bookmaking...

This week my island-nation stopped for the running of the Melbourne Cup 

-- it seems everyone's thoughts were on bookmaking

I bet my efforts have yielded a better dividend than most punters

(welllll at least I've still got a smile on my face!)

 I have made a very big start on one of my promised BAO editions

This week I've printed, penned, collated and bound 

12 small books and 2 larger artists proofs for 

'Carpe Diem'...

 

The 12 little volumes still need to be cased in...

...but I'm on the home straight now!

I've got a few more things to do after the books are completed

 before this puppy is ready to post out to fellow BAO folk

so you'll all have to be patient before the final reveal

ahhhhhh its nice to be making some books again....

...

 

rainy days

I'm so very excited that I've been forced to remain indoors - maybe for days and days and days as the rain (finally!!!) come bucketing down here at the creek  - I'm posting all my rainy day pics at my sams creek farm blog site - but the relief and excitement is almost overwhelming that its hard to think of anything else - or do anything other than watch in wonder as the wet stuff keeps falling


I started making myself a (hopefully) lovely art journal yesterday..... here's where I'm up to....

I've completed the bookblock - its a fairly substantial A4 landscape format with about 16 sections - longstitch sewn over tapes (the paper is just simple archival cartridge with ingres endpapers...it is meant to be a utility booklet after all!)

but it's just raining too hard for me to get from the house to the studio (about 20m from the house mind you!) to finish it off today

and isn't that simply the most MARVELOUS NEWS!



OMG it is simply BUCKETING down here right now - I wish you could hear the torrents of rain on my corrugated iron roof!