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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II">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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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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