tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22766146007494072582024-02-22T17:44:57.137+01:00paper made me poorleah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-62059647640380109082013-03-17T11:48:00.003+00:002013-03-17T11:50:25.478+00:00Old Homes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last year (or so) I've felt increasingly to have lost my sense of nationality. I was born Canadian, but my family only adopted it as a home a few years before I was born. Before that, they were American for a while and I, too, am considered American by default - or, more technically, 'born abroad', but I've never lived there. And, for the last 3+ years I've lived and made a home-of-sorts in a country with absolutely no familial or ancestral anchor. Besides all that, I have basically no voting rights in any of those countries. A citizen, but not really so. It's a strange feeling, but the semi-vagabond life A and I have led for the last few years has really taught us to rely greatly on ourselves and we've been extremely fortunate to have found some incredible and kind friends who have helped us along the way to make a home simply where we happen to be. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I usually think of North America (primarily Canada) as the place where a great many family and friends live, but I don't often feel a nostalgic pull. In fact, as the days approach to a flight back, I tend feel a bit queasy. I guess I've always felt this way about 'going home' - I used to feel sick every time the bus rode past familiar markers on its route from Toronto and into my hometown of London. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we went back last summer it had a been a while since we'd visited last and our 4 weeks on that continent weren't shaping up to be any kind of relaxing holiday. I didn't even feel the need to pack my digital camera. I just threw a mostly-working old Lomo camera I had from a flea market without really caring if any pictures came out. I know this is all sounding pretty negative - and, admittedly I was feeling negative about that trip for many various reasons, not even developing the film for nearly 8 months afterward as another trip back approaches. But I finally did and I'll admit that for the first in a long time, I felt a tiny bit nostalgic as I flipped through some of the pictures that came out...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the top: a bit of summer beauty from both of our parent's homes; The late, great Felix; Montreal; New York (Brooklyn City Hall hold a tiny bit of significance for us and I was reminded of it as we passed by); Pickering from the GOTrain; Parkdale </span></div>
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leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-13639199762152002772013-02-13T19:54:00.000+00:002013-02-13T19:55:40.270+00:00Crossing over, again.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things seem to move so slowly this time of year. I've actually been pretty busy and a lot has been happening, but I still feel so unproductive. I think this mostly has to do with 80% of life occurring in near-darkness this time of year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no photos to show any sort of forward momentum in my life, but that train I'm not on is going somewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, I have been and will continue to spend more hours at my desk (with the above view) as I prepare for workshops - one that you can sign up for on the left side of this page! - and, a trip to North America that will include me participating in <a href="http://www.cityofcraft.com/2013/spring/index.html" target="_blank">City of Craft's Spring Show</a>. Anyone who's ever run through the archive of this page will know how close this show is to me. In fact, we're pretty much staying in Canada for the extra weeks after some travels because of it! (more on those travels later)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, there's some other exciting stuff that will unfold over the next months, but I'll save that as motivation to keep up with blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like having a pine tree in my apartment, but its presence this year has meant the opposite of work - its existence in our living room has been of symbol of regret to every invitation and chore for more than 2 weeks over the holidays. So with everyone now on flights back over the ocean, we chucked this lovely baum to the curb. I'm ready to fall back into planning and playing out the next 6-8 months. Something that is a daily routine in this house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, some sort of horrible haze has my body in a phlegm-y grip and my will to be productive isn't winning. I did, however, start to fill <a href="http://coldsnapbindery.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">THIS</a> place up! The 2 minutes of daylight Berlin currently experiences makes taking proper pictures difficult, but I'll try again tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, I'm working on putting together a series of workshops for artists of useful bookbinding techniques. These will be small group classes where people will get a chance to experiment with some techniques and materials from making a portfolio folder to binding loose sheets and making your own sketchbooks. Fun stuff! If this is something that interests you or if you know someone who might be into this, comment below or send me a message! </span><br />
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leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-5842923972672691162012-10-23T19:34:00.001+00:002012-10-23T19:34:38.642+00:00My Binding Side<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My life in <a href="http://nadja.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Nadja</a> occupies most of the year so I set a goal by applying to a big market each year. This last weekend we hopped a train and spent just 24 hours in Hamburg for <a href="http://www.hello-handmade.com/" target="_blank">Hello-Handmade</a>. I have to give some big ups to A for helping me haul my heavy cases around town and spend an entire day with crafty types. Selling is the hardest part of the process for me and there is no way for me not to feel awkward doing so.</span><div>
