paper bag/grungeboard journal…

Hard to believe that background is a paper bag isn’t it? It’s even harder to believe when you hold it in your hand,you’d swear it was leather…

keychain books &a giveaway!keychain books &a giveaway!

I was about to start a couple of big projects in the studio this week but found myself missing a few key supplies. so while I was waiting for them to arrive I decided to use up some of my book board and paper scraps:

These all measure 1 3/4″x 3 1/2″and [...]

book making

I’ve been doing some book making lately. I finished up these two small hardcover books earlier this week. I had made the text blocks inside these during a demo when I was teaching a book making class at the Danforth Museum last year but never got around to making covers for them.

each book [...]

new journalsnew journals

Well I managed to get two more of the new journals with zippered pockets done this week:

I also went through all of my inventory of books that I’ve made as class samples,prototypes for the book and other books I just never got around to photographing and added them to [...]

a new fabric journal

I haven’t had much studio time the last couple of weeks because one of my dogs has been very sick. So between running back and forth to the vet every day and taking care of her I haven’t had much energy or really any desire to be in the studio. Thankfully she seems to be [...]