Dear Everyone ~
Last week I was deep in assembling 30-plus extra-extensive kits for my two upcoming workshops via Zoom: Trio of Enveloping Techniques is happening this very Saturday (October 16), and Desk Beautification: Pencil caddy & Memo holder follows next Saturday (October 23).
This is the first time I’ve assembled two workshops’ kits simultaneously! It’s also the first time the kits have included so many moving parts: several sets of patterned papers, three sets of pre-cut bookboard, and a sixsome of tiny accessories.
The first parcels to leave my premises were actually leaving the country: four to Canada, one to Austria, and one to Australia. Gabriele in Innsbruck is one of my most ardent students—she has taken two Bookful workshops and will be taking both of the upcoming workshops, for which her parcel, containing both kits, weighed 3 lbs 11 oz, including their shipping box (a paragon of paper packaging, I must say). It thrills me endlessly that students from many time zones can participate in these workshops simultaneously.
As it happens, Kim in Southern California emailed this morning, having signed up last Sunday for both Trio and Desk Beautification. She won’t receive her kit in time for this Saturday, so I suggested that she still join in for the fun of it, and I offered to send her the measurements for the papers she needs. She enthusiastically accepted, adding that she is hopping on a flight on Friday. She plans to cut all her papers before takeoff, and will have her supplies with her, and will absolutely join us live on Saturday!
Meanwhile, back in the studio, beautiful scraps of paper were fluttering to the floor by my center table practically every minute. All horizontal surfaces were covered with rolls of paper, scraps of paper, bookbinding fabrics, and stacks of bookboard in a range of pre-cut sizes. My handy guillotine was at the ready to trim the sheaflets of paper that students will place in the memo holders they make in the Desk Beautification workshop.
The mini-accessories mid-assembly offered disproportionate packaging delight: from colourful buttons, to waxed-linen thread wrapped around a tiny piece of bookboard, to the teeniest butterfly-clips with teeny pre-cut papers to cover them. Cutting several patterns in a stack yields umpteeny little pieces, that only reveal their patterns once I start putting them in their glassines. For me, it’s a scrumptious visual moment: like single pieces in a jigsaw puzzle or a scrap-o-matic.
If you’d like to register for Desk Beautification: Pencil caddy & Memo holder you still can. If you’re in the continental U.S. and register by this Friday, October 15, there’s time for you to receive your parcel via priority mail before for next Saturday. And as always, if you have any questions about the workshop, please feel free to call or e me. I look forward to hearing from you and glueing with you soon!
Desk Beautification: Pencil caddy & Memo holder
Post Haste, Bari