recycling day

 

made some paper for my book yesterday!   tried drying it on the window, which worked quite well.  lots of good information from”The Papermaker’s Companion” by Helen Hiebert, published by Storey.    many thanks to m. heart for the suggestion!  and if you haven’t already, check out the great storey blog she created.

a book?

why can’t i ever just decide to do something and then do it without it all changing on me?  i thought i’d make a fort worth journal–like a travel journal with bits of this and that, photos, postcards, etc.  (btw, if ft.worth has any attractive postcards i’ve yet to find them.)  i set out one day with point-and-shoot, paper and crayon for rubbings, and a few $, for a city walk.  i did a few rubbings from plaques on main street, photographed the horse on top of the fountain by the courthouse (the silhouette is now on a homemade rubber stamp) and rejected every postcard i found.  i walked by a bed and breakfast called “etta’s place,” picking up a brochure.  and that’s when the digression first began.  etta place was the sundance kid’s woman.  butch and sundance, and the rest of the wild bunch hung out in fort worth a bit.  the famous studio photo of the wild bunch was taken here.  not much is really known about etta.  some say she was a schoolteacher, others that she was a “soiled dove.”  i came home and started playing with her image, which then led me off on another tangent resulting in several small abstract somethings that have nothing really to do with fort worth, etta place, or …anything.  THEN i attended the postponed-from-last-spring papermaking day with the fiber guild.  WELL, that was such fun!  i made one sheet of recycled paper (seen in the photo above, folded in half).  we used a box deckle which is fabulous for making small quantities in small spaces such as our apartment.  (you pour into it rather than dipping.)  SO NOW  i want to make a book of these small somethings and other small somethings i’ve yet to make.  a sewn book, i think, because it’s been years since i made one.  and i want to make my own recycled paper for the pages.   now i’m waiting for the mould and deckle to be delivered from dick blick.  more later….