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?