Artist books, linen squares and Misfits

Yesterday's Misfits came, without tomatoes, they'd already warned me, maybe a heatwave casualty

The plums are tart, probably will work in a cake,  until they ripen.

I really like the wholewheat pita bread, my current go to for breakfast. 

And since the shoulder, though showing signs of improvement, is not ready for close work, I did a different thing I've been meaning to for ages, not too demanding.

I organized the art postcards my honorary granddaughter sends regularly on various themes. At one a week, they add up amazingly.  

They're all  precious keepers so it's about how to enjoy them.

Accordion books are my answer, to display them. But first to sort.  Botanicals, Inuit, other Canadian, Japanese woodblock prints,  Pantone colors, and more,  and the really spectacular silkworm cases.

I may keep the Pantone cards loose, so as to put different colors side by side as a visual game. As you know, colors change perceptually depending on what other colors are next to them.

But the silkworm casings, mounted on heavy paper as folded notecatds,  I interleaved and tied with a piece of handmade and dyed daylily cord (!) as a kibd of sculpture.

The other artist books will happen when I get more tape to attach them. Meanwhile they're organized and ready.

And, my inner maker still needing a little something, I did a bit more stitching on those linen square samples.

This is another interesting experience in color, and I was amazed to find I could thread my needle and stitch small without glasses, wheeee!! Just as well, since my glasses aren't a lot of use right now.

Another hot day today, plants watered early, Rosenfelt audiobook loaded, cool food.

Happy day everyone, and I hope your air conditioning works if you're in the heatwave as most of us are, here another heat index in the 100s, and that if you don't have air conditioning, you manage somehow.

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