I've got six groups for sale, so bear with me. I know the papermaking posts aren't everyone's favorite. Here's the next group of five Yule cards for sale. They are made on 100% post-consumer recycled paper cardstock, and the image is a genuine vintage postcard about 100 years old. They are blank inside, and have matching envelopes.



Next you'll see the five cards up close, plus a transcription of the front of the card, since the scans are not very clear.









Yuletide Greetings
(The basket is filled with holly and mistletoe.)










Ring out ye Merry Bells and bear, a Yuletide Greeting through the Year.
(I love the images in this ... ivy, bells, a horseshoe ... this is definitely to be sent by someone who has lots of good wishes for the recipient!)











Yule-tide Joys / Blessings bright as dew from heaven / Fall upon your way / Life's best gifts to you be given / This glad Christmas Day
(All right, so Christmas snuck in there ... but Yule is front and center!)










Peace and Goodwill / "Peace and goodwill" in your heart to-day / "Peace and goodwill" in your home alway, / And the morning song of the New Year still / Tender and glad, be "Peace and Goodwill" - H. M. Burnside








Peace on earth Good will to men
(That's mistletoe and holly on the card, so the message is that kisses bring peace and good will!)

All the cards are sharply and well printed; it's the photo that's fuzzy, not the cards! The postcards were all recycled, so they show some wear and tear on the edges or some light soiling from their first trip through the mailing system. Still, I think you would be well pleased with them.

Five cards, $5 plus $2 to ship. Paypal preferred. I'll mail them to you right away!

How the days do rush by! I had two more sets of Thanksgiving/harvest cards to display, and never got around to it before Thanksgiving sped by me. If anyone is interested in harvest cards, just let me know and I show you the pictures.

Otherwise, onto the Yule cards. Here's a group of five Yule cards for sale. They are made on 100% post-consumer recycled paper cardstock, and the image is a genuine vintage postcard about 100 years old. They are blank inside, and have matching envelopes.


Next you'll see the five cards up close, plus a transcription of the front of the card, since the scans are not very clear.










Yule-Tide Greeting












A Joyful Yuletide.












No text. (This is the one card that is not 100 years old; my guess is that it is less than 30 years old.)











With the Season's Compliments












Peace and Love / 'Neath thy soft touch of Peace and Love / Oh come glad Day our hearts to move / To truer Friendship-wide Good-will / For those who climb with us life's hill. - H. M. Burnside

All the cards are sharply and well printed; it's the photo that's fuzzy, not the cards! The postcards were all recycled, so they show some wear and tear on the edges or some light soiling from their first trip through the mailing system. Still, I think you would be well pleased with them.

Five cards, $5 plus $2 to ship. Paypal preferred. I'll mail them to you right away!

These are photos from an exhibit I attended in 2005 called "Trashformations." The exhibit was amazing! It turned out that only S and I attended, but that was OK with me, since I always delight in his company, and I could wander around the exhibit for as long as I wanted.

There were so many things that I wanted to share; I'll have to do it over several posts. Here are four items that delighted me.

This one was my absolute favorite; I spent many minutes studying this one. A paper dress! Oh, to a paper fetishist, does it get any better than that? I want a paper dress! Must find a paper dressmaker. Or figure out how to make one on my own. I want those little string enclosures that are used on manila envelopes to close the dress, though - wouldn't that be awesome??


Jennifer Mecca, "Half of What You Read," 2004
Newspaper, nylon screening, string, 60"x36"










This one was the first item I saw in the exhibit; I'm sure it wouldn't be as comfortable as my paper dress (and they definitely weren't my size), but still, it was so perfectly executed that it fascinated me.


Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch, "Trashy Lingerie 1, 2 & 3," 2004
Coke cans, gutter guard, rivets, washers, aluminum rods, dryer vents, washing machine hose clamps, ribbon
Bra: 10"x12"x11"; Panties: 8"x8.5"x7.5"; Garter: 11.5"x10.5"x9.5"




One of these was in the exhibit, and more were for sale in the gift shop. I have no idea how they were made, but they were perfectly seductive. They still had the hole in the center uncovered, so you couldn't store anything small or liquid in one. Not that you'd probably want to do that, because peering at the label was half the fun. The one I admired was a Frank Sinatra album.

Jeff Davis, "Vinylux stepped record bowl," 2003
Vinyl LP record, 4"x12" diameter

This one looked sturdy enough to be used, but since it was a museum, sitting on the exhibit was prohibited.