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leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-17373857749704118462012-10-23T18:58:00.000+00:002012-10-23T18:58:20.186+00:00Happy (belated) Birthday Mom/Sarah/Baba & Pop/Alex/Deda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After about a year of planning, my six siblings and I threw a surprise birthday party for our parents. It wasn't an easy soiree to pull together with all of us spread out up and down the east coast and me so far away. Besides that, the guest list included members of our family and old friends spread out along both coasts! However, these expressions, caught blurrily by my niece Maggie, made it worthwhile.</span></div>
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leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-6994291351511499192012-08-22T18:31:00.000+01:002012-08-22T18:36:20.628+01:00nice ride<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our only real destination was the <a href="http://www.bauhaus.de/">bauhaus-archiv </a>to see an exhibition that closes very soon on the work of <a href="http://bauhaus-online.de/atlas/personen/benita-koch-otte">Benita Koch-Otte</a>. There were maybe a dozen woven pieces, and lots of really beautiful designs on paper which made me wish more of them got made into proper textiles. I'd seen a lot of her designs on various websites, but I guess like all art, it's best seen up close and for real so if you're in Berlin and this is up your alley, check it out while you can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting back to work today in my little corner meant stringing up a line and coating a whole bunch of washi paper in konnyaku starch! I guess most people who use it try to get as much wrinkly texture as possible into their paper, but as my plans require strong and flat-ish paper, I was a little gentler in my wringing. I got my little tub magic-paper-strengthening starch at <a href="http://www.thepaperplace.ca/">The Paper Place in Toronto</a>. </span><br />
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leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-45488181880969543182012-08-04T08:21:00.001+00:002012-08-04T08:21:45.475+00:00unlike me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: arial;">I have a habit of doing things that go against my instincts. Getting up on stage is one of them. Running public and/or interactive projects like <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">The Wunderkabinet</a> and now, <a href="http://www.thelesenlounge.com">The Lesen Lounge</a> is another.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I'm shy and I'm awkward and interacting with strangers kind of freaks me out. Thank goodness for the incredibly generous help - particularly from Ina, Cati, and Aidan - I've gotten to pull it all together, but when it comes down to it, the responsibility to explain myself to the confused masses falls on me. Geographically, this also means I do it in mangled English-German.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Anxieties aside, I'm pretty excited to be pulling out The Lesen Lounge for the first time this Sunday. I've decided to unveil the finished bike trailer/library box after the Sunday outing, but here's a 'before' paint, 'after' construction picture:
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<p>It'll be going out regularly - as long as the sun is shining - over the next months. If you live in Berlin you should come and visit. To find out when and where we'll be, check our <a href="http://www.thelesenlounge.com">website</a>! <br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I have so much to work on these days that the storms and rain this last week only serve as an excuse to not leave the house. Today, a lack of food in the fridge - and fear of atrophy - forced me out.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I walked from our place to the Turkish Market along the water, through a quickly disappearing no-man's-land. All the rain these last weeks has made everything so green, and flowers are sprouting up out of the sandy soil. I didn't have my camera with me so I took out my newly upgraded ipod (with camera) - a birthday gift from Aidan - to fool around with along my walk. It's not a terribly great camera, but also not a terribly terrible one. And, my listening is uninterrupted as I fiddle with other functions.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">It's a little difficult to imagine how the picture will look large as you fiddle with neat little editing tools, and I think I may have gone a little overboard with edge-fading and filters.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Since first hearing about <a href="http://kulturpark.org/">Kulturpark</a> and what they hoped to do with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreepark">Spreepark</a>, idling and slowly being stolen away by people (I presume) hoping to add some Berlin cachet to their apartments, I was totally onboard and even contributed to their Kickstarter campaign. Then came the inevitable walls of bureaucracy and when they opened the park to the public this weekend, this is what we encountered along a (literally) red-taped perimeter around a few bier stands and food stalls:
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What was operational during the weekend was the old train tour around the perimeter of the entire park. It was surreal and oddly unsafe feeling - particularly - as we moved over the florescent water of a decaying ride and through a pitch-dark tunnel that smelled pungently of rot.
