Life Hack Tips
A life hack is someone who develops shortcuts to daily living for personal pleasure and often money saving reasons. Here are some tips to make this busy season a little easier, and then some art papers to make you drool.
Want to upgrade your computer and don’t know how to wipe information from the old one?
This article in the AARP magazine: Upgrading or Disposing of Old PCs will help.
Make your own books? Want an easy way to bind them? Think about the zutter. It’s not stitched binding, but for putting together pages to form a book, it’s an easy solution.
Think you’ve read this article before? Not here. Maybe it’s just deja-vu.
Galen Berry makes the most amazing marbled papers. Worth looking at, maybe even framing.
Handmade papers from all over the world. By country. Amazing papers.
Unusual quotes from unlikely sources. The link takes you to Stephen King’s quotes.
–Quinn McDonald is a writer and artist. See her work at QuinnCreative.com
Marbled papers like those in your link always make me think of the books from my grandparents’ house, which had wonderful marbled endpapers.
—I love marbled papers. I used to make them and while it’s exacting and demanding, I love other people’s work. And I love the wave effect. It’s on the cover of a book called Shadow of the Wind, and while it’s printed, it looks real.
–Q
shewolfy728
December 20, 2007
I’ve been lucky enough to take a class with Galen Berry (one of our local artists here in Oklahoma); he learned some of his work from Peggy Skycraft, who is another marbler (and she has a DVD available that teaches you how to do the work yourself at home: it’s worth the price just to watch her at work!). It’s amazingly easy to do and just mesmerizing to watch. The difficulty comes from being able to repeat the ‘one off’ design (a skill only an advanced marbler can accomplish). Both Peggy and Galen are masters, and their papers are absolutely gorgeous, said the person with a lovely stash well hidden!
Jan Bryant
January 2, 2008