Sabbatical 2011

As a prelude to my sabbatical, I worked on four different books:

In May I worked on a 60th Birthday Book for my sis Tina - mostly serendipitous creation resulting from whatever was sent to me by friends and relatives...


...I collaborated with friend Noe on two "Remains of the Day" 40th Birthday books for Peg & Ned...





...and made a Bat Mitzvah guest book for the daughter of dear friends Leslie & Russ in Wisconsin...




During July, I collaborated with DIL Rajina on a 60th Birthday tribute for her mother Veena:





My own meditation were a suite of four "Square Bead Binding" books:






After an inspiring day at the Long Beach Quilt Show with Mik, I stitched up three strip work agenda covers. This one was for my Mom after she had her heart attach:

Birthday Book for CHW - SHHH It's a Surprise!

Collecting goodies for CHW's book in a project box

Book board cut to size: 9" x 11.5"
Paper from Pat - perfect for the cover!






Covers weighed down and drying ...

Inside covers

Book cloth, inside cover and outside cover


Pages and photos...

So much fun opening packages from Katie...

Janice...

Lila...

Luci...

Elisa...

Needle Felting Journal

Under the excellent tutelage of Jeannine Stein, I entered the world of yet another medium!

An Artful Journey 2011

Two multi-media soul-mates and I ventured to "An Artful Journey" (www.anartfuljourney.com) in Los Gatos, CA for a near perfect three days of creative bliss, studying with book and paper artist Albie Smith (Albie-Smith.blogspot.com). Flesh-colored leather sofas in our cottage at www.presentationcenter.org, rain, snow, sunshine, ortega chile scrambled eggs: from the ridiculous to the sublime!



Paste Paper






French stitch binding






Painted bookboard with gesso