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Snow and ice kept me home for three days, so I made five more of these journals. Doing multiples like this helps me improve. I've figured out little things that make the work easier and the product better.  Leather and paper linings cut. The top three papaers are my own paste paper/print.  Six sheets of Nideggan paper torn down to size for the text. And the final product: 
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I wish I were better at documenting my book arts journey. In fact, the more important and meaningful experiences are the hardest for me to write about. I struggle, often unsuccessfully, with a sort of fatal procrastination. The new year has brought a spate of "looking back" pieces, giving me a plausible excuse to offer some posts that I should have blogged about at the time, but failed. In October, I took a two-day class with Karen Hanmer, offered by the Potomac Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers (of which I am a member), on the springback binding. The class was located in the conservation lab of the Folger Shakespeare Library and it was a privilege and a pleasure to work in that space. The learning was intense! I had never pared leather before, and didn't know until I signed up that that was one of the requisite skills. It certainly was a challenge to get those edges pared while stretching my other skills to learn this complex structure. Still, I had great fun, mostly because Karen is such a good teacher and the group was pleasant and supportive. The book I made is far from perfect, but I’m pleased with my first effort. The Thursday before the weekend class, Karen gave a wonderful presentation about her work at the Library of Congress. Below: Karen demonstrates a few of the steps.
And here is my finished book  A recent email from my mother-in-law included the phrase "bad mushroom," which made no sense and was clearly autocorrect at work -- the inspiration for #4 in the Autocorrect series of small blank books. That was today's project, the first of 2017. I ended 2016 with a couple of small journals covered with my own paste paper.  
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After retiring from 36 years as a public school educator, I am practicing book arts. Archives
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