Susan Koos Hayden, "Wrench Bench," 2004
Recycled metal, 34.5"x42"x16"

I just loved the tea bag dress that I showed in the previous post. I just had to show you a few more artworks of hers.

She calls this one "The Breakup." It's small pieces of photographs, stitched together with painstaking care. It floats on the wall. It's gorgeous.












These are bowls made from sewn maps! Oh, I would love to learn how to make these. She also had bowls made out of other kinds of paper, like magazine pages, photos, and waxed paper.









And this dress is made out of magazine pages and waxed paper! I do wonder what it would be like to wear something like this. Would it be comfortable? Would it be durable? Would it be destroyed in the rain?

Last January I went to the Fuller Museum to see Donna Rhae Marder's art. It was magnificent! She had had a few pieces in the Trashformations exhibit I attended the year before, including a teapot made of tea bags and a wall hanging made with a deck of cards, thread, and space. This time around, her show was all stuff that could hang on a wall.


She showed tiny wearable baby dresses made of tea bags and photographs! Wearable dresses for an adult made from magazine photos and waxed paper! Quilts made with photographs and coffee filters and eggshells! A rug made from paper and cardboard matches from matchbooks! Each display was more captivating than the next.

I was deeply disappointed to find that the museum didn't have a book of her work for sale in the gift shop, nor did they have any informational handout about her. I hope I find another show of her work someday!

Do you know of other paper artists? Please let me know! I'd love to find other people recycling paper into art.

I moved my studio from one basement to another. This is what my new studio space looks like.

It's actually pretty nice. Not as roomy as my old setup, but I like working here. Getting to the water is a little annoying, because the table is long and there isn't a lot of space between the end of the table and the sink. And due to the electrical outlet location, it's really the best place to have the paper shredder located.

What I really need to do is use up a lot of the supplies under the table so that the shredder can be moved under the table. But right now, all those tuff totes are stuffed with paper, rubber stamps, ribbon, papermaking kits, postcards, greeting cards, etc etc etc. I'm such a pack rat when it comes to having supplies on hand! I like to be prepared for all emergencies.

Other than angel wings, what else can you add to your paper to give it some interesting details? If you're willing to buy stuff, Arnold Grummer has some interesting materials.














These are two examples. The stuff in the tubes are metallic flakes, kind of like metallic glitter. Silver, gold, and copper. They also make colored metallics, like emerald green, bright red, bright blue, and multi colors. I admit, I do use these once in a while. But I didn't buy them wholesale. I watch eBay for people who bought them and thought they'd do papermaking, but didn't like it (imagine!) and just want to dump the stuff for practically free. Sometimes the tubes are partially used. That's how I like to buy them - then I know they are recycled!

The stuff in the plastic bags are a different kind of flake - irridescent, but  not metallic. I think they're some kind of plastic. I don't like these nearly as much, because they can tend to peel off the surface of the paper if you don't seal it with mod podge. But if you're making a bowl, you'll be sealing it, so they'll stay in place. But they might leave little bumps in the surface, so if you're trying to make a very smooth bowl, don't use these.

There are plenty of things you can use that are truly recycled, like lint from your dryer! Don't add too much, but when you have bright lint from washing those purple towels or those red flannel sheets, it's fun to see what you can do with it.

I've also enjoyed cutting up woven ribbons into threads and using the threads in my bowls. If you've got some ribbons from a birthday gift, see what you can do to reuse them!

People often ask me what kind of paper I use to make bowls. Really, any kind of photocopy paper that is dyed is ideal. I love astrobright paper!

The dyes are really terrific in quality, and the colors stay vivid. But any kind of junk mail, even mail order catalogs, will do! If you do end up using mail order catalogs, beware that since they are mostly white pages with black print, even if you think they have a whole lot of photos ... the resulting paper will be gray. The dyes in the photocopy paper is what gives handmade paper the color you see in the bowls. They're the best dyes in the business, so it's worth using the paper when you can find it in recycling bins or if friends have made too large a photocopy run and have copies of their church newsletters left over. Any dyes you can buy from a craft store don't work as well, and then you have the problem of disposing of them, or having them in your waste water. Much better to let the paper companies deal with this stuff, and let you recycle the paper and take advantage of other people's trash.

People ask me about angel wings, which I use frequently in my bowls. I bought a one pound bag of purple angel wings, so I use that most often. I also have a batch of pink ones, also a one pound bag, but I like using the purple ones better. The color is more intense and more flexible for my use.