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I do hope some their big plans come to fruition. I went exploring the park early one morning a few years ago with my friend, Jill, and what I saw from the train this weekend proves that the park's vacancy is leading to it very slowly being lost.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">A few nights ago, Aidan began a <a href="http://brokenspineprods.wordpress.com/performances/">solo tour</a> with <a href="http://www.slowsecret.com/a-sun-amissa.html">A-Sun Amissa</a>. It started with a really great show here, in Berlin, at West Germany. I wish I could share audio from the entire night here, on the blog. It was super great. Between sets, <a href="http://www.hlg.se/">Helge</a> dj'd a perfect mix and Aidan played in a super trio with <a href="http://http//www.miasmah.com/eks/index.html">Erik Skodvin</a> & <a href="http://www.chocolateguns.com/content/">Andrea Belfi</a>. Really only the third time - ever - the three of them played together, it was truly great and they've got to get that shit recorded. Seriously.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Aidan being on the road, I'm left at home to work and (grudgingly) make my own coffee. It's tough getting motivated when the workaholic I share my space with isn't around to make me feel guilty about loafing around, but I'm working on the foundations of what will be <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com/">The Wunderkabinet's</a> big project of the year. I've pared down from constant exhibitions to accommodate for tours and a trip back to Canada this summer. I'd also like to go as nuts as possible where the kabinet is concerned so focussing on one big project right now is the way to go. More on that later.
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<span style="font-family: arial;">For now, I'm working through an immediate to-do list of things long overdue. Alright, I'm also crocheting myself a cape while watching episodes of Downton Abbey. This is the first thing I've ever crocheted using an actual pattern and it's a big project! It will be about hip length with arm slits and button-up. I thought I'd try to chronicle my progress:
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</span></div>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-40979015018598914522012-02-18T19:13:00.001+00:002012-02-18T19:13:44.709+00:00Domo arigato<FONT FACE="arial">We went to Japan.
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We toured with a really great band - that we also made a little collaborative <a href="http://nadja.bandcamp.com/album/the-primitive-world">tour cd</a> with - called <a href="http://vampillia.com/">Vampillia</a>. Not only is Vampillia a great band and NOT TO BE MISSED should they come to your town, they are hosts like no other and just very swell people.
We came home to a frozen Berlin.
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<p><FONT FACE="arial">I've spent a lot of time staring out of car, train, and aeroplane windows, and it might be my years spent in the middle of Ontario forests with my family nostalgically catching up with me, but I've got hundreds of photos that I took from these cars, trains and aeroplanes of northern European forests. I love the way birch trees look in the snow and clumps pine trees look from the air. I even bought a giant piece of locally woven linen in Tallinn, Estonia last winter after I was inspired by the landscape of wintery Finland as we flew over it and wanted to embroider what I saw. Well, that or the icy water that clogged up the small channel that separates Finland and Estonia. I can't decide so that chunk of fabric remains in a box.
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Instead, I've been doing a lot of this.
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I sold a couple these before I could even photograph them - my own fault for archival laziness - but, I kind of love the way they're turning out so there'll be many more. </FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-76923710086564862102011-11-06T10:13:00.002+00:002011-11-06T10:13:10.436+00:00So Much Road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p><FONT FACE="arial">Sometimes so much happens between the posts I make here that I find it a little overwhelming to 'update'. Sometimes I'd rather just go for a bike ride than unload my camera. I've really only done one thing since that September post, but it has left me with a million pictures I need to sort, an apartment to clean, and mountains of laundry. AND, I'm not quite finished.
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This last tour had us criss-crossing Germany, in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, The United Kingdom, Norway, Latvia, and Lithuania. Next week we're off to Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, and Hungary. Oh, and we'll be spending part of the first week of December on the island of Madeira. Our schedule has been a little mental, with just enough time in Berlin between trips for a nap in our own bed and a bowl of Aidan's comforting gruel. At this point, I would be wallowing in my fatigue had these last weeks not been very good. [knocking on wood] Also, I'm pretty excited as the rest of our time on the road this year has us going to places we've never been.
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Here's just a few pictures from a few of those places...
