it's done!

And it's a photo album, not a poetry book. I think I have enough book cloth and beetle paper leftover to make a smaller sized book, so maybe that's coming next.

I'm also excited about using this stamp set I got at a store on State Street in SB called Plum Goods. I know someone who will be getting a cityscape birthday card soon...

I wish there were a Baltimore cityscape stamp set. It would come with a little Washington monument, a little Waterloo apartment building, a little Dionysus...

readings and books

Last weekend, I went to see Mary Oliver read at UCSB. It was lovely. She is so different from how I imagined her - faster speaking, less hippie-ish, and funny. It was really cool to see Campbell Hall completely filled up for a poetry event. After the reading, I waited in line to have Mary Oliver sign my copy of her new book Swans (she didn't look up from her signing when I passed by), and I had a flashback to when I walked across that stage at graduation. Aaw.

Now about my book. The new one, which isn't even a book yet. I bought this neat little kit from Paper Source that is supposed to be for photo albums, but it can very easily be any other kind of book. Well, I think the one I bought is a bit too big for a 15 page book, and the paper is black, which means I can't print onto it. I tried gluing white pages onto the black ones, but it made waves in the page. (Sabrina suggested using spray adhesive.) Now I'm stuck with these beetle-papered boards, and I don't know what to do with them. Keep making a book I don't like or turn it into an actual photo album?

On the radio, someone had lost their goat

It was soo nice to go away for the weekend, drive through the winding woods with my sister, and see some long lost cousins. I told Elisa I want to move to Mendocino and be a hippie. My cousin Carl suggested a career in cheese cultivating, but I was thinking more along the lines of organic soaps and crocheted beanies?

Sabrina made the cutest thing of me and Ronit!

la vie quotidienne: Some of my peeps....