Verksted Artist Co-op

I juried and was accepted as an artist at our local artist cooperative. I'm very excited to rejoin this group of wonderful artists. I believe they represent the best of Kitsap County and even Western Washington for that matter.

My inventory is pretty small for the moment, but as I keep working on it, it will grow.

Paper at last!

Finally. Jack and I settled down the other day and made some paper. It is an interesting task. When the pulp goes in, I'm never certain what will come out. This time I'm able to use a little more than half of the paper we made. The rest will eventually go back into the "vat" and be resuscitated. My favorites are the ones with "botanicals". I also did some with gold leaf in them. You can't see it in the pictures, but they are really pretty. Hope to do another batch in the coming week.

Whew! Christmas is a wonderful thing, but it feels sooooo good to be past it and on with working in my studio making books. Here are a couple of pictures of the ones that are finished. My goal is to finish all the ones I have started before beginning any more new ones. There are many unfinished, so by the 31st of December I should have plenty for display at the Verksted.

These are the Recipe books I made for my nieces and my brother for Christmas. I made the covers from scratch and used purchased text blocks. I think the text blocks are really nice. Tonight I will hand write some family recipes in each one.

More Winter Wonderland

Another beautiful winter day in Poulsbo!!

Wine Cork Curtain

Today we finished Josh and Kara's Christmas present. I have to admit that Jack did all of the stringing. We did have lots of help collecting the corks. It was a real fun project.

Sunday

WOW! A beautiful snowy Northwest day. Can't remember this much snow for many years.