From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Photos from Puerto Vallarta

24 February 2009

two quick galleries without any editing work -
Mine:
http://blackdogandmagpie.net/galleries/index.php?album=laras-rough-cut
Jim’s:
http://blackdogandmagpie.net/galleries/index.php?album=puerto-vallarta-1

Tagged as: photo, puerto vallarta

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One Day Book – (K) Kicks

18 February 2009

…coming soon… it’ sitting in the press getting flat.
Meanwhile here are the graphics for the covers of  “(K) Kicks”
The book pretty much sucks – it’s a one day after all. But I like the graphics.

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Shiny…

16 February 2009

I took a PMC (precious metal clay) workshop with Meredith Arnold last weekend.
It took about 8 hours to make these four pieces in a class room. They are construction samples so finish quality is low.
PMC is nice to work with. The tools can be very simple and it really does work like modeling clay. [...]

Tagged as: design, PMC

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Signs of Spring. 3/$10

16 February 2009

From QFC this morning:

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Stenciling a Three Panel Screen, Part II

11 February 2009

More on the screen for Jim’s office.
Once the stencil had had chance to dry I took the fabric panels off the screen (yeay velcro.) I didn’t do any prep work on the fabric  -  poly(?) canvas. The paint will stick well enough and I don’t expect to try to wash the panels. By the time [...]

Tagged as: crows, screen

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Purple Book

10 February 2009

I seem to be on a roll here with the purple stuff.
This is a quick book binding project. The text block was purchased from Paper Source. It comes with cover boards but without a spine board. Japanese paper and book cloth.
I like this long format for guest books or albums.

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Stenciling a Three Panel Screen

10 February 2009

In order to hide the backs of a number of monitors and computers in Jim’s office we put up a cheap three panel screen.
It’s very boring thing. But… the panels are white “canvas” and that means they don’t have to stay boring. So I finally found a stencil that I wanted to use in a [...]

Tagged as: screen, stencil

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Purple is a Good Thing

9 February 2009

Took an upholstery class at Pacific Fabrics over the weekend. I want to make new cushions for the porch furniture.
The result of about 5 hours of work is this lovely and quite useless cushion. I like the drip effect of the stripes and dots.
It’s not as hard as I thought but not easy either. Mostly [...]

Tagged as: color, sewing

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New Pictures

2 February 2009

Two galleries of pictures from last week’s day-trip to the Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands for the purpose of picking up the pig. (Yummy fresh pork!)
First a general gallery – mostly shots that Jim took.
And a collection, mostly mine – a few of Jim’s, taken at the ferry dock at Lopez Island on [...]

Tagged as: ferry, friday harbor, jim, lopez island, san juan island

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