Making contd.

 

A Christmas present underway

Little card pouches (an order for’ Turquoise’ in Petone)

And more photo albums (also for Turqoise)

Small

Medium

and Large

More to come

R x

Making . . .

Books:

Two photo albums

Cloth covered, buttonhole binding

Indian Paper, black album pages.

Journals:

Recycled map covers.

Printed cover.

These have all been sold!

My books are available at ‘Turquoise’ in Jackson St, Petone.

Rx

First exhibition

In October I took part in my first public exhibition with the Hutt Art Society:

I had four framed prints and two books exhibited- my prints are on the right and one of my books on the pedestal below:

Close up shots :

An accordion flag book – ‘Sprint for the line’ . Some body bought this  yay!

An accordion book – ‘Textures’  . Wood cut prints, chine colle .

And some framed prints

More to come

R x.

A Catch Up

Hi , It’s been a while since I last posted – hopefully I’ll get my act together and put a few more photos up this month!

My books are now available at ‘Poppies’ bookshop in Havelock North as well as ‘Poppies’ in Petone.

These are some of the books I made back in July – coptic bound and some with recycled map covers:

Daughter no 4 had her 10th Birthday!

Some more snow pictures (just because ):

Spring has arrived – Kowhai blossom and the Tui have been feasting:

And I have been out to the Hutt Art Society print studio. We have an upcoming exhibition – more to follow.

Bye for now.

R x

Snow in Wellington!

Today in Khandallah for the first time since we have lived here (17 years +) it snowed! Great excitement :

In the garden

In the park out behind the house

In the garden

Outside our front door

The street where we live

Winter wonderland

Happy Snow Day ! R x

Raw Materials

My paper arrived from Paper Mojo this week. Yay- can’t wait to use it in some new books:

Just a small selection from my new stash !

Some wool to make a couple of throws. This is Ashford ‘Tekapo’ from the south island and some Misti alpaca/merino skeins (from Peru) which are so soft and make a lovely warm soft fabric when used in the weft:

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Last weekend Daughter 1 attended her Year 13 ball. She is the one in the black dress:


It was all about the Shoes!

And I loved these which one of her friends were wearing:



By all accounts she had a great time!

Rx

Forgot to mention. You can now buy my books from 'Poppies Bookshop' on Jackson St in Petone. Yay .

Rx

Rag rug, bookbinding

 

My first rag rug in progress – made with a cotton warp and the weft is one half of a queen size duvet cover bought at the local school gala for $4!  It takes longer to make the weaving strips than it does to weave the rug!

And some books just finished – coptic bound with quality heavy weight drawing and painting paper pages :

And four more covers which I have since made in to books but haven’t taken any pictures yet of the finished product

I also have some recycled books under way and will show some pictures soon.

I am enjoying the two branches at the moment – using lovely papers and heavy weight pages to make artists sketch books or small photo albums , guest books etc and recycling old  books with a variety of pages to make notebooks , travel diaries or journals.

My weaving also has the two aspects – I have been exploring rag rug weaving using recycled fabrics and on my small loom at the moment I have some new wool weaving with which I am exploring making spaces in the warp and weft.

More pictures to come!

Rx