LAW 85: Yea! I'm done with the leaves and other things

Today i finally finished couching the last of the Oak leaves on my Green Man piece. it feels as if it has taken forever to get to this point, in reality i started this piece the week before Thanksgiving. Which i guess isn't all that slow considering it is a rather large, rather complex piece, oh and ya, i have been working on about seven other things pretty much at the same time. So now all i have to do is couch around the edges and finish off the back. Sigh….

The last little leaf!

Over the weekend i started working on the actual book block of a new commission. I am transforming a friend's Marine dress uniform into two journals. It has been an interesting experience so far between the deconstruction of the jacket, to the give and take over the design elements. Will keep posting as i progress.

folding the book block signatures

Picked the first daffodils on our wok yesterday. Last spring,  on our way to one of our local grocery stores, i found clumps of these tiny little gems growing wild along the forest verge. Happy to see that they are still there, although it is likely they will not be next spring as the area is slated for a huge housing development. There goes the last wild piece of shore on Hopkins Creek. Sigh, progress is not all it is cracked up to be.

first wild daffodils of the spring!

Lastly, Mungo has finally gotten approval for the cover art etc on his newest novel, 'An Alien's Guide to Sears and Roebuck'. The electronic version should  be available now on Kindle. For those of you who still like to read your books hard copy, it will be soon, real soon. Still a few more hoops to jump through there.

Tomorrow we will tie into episode two of the Extreme Makeover of our lovely little shanty boat the Floating Empire. Check out Mungo's blog for updates there, the Floating Empire.

More later,
Morgainne