Last week was one of those weeks where I was busy all the time but accomplishments seemed to be few. Dental appointment, watch it rain, doctor check up, mow the high hay, watch it rain, finish up the “real” books from last week’s blog, watch it rain, pick and freeze strawberries, switch closet from winter to summer, finally finish cleaning up the marbling stuff, spend an afternoon as a sub playing cards, and did I mention – watch it rain.
The good parts are that the garden has started to produce. I just hope the cukes aren’t quite as prolific as last year because I still have a dozen or more pints of bread and butter pickles from my canning frenzy of last year.
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- First cucumber
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- Tomatoes
The wild blackberries that grow all over my property are coming on. I love being able to gather a handful every morning on my walk about. The best are from a bush that came up next to the garage. I don’t take care of it except to try to keep people who are helping me from tearing it out!
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- Blackberries
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- Blackberries by the garage
Here are the books I finished from the previous week. Cased in and ready to go. I’m particularly happy with the one with the leather spine. After struggling with paring the leather, it went together very nicely.
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- “Real” Group
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- Frontispiece
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- Front cover
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- Back cover
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- Title page
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- Endpapers
After saying last week that I was tired of novelties, I returned to my cross laced long-stitch books and finished up most of the leftovers. Because of the way the tabs are cut to interlock for the front and back, if you don’t use the same paper for both covers, you end up with either a lot of waste or an extra piece already cut. Of course, I don’t like to waste good paper, so I had a bunch of leftovers, which became more long-stitch books last week.
Not sure what I’m aiming for this week – work in the garden for sure, no marbling but maybe some playing with the dos à dos format. It’s close to a real book and I’d like to try it with a case-type binding. We’ll see if it works!
I also have set up a Losing Her Marbles store on Facebook. It doesn’t have many bells and whistles yet, but social media is slowly creeping up on me.