Got up and showered and ate leftover pancakes (yum) and drank some coffee and got in the car to go to the Charm City Craft Mafia Holiday Heap at 2640, which by the way is the coolest building in Baltimore, hands down. Place was jammed with awesome stuff and so many people. Olivia was a little kirked out by the crowd. Can’t blame her.
I picked up a print from Tugboat Printshop and chatted with Paul Roden (I think) about the paper they use, the inks they prefer and their process. Here’s a pic of the print I got:
picture pulled from http://www.tugboatprintshop.com/
I also picked up a comic book about screenprinting from Red Emmas:
Do It Yourself Screenprinting by John Isaacson
Then, we had an awesome lunch at Paper Moon Diner. You want to make the cheese steak yummier? throw it on white bread and then grill that in butter. Good thinking, Paper Moon!
Came home made some snow-droids with the girls out front. Then decided to try out the woodcut process myself:
I used a bigass piece of wood I've had forever and freehanded the whole thing.
Then I made a test print, but the paper was real thick, so it turned out meh...
Here is a picture of my “studio” in the basement:
I'm super organized.
Oh, and here’s a Japanese stab binding I did last night:
Silver is the new black.
Ten miles on the bike, leftover curried chickpeas and now I’m ready to finish Coraline. What did you do today?
Wow! What a cool day. I really like the woodcarving and printing stuff! (I selfishly think how neat it would be to see you carve a nativity scene in wood and print it as Christmas cards for your friends to buy!!!)
Since you asked: We did our trip to Baltimore to the BSO Polar Express (awesome!) and then had lunch at a place called “Shirley’s” (did I remember that right?—it was a breakfast/lunch uppity diner in downtown Baltimore!) Drove home in the snow, and opened our Christmas puzzle (St. Nick was supposed to bring it today, but it was perfect for the afternoon yesterday!) We worked on that for a little bit (girls got bored—it is a 1000 piece puzzle after all!) and then girls went to bed and we watched a bit of Harry Potter on TV. It was a nice day, but we’re all tuckered out. Looking forward to chilling today and maybe catching some football.
I wanted all day to write down what I was doing:) Thanks for the opportunity!
I sewed up 7 Christmas aprons for a holiday party (for kids) at daycare, I sewed valances for my laundry room (first attempt, very excited), I cooked 3 different types of bread, about 8 loaves total, to freeze and have as Christmas/hostess gifts, I cleaned the kitchen, we hung lights on our tree, we played and sledded in the snow, I did 2 loads of laundry, did I mention the steak dinner with shallot and sage mashed potatoes?
Loves days like that