A week ago I brought in the Sunday paper (this was in Pocatello), looked at the front page, and said, “That’s my mom!” She had told us that someone had interviewed her for the newspaper, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. The piece on the front page, was just a pointer to a big article …
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Redefine
Yesterday (Nov 19)’s Boston Globe had a full page ad with a graphic of a wishbone and a star, and the following text: Let’s redefine Christmas. By putting more Thanksgiving in it. No sooner does Thanksgiving end, than the loathsome shopping season begins – a month-long compulsion to buy something, anything, for everyone. We’re pressed. …
Baseball Cards
Ha, that should confuse search engines when people are searching for trading cards with pictures of baseball players. OK, so here are scans of a couple of postcards I’ve sent out recently. Firstly, this is one of four cards I stamped on cardboard cut from beer six-packs. Contrary to the impression the first recipients seemed …
Recommended Reading
My mom said, “Have you ever read Stickeen? It’s a really short book, it’ll only take you an hour, here.” Where has this book been all my life? How come I had never heard of it before? Is it too controversial because of saying that dogs are people too? It’s on the web at that …
Scrap Leather
We got up early, by which I mean at a time that would only be oversleeping by a single hour on a work day, this morning. We wanted to get to Bridgton at 10 for a guided walk in the area that Loon Echo Land Trust is hoping to turn into Pondicherry Park. We did …
Indexing stamps
I think I’ve talked before about indexing stamps. The batch I did last night was so big I couldn’t resist taking a picture. It was only seven designs, but they’re big sellers, so I did quantity 25 of a couple of them Here’s the setup. I use a soy oil-based printer’s ink, something like Hi-Tech …
Jack-o’lantern
OK, so here’s the pumpkin I carved on Monday night, lit up, in action on Halloween: Here it is, next to the magazine cover I modeled it on. It’s the hair line that makes the cover picture recognizable. The lack of it is a big part of why the pumpkin isn’t.
Discharge Printing take 3
Last year we tried printing two T-shirts by the dye discharge method. The idea is to print with bleach so as to remove the color from the fabric where you print. Rather than using liquid bleach, which is stronger and harder to control than you really want, we print using Soft Scrub liquid cleanser instead …
Fall Foliage
For those of you who haven’t seen autumn in New England this year, here are some pictures I took at Poland Spring Preservation Park when foliage was at its peak. I think that was the weekend of October 13 this year. That’s later than usual because the weather was unusually warm for lots of October. …
Not bad for a Monday
Yesterday evening I surprised myself by how much energy I seemed to have. I knit several (well, at least a few) rows on one sleeve of my sweater, carved an eraser stamp, and carved a jack-o-lantern. I started the sweater in the middle of last winter and got the body done, then sort of bogged …