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in order: Kavka - Antwerp, Belgium; Kafe Kult - Munich, Germany; walking around old Nürnberg, Germany; Frappant - Hamburg, Germany; old fort ruins on the Baltic in Liepaja, Latvia; mossy ground swallowing me up in Durbe, Latvia; Durbe, Lativa; Aidan rehearsing with his Latvian band in 400 year old church; a piece of medieval Lithuania outside the cathedral in Vilnius
</FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-72953299109910848272011-09-13T14:55:00.000+00:002011-09-13T17:06:37.301+00:00Hi, Again.<FONT FACE="arial">I haven't been here for a while now. For most of the last few months, I've been spending 3 days a week over at the <a href="http://de.etsy.com/blog/labs">Etsy Labs</a> tending to my little project, <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">The Wunderkabinet/Reading Raum</a> - you might have heard me mention it. It closed with summer, but my brain is still churning so it will resurface one day soon.
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What else has been goin' on? Well, we moved from the crazy gentrification of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberg">Kreuzberg</a> to the watery calm of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummelsburg">Rummelsburg</a>. Where's that, you say? It's (probably) east of wherever you are.
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Moving also meant that <a href="http://www.coldsnapbindery.com">coldsnap bindery</a> got to have a studio again - this has meant that time at home has been spent in production!! All those books (and even more!) are going to be available at <a href="http://www.renegadecraft.com/london">Renegade London</a> this October. I'm going to share a stall with my super pal <a href="http://superninon.blogspot.com/">Tania</a>! If you are reading this and you are in London this October (that is, the original one in the U.K., and not my hometown), you should come and say hello.
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Let's see, what else? Well, tomorrow we leave on tour! This is shaping up to be a very busy fall as we're on and off the road for most of the next few months. We start off tomorrow in Amsterdam with our friends, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/picastro">Picastro</a>! Speaking of which, you should totally check out a little <a href="http://brokenspineprods.bandcamp.com/album/fool-redeemer">record we did together</a>.
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I'll try to keep up with everything happening in the real world, in this one. Bis bald!
</FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-31046880051327949752011-08-08T18:52:00.000+00:002011-08-08T18:52:29.631+00:00Where's Leah?<font FACE="arial"><a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">HERE</a>! </FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-33647142317797819472011-03-31T10:02:00.003+00:002011-03-31T10:13:58.355+00:00Of Boris & Becky <br />
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<p><font FACE="arial">There are just a handful of people left in the western world that lead rare and amazing lives. Often, their sustainability is threatened by the forces of man, nature and sometimes both.<br />
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If you've ever brushed past the surface of this blog or my own life, you are no stranger to <a href="http://www.sweetiepiepress.com/splash.html">Becky Johnson</a>. There are even a hundred (or so) Nadja fans out there sporting a Becky Johnson designed <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=367948992366&set=a.367948957366.154903.8124062366">t-shirt</a>. What many of you don't know is that Becky and her partner, the <a href="http://www.misanthropespecialtyco.com/">Reverend Aitor</a> - <a href="http://crucialblast.net/nadja_desireinuneasiness.html">another Nadja collaborator</a> - do a substantial amount of their work on the road. In the past, they have criss-crossed North America in the crocheted-afghan-interior of beat-up Dodge station wagon, Boris Karloff, but like everything manufactured in the early 80's (take note 'Cosby' sweaters) expiration dates are imminent. <br />
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Along with working along and with the road, Becky also runs a <a href="http://sweetiepiepress.blogspot.com/">blog</a> that not only chronicles their life, but also serves as a huge resource to crafters, artists, and makers across the continent. The so so sad demise of Boris has put a serious kink in this year's schedule and help is needed to make sure The Sweetie Pie & Reverend make it out again this year. I could go on and on, but I think you should just watch this video and let Becky tell you all about it! Then, visit her <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1356896198/sweetie-pie-press-2011-summer-craft-tour">Kickstarter project</a> and back this project while getting something great in return!<br />
