LETTERPRESS DRAWERS PDF

I think we’ve all been aware of the serious lack of funding for music and art in our schools, but did you know it extends to the shops, as well? I certainly did not. An immensely talented woman, you may be familiar with her giant piece that adorned a back wall of MEC for many years. I once took an 8 week collage course she taught at the Art Institute of Vancouver. I did not realise Margaretha passed away in 2011. Not, of course, that there is anything wrong with building an artist site, it’s just that it is now In Memoriam. Much to my dismay, I saw she had created a website for Margaretha Bootsma. When the aforementioned Suzanna emailed me and offered to spend an hour or so helping me out with WordPress I decided to visit her site. Who would ever have thought of buying up retro trailers, putting them in a huge warehouse and calling it a hostel? I love, love LOVE it! The only downside is that baseCamp Hostel is located in Bonn, Germany. I am constantly humbled by the creativity and imagination I see all around me.

LETTERPRESS DRAWERS PDF

Runs from March 15 to 30.ĭo you know about ‘ made in’ magazine? Am I the last to find out or did I make a great discovery? You can buy a printed copy but, for free, you can download the pdf file. The Spring Group Show at Kimoto Gallery features new works by 25 of the gallery’s artists. How about something a little closer to home. She’s also the generous soul who scanned thousands (literally) of images for me to use in my collage sheets. I saw her one year at the One Of A Kind show and was blown away. It was seeing Emily’s work that convinced me to let go of my attitude to digital art. I really had to, though, because the incredibly talented Emily Cooper is one of the artists. Here I go, again pointing out an exhibition in Toronto: Dreamers at Arta Gallery. – 30 Creative Ways to Repurpose and Reuse Old Stuff Mucho fun and well worth a drive across the border. It’s taking place on April 4, 5 and 6th in Bellingham.

– The second annual Recycled Art and Resource Expo is coming up soon. We might as well keep on going with the recycle theme: They take hard plastics, acrylic, batteries, electronics, styrofoam (yes!), bicycle tubes, etc. They’re based in Victoria, but come to 4 locations in the Lower Mainland on the 3 rd Saturday of every month (that’s this weekend). All that stuff City Hall won’t accept in their recycling program? These guys will.

I am SUPER happy to have discovered pmd Recycling Solutions. Shary is a wonderful and generous instructor. Fortunately for us, Shary is still teaching everything from Mixed Media to Photo Altering to Encaustic and more. Yippeeiay! Since the demise of yours truly’s shop there aren’t many options for workshops, unless you like taking them online. It’s not like they’re making them anymore. If you’ve been hankering after one of these vintage babies, now’s your chance. There are a gazillion things you can do with these, but here’s the latest project I came across: If you want more ideas, search ‘Letterpress Drawers’ and ‘Printers’ Drawers’ at Pinterest. If you know you want one for sure, let me know and I’ll reserve it for you. Anyway, if you’d like to buy one ($50.00), drop by. I thought I’d be sitting there in the sunshine, but it looks like I’m going to have to let go of that daydream. 1 6) morning, I’ll be at Continental Coffee on the NW corner of Main and 27 th. So, here’s the scoop: At 10:30 on Sunday (Mar. I’ve already sold 3 just by mentioning to people I have them, but that leaves 9 for my faithful newsletter list. Then, a wonderful customer contacted me and offered 12 up for sale. About a year and a half ago he told me they were now extremely hard to find. In the past I got my supply from a retired printer who seemed to know pretty much everybody in the business. Guess what? I have LETTERPRESS DRAWERS!!!! In all honesty, I really thought I would never be able to say that, again, unless I decided to sell a couple of my own. When did that happen? Just yesterday I was sitting outside a coffee shop soaking up the sunshine.

As I’m writing this, I realise the sound of raindrops has been in the background for quite some time.

Letterpress drawers