Letterpress NOTEBOOKS!

I'm assembling the notebooks

inbetween my efforts to ready for the Fall Art Tour

which starts TOMORROW!.

The 3-4 weeks of nasty poison ivy set me WAY back.

BUT! I'm busy getting done what I wanted to get done,

and will be STILL getting things done, and demonstrating HOW 

all this weekend during the Fall Art Tour...

the notebooks, the linoleum block carving, the rocket rings,

the whiteline woodblock printmaking...

and then I discovered how to make those frames out of aluminum flashing,

and a little while ago I figured a great way to make card hangers of simple wire....

it doesn't stop

I can't help it

I art.

Thank-you! Flying Rabbit Press for helping me with the printing,

teaching me about presentation, and assembly, and simply taking care of me

because I tend to jump into projects without considering all the supporting factors.

Thank-you1 Mark of Spring Printing in Spring Green, Wisconsin 

for the stapler instructions

Thank-you! Mary D'Alton & Eric Ferguson of Convivio

for the encouragement to LetterPress.

Learning Letterpress

SO, I've been cutting on linoleum blocks lately.
After Cherry wood, it feels like I'm cutting into old chewing gum.
I made a couple prints last night just to see if what I've been cutting will actually print.
The FRAMED Trout is now at CrossRoads CoffeeHouse
and the notebooks and cards will be done by Fall Art Tour time. 
The Bicycle one is a tester, just to see if I could.
A larger block of MORE bicycles which I tried to get done for the DairylandDare
has three other blocks cut for color.
I made a few prints with my woodblock ink.
I like printing wood better, but it will be interesting to see how these print on a letterpress.
Stay tuned.
More later.