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</FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-74173557147118303762011-01-16T23:33:00.000+00:002011-01-16T23:33:28.862+00:00So many facets, so little time.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAZOKDEUabGeQUb1V0o-HWKCFIkJwbef7kSHEjNGYawIE8dBjU6Vt79dqBrUjQYWt6cjpHEKj2XIxXNJvRDkag1lGyNc545TfBKkP78CQZ-VNqRu-yPJ0koecbMvdRaF4TEeAa7f9m_oJ/s1600/vernissageblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAZOKDEUabGeQUb1V0o-HWKCFIkJwbef7kSHEjNGYawIE8dBjU6Vt79dqBrUjQYWt6cjpHEKj2XIxXNJvRDkag1lGyNc545TfBKkP78CQZ-VNqRu-yPJ0koecbMvdRaF4TEeAa7f9m_oJ/s400/vernissageblog.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<font FACE="arial">My waking life is strewn in many directions, often all at once, so catching up on things and posting on others is a task often filed at the end of my to-do list. I'm working on a better organization system, but honestly, that's been in the works for YEARS.<br />
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That said, this week <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/2-two-zwei/">The Wunderkabinet</a> IS my life, but not without a bit <a href="http://brokenspineprods.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/cagey/">this</a>. <br />
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By 'this', I mean, picture Aidan and I folding, stamping, and numbering these. All letter-pressed by the amazing Sabrina of <a href="http://www.smallcaps-berlin.de/">small caps</a>:<br />
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</FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-62741086874775400862011-01-10T22:07:00.000+00:002011-01-10T22:07:29.897+00:00New-ish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTwD0bCWQR10NJxbonwP-QfexJ4hgYounV94K3sGFlx25GJBLU27t-X4pacz5eFznhyphenhyphen7QTykoZsb_7KtMV_6YMW3Qpmgujk7iCfwq0DLoGtybw4WRO_79jLSlSnBmzTSGyWr2fvPetTUiM/s1600/optima+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="268" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTwD0bCWQR10NJxbonwP-QfexJ4hgYounV94K3sGFlx25GJBLU27t-X4pacz5eFznhyphenhyphen7QTykoZsb_7KtMV_6YMW3Qpmgujk7iCfwq0DLoGtybw4WRO_79jLSlSnBmzTSGyWr2fvPetTUiM/s400/optima+005.jpg" /></a></div><font FACE="arial">This is something new to me. Not completely, but mostly. What this also is, is just for me. Well, and Aidan when he feels like joining in. I'm not doing this for any other reason other than to do this for the sake of doing. Something I'm not used to doing.<br />
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That little wonder up there, found at a Berlin flea market, along with another little wonder arriving via post from somewhere in the Ukraine will be a wholly extra-curricular activity for A and me. This one in particular will have me unraveling 35mm film and rolling it into little cartridges to be usable. <br />
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Although this plan has been in the works long before this new year, it does come with a resolution: take fewer pictures. </FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-20230535594131403112010-12-25T16:24:00.003+00:002010-12-25T16:32:41.077+00:00Merry Christmas......Love, Mom & Pop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS3NNs8qVnFR0yTTmPzMVhEK_lK5G5iEktrT4rIW1hnd5zT9X2JgrIlCyeBFXf2P2D8cWX7jheASeuKfEtMwtnsnnEUvGRNjF6OQZt8jmdBwqWPaxzh7aalTaqRvipNSWd3KOL3-zFmivM/s1600/25.12.10+011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="268" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS3NNs8qVnFR0yTTmPzMVhEK_lK5G5iEktrT4rIW1hnd5zT9X2JgrIlCyeBFXf2P2D8cWX7jheASeuKfEtMwtnsnnEUvGRNjF6OQZt8jmdBwqWPaxzh7aalTaqRvipNSWd3KOL3-zFmivM/s400/25.12.10+011.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<font FACE="arial">This arrived yesterday packed full of food and a couple treats. Need I say more?</></FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-24481372661492037482010-12-03T10:54:00.008+00:002010-12-03T14:13:29.282+00:00Pile Up...