I'll mail the package in the morning. Warning: it is the most bizarre package I have ever created. It was a series of ideas that didn't work out. At one point I forgot the rice and the tiny book in a box - so they are stuffed in - in a baggie.
Don't worry about slicing through all the tape on the outside with a box cutter - there is another whole layer of foam core inside. The plan was to avoid using bubble wrap. Normally, I would go to the packaging store - but the street is torn up right in front of the store - and it just seemed easier to smallerize a box I had on hand. Normally, I am skillful at smallerizing - but my T-square was over at my son's house - and then it was 4 pm. Clearly, I have to stick with my rule to stop doing anything that involves measuring by 4 pm. But, I had to just forge ahead an let it be what it is - because - tomorrow, I am doing another thing that I should not be doing - which is addressing 40 invitations to a birthday party for the last person I do any addressing for - and there was an error in punctuation necessitating a reprint - so now it is a rush job.....
I took photos of the items because it's much easier to describe things this way. I've never figured out how to put a bunch of photos in a folder or a file - and even if I did - I would have no way of finding a folder or a file - and to me a file folder - is just one thing - so how can you make it into two things. Do folders go into files - as in filing cabinets or do files go into folders.
At least I'll have a record of what's gone so that I don't go crazy looking for things that are no longer here.
The photos loaded in reverse order - so at this point - it would be best to scroll to the bottom and start there. Yes - I could have loaded the photos one at a time - but it's too late...
An itty bitty book - the last photo has initials - but I can't remember who made it and gave it to me.
It's so cute - I think you should keep all the tiny stuff - it doesn't seem like any of it is worthy of being collected by the library - you could just keep it - use it for the collection - and then give it away - or toss it.
The rice. Let me know if you want to surprise your fellow librarians with their names on rice.
There is one grain that says Happy Birthday.
I knew someone who was on a beach in Asia - and said there was a person selling his rice with words or names on it.
For your scrapbook of oddities. I have more - and will send them along as I find them. Or you may toss it - but it there's any chance that an exhibit of distinctive penmanship would be of interest - maybe it would fit in. I'll have to see how many examples I have -- to see if there are enough to make a statement.
Nobody knows who said this first. It's PrismaColor pencil on skin. I was just testing to see how colored pencils looked on skin - and was very happy with the look - but never did anything else.
I love white space. I suppose this one needs something else - maybe not. An unusual size mat would make it work - maybe 1-inch away from the words on all four sides? Walnut ink on paper - probably Arches text wove. Same paper and ink on the one below.
This is a copycat version of a party trick that Peter Thornton does. He loves to do lettering for an audience. Mostly people ask him to write their name. Sometimes they ask for a word they like. If the name or word has an i he will dot the i with a splat. He puts a drop of ink on the paper and then carefully holds a straw over the top - close but not touching - and then blows a quick burst of air - creating the splat. It takes a while to get good at splatting. His turned out perfect every time.
If it were to be matted - I think I would turn it so that the writing was level - but maybe it's fun this way.
I wrote this piece about 6 times. It was for someone who wanted to send a thank you to her sister - so I tried several variations. She chose a different one. I don't like this - don't give it to the library - give it away.
Two more pieces on vellum - that left one isn't very good - don't give it to the library - you keep it and give it to someone who might want something written on vellum. The right one isn't very good either. You decide how many examples you want. It's hard to imagine my name on display with work that I don't really like. But at this point - it doesn't really matter - use whatever is helpful - and if you don't use any of it - it will not matter to me. It's just nice to send things away.
There are the two Peter Thornton quills on the left. Three scraps for people to touch. The black square has a test of raised gilding.
Two more from the blessing series. The top one is just a rough draft in pencil. I was going to throw it away. You may throw it away. The bottom one (gouache) - I like - it's on parchment/vellum. I'm going to switch to calling it skin - because that's faster to type. I do not recall what kind of skin it is. It came from Jesse of Pergamena.
The piece was done after taking a workshop with Cheryl Jacobson - scribe and book maker in Iowa City - do you know her? She has made entire books - written the whole thing by hand on skin. I forgot the name for the process of scraping off the writing in a book - to write something else - but the scraping leaves a shadow. The workshop was writing - and then scraping and then writing again - and maybe doing it several times. I LOVED the process - palimpsest. Thank you Google. I heard you say that word in our conversation - and then I couldn't remember it.
I pondered taking this out of the frame - but then I'd have an empty frame - it has weird blocks of wood on the back - I don't know why. It has a label for a different piece called *I like trees* - This piece is tiny writing - one of the series of blessings. The blessings people say before meals. They all came from a book I no longer have and I couldn't find it online. This is gold gouache on parchment/vellum. I was surprised how bad my spacing was. I think I just churned out a lot of work for the exhibit - because it was something I did every year for about five years....
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