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Category Archives: altered books
How to Make a Memory Pocket
This is my Memory Pocket for World Book Night, April 23, 2023. It was mailed to Bristol this week and should get there in plenty of time.
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Tagged art, artist's books, book arts, bookbinding, free printable, instructions, Make Your Own book, paper folding
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Friday Night Flicks: Alison Stockmarr
Tonight’s flick features Alison Stockmarr, whose collage works cross over into ‘altered book’ territory. If you have a few free minutes this weekend, you could have a look at Stockmarr’s website or watch a longer version of the … Continue reading
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Seasonal Activities and Some Recipes
The garden is being very productive this summer —we have had a decent amount of rain— so this week’s post is a celebration of food and flowers. Here’s the current kitchen bouquet. (Once they start blooming we have sunflowers in … Continue reading
Friday Night Flicks: Su Blackwell
I have long been a fan of Su Blackwell’s delightful paper sculptures made from books. Blackwell is currently coming to the end of the fund-raising period for a Kickstarter project: a book that will not only be a photographic display … Continue reading
A Little Bit About A Lot Of Things
I am currently working on two projects which I can’t show you as they are planned entries in a juried competition. In the unlikely event that one or other of the jurors should stumble across this blog, it would rather … Continue reading
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Close, But Not Quite
I got quite a bit of work done on Recomp this week. I also spent quite a bit of time waiting for glue (well, cooked wheat starch paste/PVA mix) to dry. I finished covering the panels in Thai mulberry paper, … Continue reading
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A Day in Davidson
I spent yesterday with a group of bookish people in Davidson, Saskatchewan. The event was organised by the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, affectionately referred to by its members as CBBAG (pronounced ‘cabbage’). The morning started with … Continue reading
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You Can’t See The Forest … Part Two
I ended last Sunday’s post with this image, and a promise to tell you more.
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You Can’t See The Forest … Part One
Since I have been enjoying the autumn leaves, it seems an appropriate time to write about You Can’t See The Forest… an altered book/installation piece that was, at least in part, inspired by leaves. I thought I would write about the … Continue reading
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Recomp 2
I had not planned to write another post about the bald-faced hornets and our joint project quite so soon, but life has a way of intervening in the plans of humans. And the plans of hornets, in this case. While I was … Continue reading
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