Kura Scrapbook Hangout w/ cards & letters
Adding recent postcards, cards and letters to an “accordion” style scrapbook with various tapes and stamps in kura barn studio […]
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Craft Sessions
Dim Sum: Ambient Sortganizing in the kura barn studio #video
Absolutely Nothing of interest, just tidying up – like Japan’s version of Marie Kondo – in the “Giggling Piglet Studio
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DIY: Hemp curtain , part 2 (with tatami cloth)
Going to try to make the hemp curtain for the back door this afternoon. What do you think for the
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Improving Campsite
DIY: Birdhouse (vacancy, no application needed)
Made a birdhouse from some scraps of wood, noting birds don’t care about “perfection“ (and fun to make while they’re
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Tsuchida Station: Sign Post project (fun with cartography)
Blurb: Now that the major parts of our renovation(s) are done and we settled in, turning our attention to “improving
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Nengajyo / New Year’s Card 2022 – Adapters Ahoy!
Sharp peekers maybe caught the preview in “Post’d: New Years “nengajyo” in process” and now fresh from various post office
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Post’d: New Years “nengajyo” in process
Bought all of the 70¥ stamps the post office had – every single one. Took off the jacket and scarf
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“Scrapbooks, Storyboards & Postal Goods” workshop and story
Blurb: An arts and crafts hang-out workshop riff in a not-so-secret barn studio in provincial Japan sharing favorite tools and
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Diary: DIY Firestarters, Vinegar, side cart… (+ usual supplements and hospital)
What follows are simply sundry odds and ends from mostly late Nov, (bit of early Dec). 2021 with an emphasis
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Hey Cam, its your 50th birthday
My pal Cameron Uganec of Lynn Valley hit 50 so i made a spoken-song-arts-and-crafts-thing / its not long because he suggests “brevity
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Post’d: Sometimes, 2nd Circumnavigations are needed
Sometimes the letters come back – due to an errant digit or NATA or maybe just want another circumnavigation /
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Pink Phone Generational Flashbacks (& Forwards)
From the front porch of the kura studio with cicadas chirping on a sunny day in Okayama come riffs and
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Post’d: new inky stamp & postcard designs
A few new inky stamps, a load of new postcard designs, an air-conditioned barn and all the records I need
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Passports to Nowhere (for someone else)
I’ve started modifying old passports with ink, stamps, ink stamps, fake maps & assumed espionage… this means late night eBay
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Post’d: Letters + Stamping (& sending/receiving round-up)
The last few weeks have seen busy-ness with the construction, wedding anniversary, wife’s birthday, Golden Week projects, a crash day,
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Suez Panoramas, Global Postcards & Fungible Shiba Inu stamp
Arts and crafts update from the Kura barn with recent dossiers of various mixed media projects including: Suez Canal panoramas,
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