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• First block prints

  Ta-da! Here are my first block prints created with the flower design I started to carve out last week in class. Palmarin and I decided to test it out first using just black ink on newsprint and I just loved it! Peeling the paper slowly off the block is similar to watching the latent image [...]

  Posted on Feb 23.07 to classes, printmaking   

• A friend found and a new bag

  Using LinkedIn, I found a friend I had lost touch with over the years. Thankfully Cydney and I started to catch up and a recent email from her let me and a few other friends know that she has started making bags based on a bag she found in Spain. She says the bag has [...]

  Posted on Feb 20.07 to crafts, friends   

• Letterpress class at Windowpane Press

  First I have to apologize for not having more than the following images of my weekend workshop at Windowpane Press with Bonnie Thompson Norman in Seattle. I remembered to take my happy snap camera and forgot to bring the battery charger(!). I still can’t believe I had such a brain fart. I was so annoyed [...]

  Posted on Feb 19.07 to classes, letterpress, photography, seattle   

• Printmaking class at Multnomah Arts Center

  I’m struggling to write as I try and shovel as much popcorn into my mouth because I’m so hungry after talking about food during my first printmaking class! (A few words, more popcorn.) And, how lucky am I to come in through the door and have popcorn waiting for me on the kitchen counter! I’ve [...]

  Posted on Feb 15.07 to classes, letterpress, portland, printing press, printmaking   

• Slowness on Sunday

  After a great Saturday night welcome-back-to-Portland dinner with our friends (My husband made the Spinach Salad with Blackened Salmon, Orange, and Red Onion recipe from Diane Morgan’s cookbook, Salmon.) we got together for a bike ride around Sauvie Island Sunday morning.
  It was an opportunity for our friends to try out new bikes and an opportunity [...]

  Posted on Feb 12.07 to food, friends, oregon, portland, slowness   

• Letterpress goodies

  I have to leave for the airport to pick up some friends and wanted to post photos I made of some goodies included with the table top press package. (Thank you Danny Humphries!) There are more images in my flickr album and I converted these to black and white. I think they look much better [...]

  Posted on Feb 10.07 to letterpress, photography   

• Unpacked and ready to assemble

  Finally. My table top press (I love the sound of that!) has been unpacked and brought into the house. My husband and our great friend Steven (he has strong arms from surfing!) busted open the rest of the crate; unbolted the press; lifted it up and brought 250lbs of press into the house. Whew!
  Here [...]

  Posted on Feb 09.07 to letterpress, printing press   

• Hawaiian Monk Seal

  My best friend Susan just returned from a vacation in Maui and sent me an email this morning with some beautiful pictures she made yesterday just before departing for home.

  Here is the Hawaiian monk seal. She’s a beautiful creature and she’s resting on Ka’anapali Beach. According to Susan, this is the first monk seal to [...]

  Posted on Feb 08.07 to animals, friends   

• Festival of the Photograph

  We’re just back from a gathering of friends and photographers at Higgins. It was dubbed a “Going Away” party for our friend, Michael and really, it’s just another way to say, “Let’s get together and have drinks.” Luckily for me, food is usually included (grin).
  Anyhoo — As I’ve mentioned before we spend a lot of [...]

  Posted on Feb 05.07 to friends, photography