Bookmaking: journal from a book

Didn't want Door Wide Open - letters from Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson. 

Removed the pages and glued in my own signatures (blank pages) to make a hardcover journal. 

Aloe & iced tea

Train

French press

So so lamp

A lamp at my parent's house that only my mom likes. 

Handtowels

Quickly handsewed handtowels early this morning.

Happy to be drawing: a drawing

V8

Alabama Chanin short coat in progress

 

Back piece is painted, straight stitched and reverse appliqué cut work is done.  Sleeve is painted & stitched. 

Self portrait

No that is not supposed to be a goatee- it's a shadow! 

The fight list: short stories

Reading makes you smarter.  Good thing I'm still reading short stories.  

I recently read a bunch of stories about fighting, prisoners, and war.  Happy Fourth of July! 

A Father to Be, Saul Bellow

The Wall, Jean-Paul Sartre 

Who's Passing for Who?, Langston Hughes

My Melancholy Face, Heinrich Boll

The Tortoise, Luigi Pirandello

Jackals and Arabs, Franz Kafka

All The Troubles of the World, Isaac Asimov

The Brigadier, Isaac Rosenfeld

Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen

Escape, Ilya Varshavsky

My Side of the Matter, Truman Capote

The Secret Room, Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cup o' pens