Paper Ponderings
FIONA DEMPSTER - MAKER WITH WORDS
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Thursday Thoughts...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Bind25 Auckland and back!
What a weekend it was ! I flew to Auckland early on Friday morning (3.30am pick up) and arrived there mid-afternoon in time to attend the opening event in the evening. A full day on Saturday, dinner Saturday night and another full day and presenting on Sunday followed by another early start 3.45am at the airport, and I was back in Maleny for a mid-Monday-morning cup of coffee with Barry! Phew.
It can only be described as a weekend of wonder - and my brain was fizzing with ideas and thoughts and interest afterwards. It may take some time to process it all, but there will things that grow because of it.
Huge thanks and gratitude to ABCNZ Inc for hosting such a great event.
Some images from my time away.
Flying on a sunny day is so lovely.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Thursday Thoughts...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Jewellery making
In between things I have been wandering over to the workshop to test a few ideas about pebble jewellery, and prepare some commissions.
These large pendants are working out well.
I am also thinking about packaging. I am almost out of my earring boxes and have to come up with a solution so I am trying a few things out.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Small steps making books
The small steps needing to be taken along the way of this small edition are happening. Slowly. I am making a book about silences, and it is hard to come up with thinking and thoughts and design ideas that support silence and make the book feel silent in a way. It's an interesting struggle.
I was testing out a couple of white pens here, to see how they performed on the chosen cover paper.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Thursday Thoughts...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Paper selections and decisions
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Papers and ironing and orchids
The good (great!) news through the week was that I submitted my presentation for the Bind25 Conference in New Zealand. That felt like such a relief and such milestone.
The fact that it was there, always there, waiting for me to tweak it, add to it, delete elements of it, was the strangest of feelings for the past few weeks. But now it is done. Yay.
So I decided to turn my mind to a wee book I am thinking of making in an edition. To start with I had to work out what papers did I think would be best; and then discover if I had enough of the paper to do what I wanted...
These are my lightest book papers - from my paper sampler book - and I was looking for the whitest, and the smoothest, and luckily for me they were the same paper. Magnani Map paper, 140gsm.