2 months ago I would not have thought I'd be saying this. I am back in my element and I'm loving every boring, impoverish, non-social moment of it. Thank you njjn! Now, if only my unemployment claim hadn't been denied!
Tomorrow I'll be going to Ikea Paramus or Elizabeth - whichever has the stuff I need - to set up my studio so that I may bind, press, sew, knit, design easily and efficiently. want to see my inspiration? click here.
Yea. Tired. I woke up at 5 this morning, because I couldn't keep my eyes open past 9 last night. I had a dentist appointment yesterday that sucked all the energy and enthusiasm out of me. I won't go into it, boring gross details no one wants to hear about.
Before my appointment I met Jon for lunch but I had an hour to kill. Thank you Jon, for choosing an eatery next door to a yarn shop! I bought some yarn for some gifts, and some Crystal Palace circular needles for Flicca.
And in other news, thanks to some brilliant artists on etsy, my love of bookbinding has been rekindled. I did a couple practice books using scraps, so I don't waste materials on poorly made books. I've got a great Japanese bookbinding guide that I have read over and over. I haven't tried any of the techniques yet. What I have done is some coptic binding, which is my favorite anyways. Don't mind the bottom book. Devan claimed it so I wasn't really careful and the binding is super loose (plus I didn't use waxed linen so it's kind of crappy.) Click the pic for a larger version.
I decided to set up an etsy shop, but I haven't got any items up for sale yet. Subscribe to the feed!
-(12-08) LIKING:
burritos, knitting for babies, dr. pepper, little potatoes, mitered squares, my bed, the ocean, travel, sleeping in my bed, Jonathan Safran Foer, tenament museums, linen, Air (the french band), Hugh Laurie, Intervention, babies, Iron & Wine, Clive Owen, letterpress, Yeats,
gray, mini-pigs, hotel chevalier, tea, pigs, Quebec, being anywhere but here (nj), modern simple quilts, autumn leaves, white on white, paper, lily snoring
