All Gretchen, All the Time
Finally! Gretchen gave me permission to post a link to her new blog! She doesn't have a notify button (hey, wait, I don't either - must fix) - but I use changedetection.com for the majority of my journal and blog notifications anyway. So go read the entries she's posted so far. I'll wait.
Isn't she funny? And smart? I just love her writing. She's got a juicy entry coming up but I'm not telling what it's about. (How's that for a tease??)
She's a very nice person too. Check this out. One of the women in her writing group had her house burn down recently and she lost her computer and all the stuff she'd been working on, among everything else. The women in the writing group email each other their projects before they meet so they all have a chance to review them before they get together to discuss. So Gretchen gathered all the poems and stories this woman had emailed the group and I put them together in a book. The group is going to present the book to her when they meet on Tuesday, along with letters of encouragement each of them has written to her. They'll send her the pieces electronically too once she gets up and running, but I thought this was a sweet way of showing their support for her.
It's a split cover book, meaning the front is in two pieces so it opens at the split. I scored all the pages inside so they should bend easily too. It was a lot of fun to make and hopefully no one will notice that the pattern on the paper is upside down. I swear I was keeping an eye on that - and still screwed it up. It's such an abstract design, it's not that noticeable that birds and butterflies are flying upside down, she said hopefully. :-( Hey, at least the front and back cover are both upside down.
Isn't she funny? And smart? I just love her writing. She's got a juicy entry coming up but I'm not telling what it's about. (How's that for a tease??)
She's a very nice person too. Check this out. One of the women in her writing group had her house burn down recently and she lost her computer and all the stuff she'd been working on, among everything else. The women in the writing group email each other their projects before they meet so they all have a chance to review them before they get together to discuss. So Gretchen gathered all the poems and stories this woman had emailed the group and I put them together in a book. The group is going to present the book to her when they meet on Tuesday, along with letters of encouragement each of them has written to her. They'll send her the pieces electronically too once she gets up and running, but I thought this was a sweet way of showing their support for her.
It's a split cover book, meaning the front is in two pieces so it opens at the split. I scored all the pages inside so they should bend easily too. It was a lot of fun to make and hopefully no one will notice that the pattern on the paper is upside down. I swear I was keeping an eye on that - and still screwed it up. It's such an abstract design, it's not that noticeable that birds and butterflies are flying upside down, she said hopefully. :-( Hey, at least the front and back cover are both upside down.
posted by Stefani at 7:08 PM
3 Comments:
How sweet of you guys. As for the upside down birds they do that when they get into fermented grapes. lol
blog owner approval? Won't be struggling at Gretchen's again. bg
damn stef I can see those letters but it is not taking on first try!
third try coming up!
The book is absolutely beautiful. Joyce is definitely going to burst into tears at the site of it. It's really great! Thanks so much, Stef.
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