But they also come in smaller batches from Arnold Grummer:

I'd love to find some red ones, or some royal blue ones. I'm not wild about pastels, or the funny teal color in this picture. I also wonder if it would be possible to dye some if I buy the natural color (which looks like a whitish color). Wonder what I could use to dye them, and whether it would come out well, or whether they'd look spotty? Any ideas?

I posted the first five of a set of Thanksgiving/harvest cards that I made last week. Here is the next set. (I made four sets in all, so there are more to come.) I think this set may be my favorite, and you'll see why if you read on.

I have scans of the individual cards and a transcription of the greeting if you can't quite figure it out from the picture.










I usually try to stay away from turkey cards, because they are so common. I like the Thanksgiving postcards that have a vegetarian harvest rather than a carnivorous one. But this card snuck in anyway because I liked the words: "Peace and Prosperity / Thanksgiving Greetings / Once again we are thankful for the privilege of this season's fullness. Therefore, let us all join in this festival and be glad, and happy and grateful for the blessings we have, and for the comforts of life which surround us on every side."


It says "Thanksgiving" in the smoke. Isn't this cool? Black cat, cauldron, mysterious smoke signals ... this card has it all!









"For summer's bloom and autumn's blight, For bending wheat and blasted corn, For health and sickness, Lord of light, And Lord of darkness, hear our praise. - J. G. Holland. / Best wishes for a Bright Thanksgiving"

Now is that not the neatest card? Praising the Lord of darkness! I just love it!!






What's not to love in this card. Check this out: "I salute thee, Miss Onion, the gallant radish said / Let us have one more round ere our spirits are dead / Ere our charms shall the Thanksgiving table enhance / O grant me, fair onion, this last Harvest dance."

A courtship song from a radish to an onion ... now when is the last time you've seen one of these??




"Joyful Thanksgiving / Now brightly shines he harvest moon / On the land of love and peace and plenty / May you enjoy good days and blessings / Not just a few, but heaps - yes many!"

None of these cards is blurry in real life! I'm just blowing up the card images in the photograph, and the photo isn't very clear. They are actually all printed well, but they do show signs of wear, like the black cat card having chips taken out in the cauldron's finish. They are genuine vintage cards, not color copies.

I really like these for greetings this time of year, especially if you have something you "harvest-y" to convey to someone. Tell them what makes you thankful, and tell them what you have accomplished this season. These are on 100% recycled card stock, and they are blank inside, with envelopes.

Five cards, five bucks, plus $2 for shipping. Paypal gets them in the mail to you tomorrow!

I just received an auction catalog in the mail that has some lovely pictures in it. It's also printed on extra heavy paper, so I'm going to cut down the pages into squares and make some origami boxes out of it. My two favorite books for origami box patterns are these. The author is Tomoko Fuse.

My favorite is the triangle shaped box you can see on the cover of the second book, but there are lots of great designs in here. It should be a fun project!

If you've ever browsed my website, you already know that I am enchanted by vintage postcards. I really love holiday postcards, and I've collected a small stack of damaged and discount cards from postcard dealers. My special interests are Easter cards that have a spring theme to them, Thanksgiving cards that have a harvest theme to them, and Yule cards (cards that say "Yule" rather than Christmas in the greeting). I have to dig a little to find them, but it's worth the pursuit to me.

Last night I made some Thanksgiving and some Yule cards. Anyone interested in some of them? Here's one set of Thanksgiving cards.

I have scans of the individual cards and a transcription of the greeting if you can't quite figure it out from the picture.









"May you be thankful for many blessings on this happy holiday"








Thanksgiving greetings









"Just sending friendly wishes to you and yours for a very happy Thanksgiving"












"Thanksgiving / Now let the good old Crop adorn The Hills our Fathers trod; Still let us, for His golden Corn, Send up our Thanks to God."

(Of course, the postcard artist probably thought of Jehovah when writing that verse, but I think of the Lord of the Harvest.)








Thanksgiving greetings












None of these cards is blurry in real life! I'm just blowing up the card images in the photograph, and the photo isn't very clear. They are actually all printed well, but they do show signs of wear, like the Corn God card having a corner missing, and the first card being a little soiled. They are genuine vintage cards, not color copies.

I really like these for greetings this time of year, especially if you have something you "harvest-y" to convey to someone. Tell them what makes you thankful, and tell them what you have accomplished this season. These are on 100% recycled card stock, and they are blank inside, with envelopes.