<FONT FACE="arial">This happens every December - no matter where in the world I happen to be. As much as I would love to deal with the snowy one happening outside my window, I first need to tackle the one in my schedule. <br /><br />Over the past few years <a href="http://www.cityofcraft.com">City of Craft</a> occupied this space in my mind and with my leaving that city for my adoptive new home, it's been a little sad to completely sever the ties. I won't physically be in Toronto this December, but a few little pieces of me will be. <br /><br /><p align=center><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityofcraft/5177313390/" title="Leah's Plate by city of craft, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/5177313390_cc7fcef96d.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Leah's Plate" /></a><p align=center>photo by <a href="http://www.danijelapruginic.com">Danijela Pruginic</a><p><br />City of Craft is organizing two exhibitions and I'll be in both! The first is <a href="http://cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/forkeeps/">For Keeps: A Mending Show</a>, co-curated by <a href="http://torontocraftalert.ca">Jen</a> who picked up one of my sad, sad attempts to salvage a favorite plate when she came to visit me this fall. From what I've seen, this show might make you look at the cracks and holes in your own belongings with a new affection. The opening reception caps off a mending session with a dance party! Attending could only make you feel better about yourself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFB3UHnwlzed79P8skez5O5Yg5DwcteafoVWDZJc7rfsrF6ug4Wc43oWmHBGBm6zQFVNFkKqeKpB4f3JSCyLD1DR0nF3I3jzPzpscMRY6MUR8ZWBTIqJi5JyL43_s8gtcSAuYEr1_LgWhh/s1600/lithuanian+litu+close.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFB3UHnwlzed79P8skez5O5Yg5DwcteafoVWDZJc7rfsrF6ug4Wc43oWmHBGBm6zQFVNFkKqeKpB4f3JSCyLD1DR0nF3I3jzPzpscMRY6MUR8ZWBTIqJi5JyL43_s8gtcSAuYEr1_LgWhh/s400/lithuanian+litu+close.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546430186036488114" /></a><p align=center>photo by <a href="http://www.anja-haering.de/">Anja Haering</a><p><br />The pieces I've submitted to <a href="http://cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/loveandmoney/index.html">Love & Money</a>, curated by the so very talented <a href="http://www.tarabursey.com">Tara Bursey</a>, is handwork I'm a little more proud of. I also feel pretty honored to share the gallery at <a href="http://www.craft.on.ca/">Ontario Crafts Council</a> with the other incredible artist-makers in the show. There were some sleepless nights involved in finishing these pieces and some pretty serious self-doubt after endlessly scrutinizing every thread involved; it actually felt nice to release them. <br /><br />In the city and space I physically occupy, I've been really busy teaching bookbinding to those that want to learn....in english. <a href="http://www.labastellerie.com">La Bastellerie</a> has me booked for <a href="http://labastellerie.com/blog/workshops/">two separate workshops</a> each month from the easy postcard book to more intensive hardcover-making sessions. Of course, you could always take the easy route to gift-giving this holiday and just buy one of my books directly from me at La Bastellerie's annual holiday edition of the <a href="http://labastellerie.com/blog/dezember-highlight/">D.I.Y. Trunkshow</a>! Come and get drunk on Glühwein then lay down some dough on the great handmade stuffs on offer. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2yzNVFO1cR5JOQzkj03gFz2_ac5C70Dxpf0wnGuenB5mvCP022Cvfo1qxzeQnFYJvp51FZLmPD7kLyOq-JGWOppv0MQMXPEjSCLmVZ0DJ5YBF6q-D4vSwXpUHomS4hWkjDKL27stE7nt/s1600/trunkshow_3.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2yzNVFO1cR5JOQzkj03gFz2_ac5C70Dxpf0wnGuenB5mvCP022Cvfo1qxzeQnFYJvp51FZLmPD7kLyOq-JGWOppv0MQMXPEjSCLmVZ0DJ5YBF6q-D4vSwXpUHomS4hWkjDKL27stE7nt/s400/trunkshow_3.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546433275343812930" /></a><br />This craft life of mine isn't complete until it's jammed full. My other baby, <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">The Wunderkabinet</a> will be open during the Trunk Show so that you could get your drunken paws on some lovliness brought to Berlin from far and away.<br /><br />I had very little to do with the actual happening of City of Craft this year, but to not have my mind occupied while it happens 6 time zones to the west, saddens me to no end. That's why I've signed my sleepless self up to one more market in this markt-crazed city. Coldsnap will be sharing a space with La Bastellerie for <a href="http://www.handmade-supermarket.de/">Handmade Supermarket</a>. We'll be there on Saturday in the amazing <a href="http://www.markthalle9.de/">Markthalle</a> in Kreuzberg. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnF6tcmtIKE1OXOYU5ff8Qzmnqhz-flAqpkW_3DQadbBlG7JTKmug4uUfhwvCEEZ5AR9nWIdbiY7HbooJxiUZDwgPApnlobFFMmVETt8kWVVpURdUxM-ojPKyAKPQVz_rUx750f1kOHhC/s1600/handmadesupermarket.