Ep. 260: Ms Romo and a Video

Bookbinder of the Week:

Adela Yustas Romo is a Spanish paper artist/marbler available on Facebook and, perhaps Pinterst. She is creative, has an interest in Japanese design such as suminagashi, Turkish/Cnetral Asian erbu and creates a wide variety of paper suitable for either covers, endpapers, or decorative designs.

Bookbinding

This week I made another small sketch book. A6 (105x150 mm or 4" x 6" for our American brethren) in size with 64 pages or four signatures of four folios each.

The cover is made of thick paper which matches the fake headbands in color. I placed a bit of scrap construction paper to indicate the front and trimmed everything off nicely. 

I also made a video of me making it here: Compendium Sketch Book.

Fiction

Last week I worked – again – on Growing Slurry but I did not finish it as I had hoped. Primarily because I didn’t put my butt on the chair and do it; I got distracted by ill relatives. Yes, plural. Another one was rushed to the hospital with a serious non-coved 19 problem. They may be out of the woods, but no one is certain.

But I worked on both the final chapter and what looks to be working out to be the penultimate chapter. I will not promise to finish it these week but I will allow as how when I do finish it, my faithful audience will be given a chance to read it.

Coming Soon! (I hope): Growing Slurry!

Plot & Characters 

Two people meet in a coffee shop but neither of them are as they appear. Sliven, dressed as a homeless creature, helps people in trouble. Gina, for all outward appearances seems to be a company employee has a hidden past frought with violence and survival.

During the course of an afternoon, they talk. They remember. They let us know more about their past.

Video of the Making of Compendium of Outlines & Art, a sketch book.