Five cards, five bucks, plus $2 for shipping. Paypal gets them in the mail to you tomorrow!

I wish there were more details visible in this photo. I'm really pleased at the textures in this bowl, but I don't think this photo does it justice.


This is for Nancy, who offered me a most stupendous trade ... a digital camera for a bowl! I sent her two bowls, and this was one of them.

She said she liked blue and green. I pouted for a few days because I didn't have any good blues in my backlog of trash paper, and pondered how I might make her a bowl that she would like. Then Debby came to the rescue by gifting me with a bag of her trash paper, including a great stash of blue paper! I used all the blue paper she had in the bag, and some bright green that I had lying around. As a result, this bowl is mostly blue, but there are some tiny flecks of green in it. Some blue glitter and some shredded angel wings add interest to the bowl. I know I use angel wings a lot in my bowls, perhaps too much, but I love the way they lend a ragged look to the rim of the bowl.

Thanks so much for the trade, Nancy! I love my new camera. :)

I was in ACMoore recently with a 40% coupon, planning on getting a bottle of Mod Podge. I use two coats to seal each bowl, and Mod Podge stores well, so it's always good to have some on hand. There are several different versions of Mod Podge for sale ... matte, gloss, a formula specifically for paper ... and this time I noticed a version I hadn't seen before. Sparkle! I opened the lid; it looked like regular Mod Podge (which looks like Elmer's white glue), and it had a very fine glitter in it. Tiny rounds of blue, gold, light green, and pink. I like adding glitter to my paper, so I thought this might be fun to try. So that's what I bought with my coupon.


I had a nice selection of pink and lavender trash paper, so I decided to go for a pink bowl with pink angel wings. (I removed the seed pods on the angel wings so that I wouldn't get green dots in the bowl.) Since this was an experiment, I used a small bowl for the papercasting. A small bowl only needs four sheets of handmade paper to form the bowl, and a larger bowl needs eight, so it takes less time to build one, too.

The bowl came out beautifully; it's nice and sturdy, and I liked the texture. Now for the sparkle Mod Podge!

The first thing I noticed is that sparkle Mod Podge is not as thick on the sponge applicator as regular Mod Podge. With regular Mod Podge, I just have to dip the tip of the sponge applicator in the bottle and I get plenty. With this stuff, I had to dip a lot deeper to get enough to spread.

The second thing I noticed is the smell. Sparkle Mod Podge smells horrible! Someone with chemical sensitivities would hate working with this stuff. Once it dried, it was OK. It didn't leave a scent in the finished bowl. (Or at least, it didn't leave a scent I could detect.)

The third thing I noticed was the texture of the final product. It's definitely grainier than regular Mod Podge. It leaves a little bit of a gritty feel to the surface of the bowl, whereas regular Mod Podge dries silky and smooth. But the eye appeal is great; it gives an opalescent effect to the bowl.

Summary: I like it. I won't use it on every bowl, for sure, but for some colors and some projects, sparkle Mod Podge will be worth tolerating the stinky phase of application.

This bowl is available for $10 plus shipping, or offer me a trade for your art.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention earlier ... there's one more level of recycling going on in this bowl. Water! I used the water from the dehumidifier to make the paper, rather than water out of the faucet.

Now there's only the electricity. I know there's a handcranked blender on the market; when my blender finally dies, that's what I'm going to get next.

I made this a few months ago; I don't know why I haven't posted it sooner. I made this on my usual steel bowl, but a little shorter than I usually make. The resulting bowl is shallower and more flared at the rim. I used the last of the brightly colored postit notes that I had recycled from a sorting project I was doing in my Mount Holyoke collection, along with some purple packing paper and some purple flyers. (I'm always on the lookout for event flyers on community bulletin board that are advertising events that have already taken place. If I can get to them before the person who maintains the bulletin board, I can recycle them into bowls!)

This one is up for adoption; make me dinner (I'm in the Boston area) or trade with me for some of your art.

I've been waffling about wanting to keep this one. I really love it! I had used a whole bunch of vividly-colored postit notes to mark up a project I was doing, and when I was done, I recycled them into this bowl. I also added shredding angel wings (translucent dried flower petals) in both pink and purple, and some purple glitter. The result is very complex and intense.


No trade for this one; Paypal only. I need to mail it soon, or else I will keep it. :) $20 plus $5 shipping.

I haven't been doing a great job of posting bowl photos lately! This one was adopted by Karlita.

