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15 books with a single sheet of paper...

That is the name of the class I took with my sister last week at the San Francisco Center for the Book.  It was a fun class.  It gave great ideas for little books, cards, etc.  I was experimenting with the pop-up designs we learned. Here are just a few pictures:

   

This center has been around for awhile and this was my first class. I plan to take more.  They teach letterpress printing.  I took a class awhile back in college.  It was called "Printing Technology" and it was so much fun.  I did a little letterpress printing but not much.  It would be fun to take a letterpress printing class here.  Hopefully I can squeeze some time.

happy mother's day!

I'm having breakfast with my side of the family with aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. and then having an early dinner with my husband's immediate side of the family in the East Bay.  It will be a busy day.

I was busy sewing for little mother's day gifts...and some lite shopping.  At work we were given a special deal on some skin care from one of our affiliates.  I got these olive oil soaps:

I wasn't sure how to package them until I saw these little plates at Japantown.

I'm including this book with the soap:

...and FYI: I'm quoted on page 55:

I packaged everything together in fabric bags:

It was the first time I did a buttonhole...and sew a button with my sewing machine! I'm so proud of myself - haha!  I had to interrupt my husband from his online poker playing so I could watch how on YouTube. 

I had lots of practice since I made 8!

Have a Happy Mother's Day! I hope you all have a good one.

heath ceramics

I finally went to Heath Ceramics in Sausalito.  I've been wanting to go for awhile so when I received the postcard in the mail about their open studio sale I figured that would be a good time to go.  My sister and I did browsing, picking up and putting back but finally made a decision on what to get.  Here are the pieces I got:

sugar bowl

serving platter

vase

tea/coffee mug

I'm so glad we went.  It's hard to pick because you want everything.  It was crowded because of the open studio sale but it was nice seeing the owners.  There was an article about them in the newspaper the other day.