Posted in crafty, poetic on May 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
This stack paper cutter pleases me to no end this weekend. I decided to invest in one to trim thicker stacks of paper, especially the unfinished ends of finished work. The Bostitch guillotine paper trimmer (with a plastic base and very little heft) I’ve had for years hasn’t ever been able to trim [...]
Posted in crafty, poetic on Apr 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
Long craft-deprived, I finally took this past weekend to crack the knuckles, pull out my Print Gocco and complete a chapbook project for twenty-one Kundiman fellows who exchanged poems written on postcards for the month of September 2007. Ten poets contributed their small-size poems.
After months of mulling it over, conceiving of it and mostly [...]
Posted in crafty on Mar 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
Besides being a sometime writing instructor for KSW, local food writer Thy Tran has one of the most information-rich websites and blogs on a singular topic (in her case, food) around–Wandering Spoon. Her website includes a What’s This? gallery of odd-shaped objects d’ cuisine beyond the melamine juicer of our moms’ kitchens. It’s [...]