Eight years of blogging today!
It feels good to be eight years old.
Weblog Birthday, 8 years old!
Tag: November 20
November 20, 2013
Four year birthday for my blog!
It’s been quiet here lately… I’ve missed being here, as posting is one of the things I like most about my life. Three months ago I had knee-replacement surgery, and it’s been quite a journey. Feels like I’ve been in a cocoon as the healing has been happening. Good days and bad days. Every day things feel just a little bit better, and that’s a good thing.
I made the pop-up pictured here as a sample for a class that I taught maybe 15 years ago at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a real gem of a museum. It’s an appropriate image for me to show right now, not only because it has four lit candles , but also because I am thinking about a couple of posts that I want to do on making pop-ups. Generally, when I do pop-ups I am doing them with young children, so it’s important to keep things simple while still making them interesting. I have to say that I am always impressed, with what a big impression creating these structures makes on children. I know that, in the book and paper arts world, that pop-ups are well covered, but we all have our styles, tricks, and fascinations. I look forward to sharing mine here.
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Three Years and a Day
November 20, 2012: Happy Birthday to Bookzoompa, my web log.
Yesterday marked the end of the third year that this blog has been up and running. 143,674 visits, as of yesterday. To celebrate I made some big splashes of color with Adobe Illustrator.
Tucked away inside of the Templates of Adobe I found this pattern for a traditional Japanese envelope/box. I like just making big pages of color with Adobe, but I also like doing something with the designs.
I added the colors to the templates, folded the curved lines, and glued the long edge. Then I filled the boxes with teas bags that were filled with herbal tea harvested from my garden.
Thank you for visiting my Happy Birthday Blog post. Make yourself a box from me, as my thanks to you for stopping by and honoring me with your attention.
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