Photos from Puerto Vallarta

two quick gal­leries with­out any edit­ing work — Mine: http://​black​do​gand​mag​pie​.net/​g​a​l​l​e​r​i​e​s​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​p​h​p​?​a​l​b​u​m​=​l​a​r​a​s​ — ​r​o​u​g​h​ — ​cut Jim’s: http://blackdogandmagpie.net/galleries/index.php?album=puerto-vallarta‑1

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Shiny…

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. … 

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Purple Book

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. … 

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Purple is a Good Thing

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 … 

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New Pictures

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 … 

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