Making Summary

I had to make a last minute trip back to Connecticut earlier this month and so I haven't been able to blog for a while. Before I left, I took 2 classes on bookmaking. Here's a brief summary of what I did.

First, I took a short course from Jennie Hinchcliff of Red Letter Day Zine on basic bookmaking, so I could brush up on my zine making skills. 

There was shredded money, Michigan map and bingo card paper, so we broke out the stamps and made some single sheet books.

Next, I took an altered board books class with Courtney Cerruti. We started out with regular old children's board books and, with the handy help of gesso, acrylic paint, rubber stamps, washi tape, words and glue, turned them into books of our own creation.

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaur Bones

Tomorrow is the July 4 holiday and, after several long and rough weeks, I'm as excited for the mid-week holiday as a child. So I thought it was only fitting to post these images of the best floor in the American Museum of Natural History: the dinosaur floor! I mean every kid loves dinosaurs, right?
I went to the museum with two other twenty somethings and we all were like children looking at the fossils, I believe we spent about 3 hours on this floor of alone! These photos are a small sample of what we saw.