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Seasonal Activities and Some Recipes

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Byopia Press

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 →

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The Language of Flowers

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Byopia Press

As promised a while ago, this week’s post includes the instructions for making a little book called The Language of Flowers. The text is based on a digitized copy of this book:

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Marginalia

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Byopia Press

For several days this past week I worked on my project Marginalia for this month’s Instagram areyoubookenough challenge.

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Experimenting with Cordage

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Byopia Press

I mentioned last week that, inspired by @alicefoxartist, I had collected dandelion stems for making cordage. This week I thought it might be a good idea to practice making cordage before I started using the dandelion stems which are in … Continue reading →

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This, That, and The Other

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Byopia Press

It’s been one of those mixed weeks. I finished seven more Dreams from The 99 Dreams of Euclid’s Wife. (You can see all the completed ones here.) This is last Monday’s.

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The Orihime Binding with a Drumleaf Variation, Part Two

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Byopia Press

Last week’s post was about preparing the pages for the Orihime/Drumleaf Variation. This week’s post shows you how to assemble it.

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The Orihime Binding with a Drumleaf Variation, Part One

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Byopia Press

The anniversary of this blog is coming up —July 7— and I post a special project every year to celebrate both this event and Tanabata. This year I am re-visiting the Orihime binding which was created for Tanabata in 2017. … Continue reading →

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More Dreams and A Project Preview

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Byopia Press

The 99 Dreams of Euclid’s Wife project continues. Here is Dream 13.

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An Origami Airplane and Some Other Things

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Byopia Press

One of the advantages of working on a 99 day project is that one can achieve a feeling of accomplishment early in the day, and still have plenty of time to work on other things. This week the “other things” … Continue reading →

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The 99 Dreams of Euclid’s Wife

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Byopia Press

The first of June marked the beginning of my 99 day project for 2022. I have, in fact, been working on this for some time. The series of ‘drawings’ —archival pigment prints with additional coloured pencil— is called The 99 … Continue reading →

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