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• Climbing out of the valley

  It’s been such a busy week of tweaking QuickBook files for my accountant and finishing up a magazine assignment that I don’t think I have stepped out of the house other than to feed the neighbor’s cats. Not good.
  Working from home is rather odd that way… The upside: I am really productive; I get a [...]

  Posted on Jan 25.07 to animals, blogging, freelance, slowness   

• First press

  Here it is. My first press.

  It’s a Vandercook No. 0 proof press. It’s not really made for fine letterpress printing and a great way to get started (so I’ve been told). The artist whom I purchased this proof press from made prints from woodblocks. Hmmm… seed planted.

  I love looking at it. It’s so old, solid… [...]

  Posted on Jan 20.07 to classes, letterpress, printing press, seattle   

• Snow falls Portland

  The snow is old news by now and if you haven’t seen the video of cars crashing into each other here in Portland, Oregon, click here. Having spent most of my childhood and teen years near Lake Ontario, I grew up knowing that no matter how big the car or what kind of tires are [...]

  Posted on Jan 19.07 to oregon, photography, portland   

• The pictures that bind

  We spent the weekend with friends and photography.
  Many of our friends are photographers so most of our weekends are spent with friends and photography and what made this weekend unique is the annual Photo Night at Rob and Fran’s house. Spending time with friends from out of town was also a great bonus! They traveled [...]

  Posted on Jan 09.07 to friends, new year, photography   

• Happy New Year

  Hanbok
  Originally uploaded by cococello.
  sehe bok mahnee badteuseyo … that’s “Happy New Year” in Korean.
  Here it is written out in hangul (the Korean alphabet):

  (Just in case my research in writing this correctly has a mistake, I can understand Korean more than I can read or write — apologies!)
  The photo is a detail of a hanbok, a [...]

  Posted on Jan 02.07 to korea, new year