It was made with packing paper from a bicycle shop, plus some dark blue flyers advertising an event that had long since passed. I swiped the whole pile from a coffeeship's community bulletin board area! I do love it the people who use nice bright colors for their event flyers! The purple flowers are called angel wings; most people buy them for making potpourris, but I like them for papermaking. I bought a one-pound bag on eBay months ago, and still have a lot of it left.

I have a lot of bowls still lying around awaiting someone to adopt them. Make me an offer. Cash or art trade. I'm motivated and generous; try me!

I traded this one away this weekend. I got edamame and sushi at my favorite restaurant! I think I got the better end of the deal on this one.

This one was made with some green flyers from Berleye, some dark green tissue paper left over from Yule presents, and some dark green flyers from an expired event posted on a bulletin board in a coffeehouse. The purple is dyed angel wings, an orchid-like dried flower usually sold to potpourri makers. I was able to get a pound of them from eBay last year very cheaply, and I've enjoyed using them in many of the bowls I've made, including the one in my icon.


I hope to get back in the studio making more bowls soon!

I liked how the blue and gold bowl turned out, so I decided to try purple and gold. I had some irridescent gold tissue paper left over from the holidays, which I added to the gold layer. It came out with speckles of gold rather than blending in smoothly. Interesting!



Hey, it looks like there's something inside that bowl. What is it?










I put one purple skeleton leaf on the bottom. Reminds me of the sippy cups you had when you were a kid; if you drank all your juice, you got to see the little picture on the bottom of the cup. Well, only the most interested of admirers will find the secret purple leaf in this bowl! A reward for the observant folks.

This bowl is available for purchase ($20) or trade.

So many fans of purple bowls ... I had to go for the ultimate purple on purple!


There are some blended angel wings in it, plus the purple skeleton leaves. It's a bit thin, though, and flexes a little when you press on the sides. I usually like to make them thicker, but I ran out of pulp. If it had been one color, I could have made more pulp and blended it in. But since it was a blend of several different kinds of paper, I would not have been able to get a perfect match, and the final product would have looked blotchy. I do like how this one turned out, but it just can't be used to store anything heavy.

It's available for sale ($20) or trade.

There's an art gallery in Provincetown called Impulse that has this gorgeous bowl in its front window. It's dark blue on the outside, and irridescent gold on the inside. Either no one else on the planet likes it, or else they sell a lot of copies, because it's been on display for years. They even have a photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the store admiring it, and I think he was prez at the time the photo was taken.

Anyhow, I've admired that color combination, and decided to try my hand at it. The gold was created with old school assignments from L, and the blue was some blue tissue paper, some dark blue flyers from the Diesel Cafe, and some packing material from our local bike shop. I threw in some gold glitter on the gold layer, and some blue and gold glitter in the blue layer.

I like it! The blue isn't as deep as I would have liked, but it's hard for me to find truly saturated colors for recycling.



This bowl is available for sale or trade if anyone wants it.

I can't believe that I've had bowl photos stacking up, and at the height of gift-giving season I never got around to posting them! I'm still making paper, although not as much as I had been earlier this year. I've been spending more time at home being physically active, and that cuts into my art time. Oh, for 30-hour days, so that I could get more accomplished!

This bowl pleases me a lot. It's forest green on the outside, and a light sea green on the inside. The forest green color is unusual for me; I was able to make it thanks to some forest green tissue paper from J and S. It was very luscious when it was wet, and spoke to me of evergreen branches. I like the lighter green on the inside; it reminded me of new spring growth. So in combination, it's the promise of spring held in the boughs of winter.



It's available for trade if anyone wants it.

When I went to the Brimfield Flea Market in September, I sought out new molds for casting paper. I ended up coming home with a pretty glass saucer, and a glass bowl that was shallower, but wider, than the metal bowls I've been using. And they only cost me a dollar each!

I recently tried using the glass saucer as a mold. It worked pretty well. It's fast to make because it's small. Unfortunately, this photo is blurry; I don't know why it didn't focus well. But the saucer has a raised pattern to it, which casted nicely onto the paper. I trimmed the edges with scissors afterward, and gave it two coats of mod podge, so it will be a sturdy little saucer. It can hold paper clips and postage stamps on your desk, or the loose change in your pockets or your jewelry at the end of the day.

It's available for trade for anyone who wants it. If anyone wants me to make a saucer in some other color, let me know; I don't want to make lots of them if there is no demand. But they're fun to make, so I hope you like it!

