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2010, A Year of My Life

December 29, 2010

I am a quiet girl, prone to moving through life at a turtle’s pace and to doing things at small, detailed levels. I am not one for making big splashes, yet I know I can have profound effects. Nevertheless, when I look back at my life, sometimes I feel like I haven’t done much; the [...]

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The Blue Room

September 1, 2010

I don’t know that we’ll really call this space “The Blue Room” but it does have one blue wall. The space is a little “shop” that my brother built on his property many years ago. It’s small, about 250 sq. ft. altogether, and cleverly built from old truck boxes (but you wouldn’t know that just [...]

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It followed me home; may I keep it?

March 30, 2010

Day one, of my C&P Pilot tabletop printing press being HOME! It’s been languishing in the ex’s garage … waiting until I had a place to put it, and someone with the muscle and rig required to manhandle the 160 pounds of awkwardness. My brother is in town today, so he helped me get my [...]

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Wishes. Wheels.

March 26, 2010

Several weeks ago I started looking more seriously for space that could become my studio. The hunt had some real Goldilocks kinds of features. For one, I didn’t truly decide I wanted a studio. Instead, I realized that since I needed a place to “store” my printing press, perhaps I ought to go ahead and [...]

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