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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30 Minutes with Photoshop

I have a desk­top wid­get that acts as a sideshows pho­to frame on my devel­op­ment machine. Hav­ing some­thing pleas­ant to stare at when my mind goes blank on a prob­lem is nice. This morn­ing, dur­ing a par­tic­u­lar­ly intense “now how the … 

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