I cleverly wrote several blog posts in advance since I knew I'd be unable to blog over the long holiday weekend, but I left them all as "drafts" and forgot to set publish times. Whoops! So there will be a flurry of short, possibly inconsequential posts while I get caught up.
Here are some photos for you collage artists to drool over -- the magnificent wall o' paper at Sterling Art in Costa Mesa, California. I had to go down there recently to pick up some supplies for the LK Ludwig workshop I'm taking next weekend, and I didn't need any fancy paper but I couldn't help taking a peek. It's kind of ridiculous but it's like a walk down Memory Lane for me; at each section of paper samples I can point to at least nine or ten and say, "Oh, I loved using that one! Hey, I still have some of that one somewhere... Wow, I used that one in such-and-such-project I gave to so-and-so twelve years ago..." and so on. If I ever bothered to add up all the prices I'd faint dead away, right there in the aisle.
Hello, my name is Suz and I am a paper junkie. A recently (temporarily?) reformed one, anyway, because I have been giving my paper stash away to numerous zine subscribers five ounces at a time, and I managed to resist buying any new papers on this visit to Sterling. Although there was a gorgeous new one, grapey purple paper shot through with shiny raised red threads, and a pale green pulpy sheet printed with delicate pea blossoms and tendrils...I mean, just look at the five colors of mulberry paper embossed to resemble crocodile skin!! Must...step...away...
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