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnF6tcmtIKE1OXOYU5ff8Qzmnqhz-flAqpkW_3DQadbBlG7JTKmug4uUfhwvCEEZ5AR9nWIdbiY7HbooJxiUZDwgPApnlobFFMmVETt8kWVVpURdUxM-ojPKyAKPQVz_rUx750f1kOHhC/s400/handmadesupermarket.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546434014503200210" /></a><br />So, to my sisters and brothers in craft I say, here's to a liquored and restful night's sleep after your final show and/or sale. Wherever it might be.<br /><br />Oh yeah...something else piling up in my mind is posting about 3 weeks we spent in Australia and New Zealand this past October. This trip took a lot out of me and digesting it has been a struggle. It'll happen, I just need a bit more time. <br /></FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-2441684153265740212010-09-13T20:39:00.006+00:002010-09-19T16:15:07.390+00:00From the Vaterland to the Motherland<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux54_SYuuidyrHqteqTBNGMZejksV3t0tQPTx_jsT782AIRpqyIai2um-FDjlxwlxl5840I8Fsa_z771CwLwZBY7TUzYcsOvWjQu6noI33vaLl3eeoUD9HbIw8CHpUeD3vs5Sv45EB7Zp/s1600/nadjamoscow.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux54_SYuuidyrHqteqTBNGMZejksV3t0tQPTx_jsT782AIRpqyIai2um-FDjlxwlxl5840I8Fsa_z771CwLwZBY7TUzYcsOvWjQu6noI33vaLl3eeoUD9HbIw8CHpUeD3vs5Sv45EB7Zp/s400/nadjamoscow.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518638956041030962" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">photo by Olga Talalay, also pictured: Marusja in black and Bobby in green</span><br /><br /><FONT FACE="arial">It's been a week since we returned to Berlin from a 4 day trip to Russia - more accurately, we've returned from 4 days in St. Petersburg and Moscow. As much as I would really love to see a little more of that immensely vast country, it just wasn't in cards this time. It's also taken me this long to get over the trip enough to archive it here. It's just oh so amazing and just oh so exhausting.<br /><br />I really love the chaotic energy of the cities - particularly Moscow - I guess I also love that I get to leave. However, another trip east means another Russian making fun of me. Last year it was shirt I wore and this time I looked like a "math teacher from the country side"...it was super hot and super sweaty on stage and my hair (and face) is prone to do that in damp circumstances!<br /><br />I will say that I got to practice my Russian a lot on this trip and that was pretty fantastic - that's right Mom and Pop, thanks for forcing me to spend the lovely Saturday mornings of my youth in Russian school.<br /><br />Of course, a tour in Russia is not without drama, but I'd rather dwell and dream of returning sometime soon. So I'd really just like to thank Marusja for being a great friend and keeping us company in both cities; two Maxims and an Anton for feeding, housing, booking(!), chatting and setting us up with some great music; Sabine for her warm hospitality; and to super sweet and sleepy Sasha for not only putting on an amazing show, but putting us in a cab with the most amazing driver! It was terrifying trip to the airport, but thoroughly entertaining.<br /><br />Oh yes, if you want to see more pictures, click on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldsnapbindery/">THIS</a>.<br /></FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-43299935777091502282010-08-21T21:46:00.004+00:002010-08-21T22:11:23.443+00:00Slightly Terrifying, But Big...In a Little Way...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxoLp0HaYMjp3Yvg9H82Eb2xaGT-BMY_IRrtpwVO87LqtrEns3FTJc7JjxpjlKhhJVz6vZn1Cfl1F8TubvN_JE85GKC26AZi8cnClTYjfJwDgATZiTMTXk_PWx3UMMWJQkHKi-ihuaU-HJ/s1600/bottlespic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxoLp0HaYMjp3Yvg9H82Eb2xaGT-BMY_IRrtpwVO87LqtrEns3FTJc7JjxpjlKhhJVz6vZn1Cfl1F8TubvN_JE85GKC26AZi8cnClTYjfJwDgATZiTMTXk_PWx3UMMWJQkHKi-ihuaU-HJ/s400/bottlespic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507988535592807106" /></a><br /><FONT FACE="arial">Okay. So <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">The Wunderkabinet</a> has GROWN! To some of you with whom I've shared my big dream of spaces and future residencies here in Berlin, this is news of a giant step forward. Also, I'm taking this step far, far sooner than I ever intended. <br /><br />What was a neato cabinet in a neato little <a href="http://www.labastellerie.com">shop</a>, has now become a whole neato little room that I am now renting from the aforementioned shop. Legalities aside - who really knows? really(.) - The Wunderkabinet is a live and true THING!