Embroidered prairie plants
Blue-eyed grass Queen Annes Lace Coneflower Embroidered prairie plants on Japanese Kozo.
View Articlelove.
love. Nebraskan inspired love letters, printed on a 100-year-old letter press at Art Farm. The green that goes on and on and on, the copycat sky.
View ArticleA miracle somehow
embroidered cover detail A miracle somehow Hand-embroidered cover, printed on a 100-year-old letter press at Art Farm in Nebraska, USA. Even with all of her swimming badges sewn onto old bathing...
View ArticleMountain girl
In my make-a-book-a-month-for-2010 goal, I realized in the last few days of August that I didn’t have any cover board. So, I decided to go with a soft cover creation, inspired by Susan Kendal’s newest...
View Articleletting sunday in
letting sunday in found paper, metallic thread, Nepalese paper cover a falling sky collects on the edge of the sidewalk grey.
View Articlefall joy
This fall was a doozy. A blind-siding, topsy turvy season. But on November 1st, a dear friend on the west coast sent me a note, suggesting we send each other a ‘hurrah, it’s fall’ daily moment. And...
View Article2010: A year of handmade book
On January 1, 2010, I set out to write a poem a day and make a book a month. The daily poetry component petered out in mid-June, with continued fits and starts for the rest of the year, but the...
View Article38 things I love (and Truman Capote’s colour coded drafts)
Sometimes, when one of your leading ladies turns 38, you need to write a list of awesome and turn it into a book (including such salient points as “that you love caramelized bananas”). And something...
View ArticleA book for a three-year-old
One of my very favourite gifts when I was a kid was the board book my mom made me of all of the things my three-year-old self could do – swing, colour, kick soccer balls…so when my favourite...
View ArticleYou Were In Michigan: In books
This year is officially my year of collaboration and the newest creation in this year of making is a limited edition run of limited edition (15!) books for Christa Couture‘s newest single “You Were In...
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