A few weeks ago, I posted a photo to a little blue bowl with skeleton leaves in it. It was a big hit, and Lisa asked me to pretty-please make another one. I didn't want to make one exactly the same, so I made this one with silver skeleton leaves. I think the blue is a little lighter as well.


Looking at it now, I wish there was more contrast in the colors between the blue and the silver. Especially because I let the blue pulp cover parts of the silver leaves, rather than adding them on the surface after the bowl has dried and having them fully in view. But the original bowl didn't have a lot of contrast either, and yet people liked it. So maybe someone will like this one. It's available for trade or purchase.

Someone (and I apologize for not remembering who) left me a comment a while ago asking whether I could make a bowl with more natural colors. I puzzled over that, since I usually use junk mail and there's not a lot of brown junk mail out there.

Then I considered using a brown grocery bag. But I didn't want the bowl to be plain matte brown. I thought that might be too dull, or make it look too much like, well, a bowl-shaped grocery bag. So I pawed through my paper reserves, and pulled out some cream, and some light yellow, and mixed that in with some of the brown paper of the grocery bag. That still looked kind of nondescript, so purple angel wings to the rescue!



I really like it. It's available for purchase or trade if anyone is interested.

It seems like the two most popular colors for the bowls I make are purple, and red. So I decided to combine them both into one bowl.

I started out with lavender bike shop packing paper. I had a red irridescent ribbon that came in an eBay package; I cut it to break it down into its fibers and added the red fibers to the lavender paper. Then I added one sheet of dark purple tissue paper, and half a sheet of red tissue paper. (Red tends to overwhelm any color, so I must learn to be sparing with it. I think I could have used even less for this bowl.)

Red skeleton leaves were the finishing touch. The bowl came out thinner than usual; I think I need to use extra when I'm using mostly the lavender bike shop packing paper. I wouldn't recommend storing anything heavier than potpourri in it.



This bowl is available for trade or purchase.

After I made a purple bowl recently, I had enough paper left over from making the darker outside layer to make a set of ten greeting cards.


The cards (plus envelopes) are available for trade or purchase. Make me an offer!

The poll I took, asking whether to put leaves on both the inside and the outside of the green bowl, or just on the inside, came out split exactly 50-50. That made me chuckle for sure! You were as undecided about it as I was!

So I decided to add the leaves to the outside, and finished the bowl. Here it is!



It is available for purchase or trade.

There are two shapes of skeleton leaves available for sale. The oval-shaped leaf I used in the blue bowl is from a rubber tree, and there's also a teardrop-shaped leaf from a po tree. I bought some of both in the 2" size, and also some of the rubber tree leave in a 1" size. The po leaves are not available smaller than 2" long, but in real life the po leaves sold as 2" are longer than that. The 2" rubber tree leaves fit fine on both the smaller bowl and the larger bowl (the leaves in the blue bowl were 2" size), but it turned out the 2" po leaves are too big to fit on my smaller bowl. Not wanting to waste them, I tried using them on the larger bowl.

Very similar colors to yesterday's bowl, but it's not the same recipe. I used black glitter in the outside layer, and didn't use purple angel wing blossoms. It was a different combination of purple papers on the outside layer, too, so the color is not quite the same.

I do love how the inside layer came out. I used the purple bike shop packing paper, but every bowl comes out a little different than the bowl before! This time, it has a wonderful glowing quality about it that I really like. Some of the seams of the paper piecing show just a little, and it looks like clouds to me. It does make me want to experiment more with that purple packing paper, that's for sure.

This bowl is available for purchase or trading.

Now, feedback time! I'm working on a green bowl with copper leaves right now. The copper leaves are the same size as the black ones in this picture. I put the leaves on the inside, but I haven't yet put them on the outside. You can see from this picture how large the leaves are; would having leaves on both the inside and the outside be too much?

The local bike store was unpacking some stuff a few weeks ago, and they had piles and piles of this really nifty light lavender paper that they use as packing material, piled up to be thrown out. I gathered up a huge armload of it and toted it home.

It's not regular paper. It feels kind of like crepe paper, but it's really strong. And it tears only in one direction; if you try and tear it in another direction, it really fights you. It was a pain to work with, and the blender had to work harder than usual.

But it makes lovely paper! I used it for the inside of this bowl, and I used brighter purples, dark purple tissue paper, and some shredded dark purple angel wings to make the outside of the bowl. I really like how this one turned out.



This one is available for trade or purchase.