Jobs

Not a lot of creativity happening over the weekend; but I managed to squeeze in the tentative beginnings of the first step towards something...

Instead the time has been spent doing the jobs that are so often part of the making process - it's never just about the art!

My favourite by-product of doing Barry's swing tags - the play of the threads after finishing a stash. This time around I used some of Habu's paper thread...

We collected the perspex cases for our books . Here is Turning Point in its case, just before wrapping, packing and posting.  It took us about 3 hours all up to sort out the wrapping, the paperwork, the display photos, the emails, the scanned pdfs of the hard copies attached to the books, the postage labels and so on.

But they are now winging their way to the LIBRIS Awards in Mackay and fingers are crossed.

Another job - cleaning all the wood type to remove mould.  There wasn't a heap; but we have had such a wet summer you just know if there is a spot for it grow it will.  I took out all the trays of all the wood type and wiped them over with clove oil and eucalyptus oil.

I think this was the worst!

And then there was some cataloguing of equipment and type for a printmaking group who have just managed to get hold of a fabulous Albion Press, and need all the bits and pieces that go along with letterpress. So we sorted out some stuff we could send to them, and also send them photos of things we think they might need. Another few hours right there.

Hopefully I will get back to some of the creative side of the making life soon!