<br /><br />Initially, this was a terrifying realisation at 4am - 6 hours after the meeting. Then the sun finally rose and I remembered all the great people involved on both ends. The final list is set to break over on the kabinet's <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com/aktuelle-ausstellung-current-exhibition/">page</a> in the next week! <br /><br />Okay, so still a little terrified, but pretty darn excited too.</FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276614600749407258.post-32280886195607671032010-08-06T14:11:00.005+01:002010-08-06T21:33:28.700+01:00In the Realm of the Handmade<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzXUagGBFBIOjQF58ZntKmTGBYeudikcoVoCcnsiUSEz0kRaN-GqiKvBL-yyXJ5lTe2meou58YChRC6y83XXlwzz7BITVzaYB001aIvU76KiQ2pGTcjLzKdC3hWrZBRC9mhHu7zmIKZu8/s1600/coldsnap+july+2010+047.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzXUagGBFBIOjQF58ZntKmTGBYeudikcoVoCcnsiUSEz0kRaN-GqiKvBL-yyXJ5lTe2meou58YChRC6y83XXlwzz7BITVzaYB001aIvU76KiQ2pGTcjLzKdC3hWrZBRC9mhHu7zmIKZu8/s400/coldsnap+july+2010+047.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502287872890299746" /></a><br /><FONT FACE="arial">My life is spent floating between two worlds. There's that one where I strap on a bass - or accordian, or something else - and make (sometimes melodic) noise. Then there's the one where I run with a slightly different crowd. One where I spend hours and hours cuting, folding, and sewing hundreds of pieces of paper together making books. And one where I can't help myself but to start some new <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">thing</a>. It's in this other life where I met a photographer from Paris who sometimes lives in Berlin and happened to take a bookbinding workshop I was giving. She has a photo blog and took a few pics of the coldsnap home studio - look <a href="http://leilagarfield.tumblr.com/day/2010/07/31/">here</a>!<br /><br />I came from Toronto and a pretty darn incredible community of friends and makers so it's been an education these last weeks of how stuff works here. I think I'm pretty lucky to have found some people trying to make Berlin a great city for craft and as a result, this other life of mine is now pretty busy.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EeBk5Bi-dK0wFj1teDy54lMP2Yhi4DgFgeNLy4Ddi0lV68mLXhTEnlVKnUFOPC3G1QRsGwwRul6hxD8ar18lSSIjQigWKlgI2kiFBWUUJdsvoZ1G7XgKqDxr14p7vVQ8LarWxKOM-nKR/s1600/trunkweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EeBk5Bi-dK0wFj1teDy54lMP2Yhi4DgFgeNLy4Ddi0lV68mLXhTEnlVKnUFOPC3G1QRsGwwRul6hxD8ar18lSSIjQigWKlgI2kiFBWUUJdsvoZ1G7XgKqDxr14p7vVQ8LarWxKOM-nKR/s400/trunkweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502295188880048018" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.labastellerie.com">La Bastellerie</a> is, itself, transforming these next weeks, but in the midst of that I'll be shilling <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldsnapbindery/sets/72157624638667746/">Coldsnap wares</a> out of a trunk - as the above image suggests - at their second trunk show in the shop. For a list of other makers and more info, check out their <a href="http://labastellerie.com/blog/d-i-y-trunk-show-sommerausgabe/">blog</a>. I had a test run of selling in Berlin last weekend and I learned a lot! Enough for another post altogether.<br /><br />Also, you may have already read it here, but my aforementioned 'thing' is called <a href="http://thewunderkabinet.wordpress.com">The Wunderkabinet</a> and applications for unique handmade oddities are still being accepted for another week! <br /><br />In further calls...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/images/2010call-drawing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 474px; height: 600px;" src="http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/images/2010call-drawing.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />...my dear buddies in the <a href="http://www.cityofcraft.com">City of Craft</a> (Toronto) are accepting applications for 3! amazing exhibitionary extensions of the show. More conceptual than craft? <a href="http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/midway/call.html">Apply to the interactive Midway</a>! Are you inclined to fix what you've broken? <a href="http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/forkeeps/call.html">Apply to the exhibition on mended wares!</a> Do thoughts of money and art and survival consume you? <a href="http://www.cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/loveandmoney/call.html">Apply to the Love & Money exhibition</a>! <br /> </FONT>leah bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795811001509684272noreply@blogger.com5