The Sunday Paper #504 April 14, 2024 I love discovering new papers – I purchased these lovely sheets (these are detail shots) at The Paper Place in Toronto. The birds and butterflies are cut out of papers printed with different patterns, and the shapes are machine stitched through the center onto natural colored base sheets. So interesting! ——————————————————————————————––––––– I first met Bea Nettles when we were both teaching at the Women’s Studio Workshop and shared an apartment many moons ago. The Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, recently acquired more than 50 p ..read more

The Sunday Paper #503 April 7, 2024 I’m flying home from Toronto today, where I spent a couple of days with my childhood friends Alicia & Sharon (we celebrated meeting 50 years ago)! Of course, I had to make a couple of paper stops, and one of those was serendipitous. Remember my giveaway for the 500th blog post? Two of the winners, Paula and Vicki, both live in Toronto, so I met up with them near our airbnb, to hand deliver copies of The Art of Papercraft. ——————————————————————————————––––––– Clockwise from top left: we three amigos, The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library has an ..read more

The Sunday Paper #502 March 31, 2024 Thanks to all who entered the giveaway to celebrate 500 Sunday Paper blog posts. Here are the lucky winners: Christina Little, Paula Hartmann, Linda Farrelly, Claire Marcus, and Vicki N. All five of them will receive a copy of my book, The Art of Papercraft. (Winners: please reply to my e-mail if you haven’t already with your snail mail address). A big THANKS to all of you, dear readers, for subscribing to The Sunday Paper and sharing paper stories with me! ——————————————————————————————––––––– I had fun teaching the Interactive Eclipse Card worksho ..read more

The Sunday Paper #501 March 24, 2024 Thanks for all of your comments about post #500 last week! I love this paper community – enjoy these limericks from Chuck Crockford,  a reader and supporter of this blog, as well as a member of The Paper Year. He wrote the limerick on the left for issue #100 and the one on the right just last week. Thanks, Chuck! As I mentioned last week, in celebration of 500 Sunday Paper blog posts, I’m doing a GIVEAWAY – 5 lucky winners will receive a copy of my book, The Art of Papercraft. Enter to win by telling me one thing you like most about The Su ..read more

The Sunday Paper #500 March 17, 2024 Today’s blog post is a bit different, because we are celebrating the 500th edition of The Sunday Paper! Keep reading to find out about a giveaway and some fun facts about this blog. But first, an invitation: I’m excited to be hosting a one-hour FREE Zoom workshop on Friday, March 29th at noon MST (Denver). In honor of the solar eclipse (which will occur on April 8th) we’ll be creating this Interactive Eclipse Card. Join me and make your own card, and then spin the wheel of the volvelle (one of the oldest forms of moveables) and illuminate the moon phases (a ..read more

The Sunday Paper #499 March 10, 2024 I had the pleasure of interviewing Goran Konjevod on Paper Talk. Konjevod grew up in Croatia, where he studied mathematics and computer science. After completing his graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon, he worked as professor of computer science at Arizona State University from 2000 until 2010, when he moved to California where he is now based in Livermore. Konjevod started designing origami sculptures in 2005 after folding examples from books for a long time. He has been trying to develop new approaches to folding paper and other sheet materials, using mos ..read more

The Sunday Paper #497 February 25, 2024 Triaxial weaving is a brain bender! It took me a long time to muster up the courage to try it, and even longer to get it down. Now I show participants in my Weave Through Winter online class how I’ve learned to do it. But my method isn’t foolproof! Teaching this has taught me (again) that there are many ways to teach and many ways to learn. Some course participants don’t even attempt this; others try and give up; and others take it to levels that are above and beyond my own attempts. I love that! ——————————————————————————————––––––– There are only two ..read more

The Sunday Paper #496 February 18, 2024 I mentioned last week that I’ll be traveling to Tasmania in September in conjunction with Paper on Skin, a wearable paper art fashion show. I was going to share the registration link today for the workshops I’m teaching there, but they sold out quickly. I do have two spots left in my Red Cliff Paper Retreat if you’d like to come to my Colorado studio in August. We will be exploring a variety of ways to work with paper + thread. ——————————————————————————————––––––– I had the pleasure of interviewing Melanie Mowinski on Paper Talk. Mowinski likes paper, b ..read more

The Sunday Paper #495 February 11, 2024 I used to travel several times a year prior to the pandemic, and things are ramping up again, and my travels are getting more far flung. How is it that I get to make three international trips in 2024? It began with our ski vacation in Europe last month (for those of you who were following along, my knees are much better). In June, I’m taking a group on a 12-day Japan Paper Tour (I traveled to Japan with Ted back in 2019 when our son was doing a semester abroad. We had several paper excursions, which I blogged about, and I mentioned that I might lead a to ..read more

The Sunday Paper #494 February 4, 2024 February is a fun month for me – what a treat it is to have guide Weave Through Winter online class participants through a month of paper weaving while weaving along with them. It is hard to put into words, but suffice it to say that it is a (good) challenge, I learn a ton, and I am continually inspired to try new things and share them with the group. This year is extra special, because I am hyper focused on my next how-to book (working title: A Paper Waving Journey) which is based on this course. Check out the hashtag #weavethroughwinter to see what has ..read more