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AMLP #242

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

When i joined the Artistamp mailing list (AML) on Yahoo, i eventually requested a mailing authority number.

Hi Judith,

Very good! Welcome to the group and thanks for coming out!!!

You are now (and forever) AMLP #242. I have added your name and address to the snail mail list and I am attaching a copy of it for you.

Looking forward to seeing some of your works, Judith.

Happy creating!

Bill Porter
The Olathe Poste
http://www.wcp-nm.com
http://www.TheOlathePoste.com

Fun with Paper & Printer

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Paper Mac’s “Make your own Mac”
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The Toy Maker’s paper toys and projects

Added 2005-08-01: Rare Animals of the World
Added 205-08-01: paper CD case

Back on the air

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Our home server (connected via DSL) has been turned on, and all booted up well. We need to move the rack shelving again and come up with a more sensible wiring plan for the office, so all is not back for good. We’ll have an outage at some point when X rewires everything.

We have almost completed relocating all of our stuff here. Our creative work is currently figuring out the new configurations of furniture and tools and stuff.

I did reflect some on our easel this morning in my digital journal:

In our old apartment we had a third “bedroom” that was a guest room/studio — except over the last six months it turned into a chaotic storeroom (as it had at other times, as well). It was too easy to shunt boxes and half completed projects into the room and close the door — blocking access to the easel and the sewing machine.

We don’t have that third room in this apartment, so the “studio” aspect will be integrated into our other rooms. The easel is now in the bedroom, where i can contemplate it in the dim morning light. Right now this experiment in acrylic painting is on it, unchanged from its August state. I probably need to buy a new palette as the previous one, while designed to keep paints fresh for beyond a week, probably doesn’t manage between August and March.

The easel itself is a wonderful thing. We bought it at a yard sale in Philly — right next door to our Cedar St apartment — for $35. There we carried it up to our attic which functioned as X’s studio until it too succumbed to the fate of being filled by stuff we needed to get out of the way.

In place, it’s over eighty inches tall — a convenient measurement because that is the height of the dark wood trim that wraps around the rooms. I don’t know what sort of wood it is; it’s stained dark and not polished or lacquered. It could easily hold a six foot high canvas if either X or i were to become interested in scale. “24″ is carved into the base support, “PAFA” into the bottom of the vertical support. It’s clearly from an art school — it looks nothing like the easels one can buy now. This morning i imagined lugging it to Antiques Road Show. Is it valuable merely for its utility? Or are there easel collectors, connoisseurs of easels?

For us, the easel will not disappear behind boxes and a closed door, again. It will greet us each morning — but how? I fear the easel and the sewing manikin (which flanks the opposite side of the window) will become clothes trees instead of tools. I hope that they will instead tempt both of us to create, that art will become a constant in our daily life.

PAFA and easels

We’re Moving!

Friday, March 12th, 2004

The photo server will be down until we move the machine to Mountain View sometime next week. Meanwhile, the server on which this blog software resides will also be moving from one host to another, in Texas.

I’ll be notifying friends of the new address, and it’s corrected at Nervousness. ATC-HUB won’t let me correct, but i wrote the list owner.

Calculation of Life

Monday, February 16th, 2004

I made this polymer clay object over four years ago — possibly eight years ago.

We’re beginning packing in preparation to move. I find this too clumsy to want to display, and decided i would throw it out after documenting it. I like the idea, but would like to execute it with a little more skill some time.

What’s up here

Monday, January 5th, 2004

I’ve been busy with the holidays, organizing my home workspace, and thinking forward to a move to Mountain View this spring. I’ve a project i’ve been working on as a gift — it should have been simple, but i made it far more complicated of course. And then the first experimental spraying with fixitive…. Well, i won’t go on.

I’ve digital photo albums I’m working on, and i completeld an article recently for Eliza Badurina’s IN(ner) Question zine. Once the zine is published, i’ll offer a copy of the article here.

Nervous!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

I’m Nervous!. And pretty boring. Hopefully i’ll make headway on unearthing my creative life this weekend. Thank you simplybooks for the second.

[EDIT -- ADDITION 2005-10-29] It seems, with nervousness back up (YaY), there’s some issue around memberships?

Survey [Maybe it should be edited...]
What i’m up to

hammerquill 10-06-2003, 07:45 PM
….. I would also like to nominate judielaine who contributed an amazingly different piece to that swap, and whose website alone ought to earn her a nomination if that were allowed…

Simplybooks: 10-20-2003, 08:01 PM
Sorry it’s taken me so long, but I would like to second the nomination of judielaine atc grey-cat.com. She participated in the Photo ATC swap that I hosted and sent in some terrific ATCs. Loved her work!

Penster 10-22-2003, 12:07 AM
Codes Emailed on October 21, 2003

fakeClonedmonkey [deleted@privacy]
bunnyriviera [deleted@privacy]
judielaine atc grey-cat.com
lemur [deleted@privacy]

Slowly coming to the surface

Sunday, October 19th, 2003

I can see the surface of the sea, a glimmering brightness, far above me. I am slowly rising from the depths and hope to be in more correspondence soon.

There were some great ATC waiting for me in the mailbox when i got home, and i have a series of photos — initially ATC, an online gallery, but it will grow into??? — i’m interested in developing….

Oh — and hammerquill nominated me for membership at nervousness. I’m trying to decide if i want to prompt someone into seconding me.

Trade List

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

I’d like

men’s neck ties for my phoenix project
(http://www.grey-cat.net/elainephotos/Phoenix/page%201.shtml)
paper or fabric with William Morris/Liberty of London/Art Nouveau/intricate floral or paisley prints
any spare dip pin nibs you never use
Old oil pastels, tubes of water color or gouache
images of grey cats

I offer

Pumpkin Masters Vol 10 Pumpkin Carving Kit (3 oz)
2 oz of blue: postcards, clippings from magazines in 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 envelope
2 oz of purples and florals: greeting cards and clippings in 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 envelope
2 oz of warm tones and vegetative textures: magazine clippings in 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 envelope
Broderbund’s printshop select version 15 for Windows (a reward from HP, received in August 2003) (1.2 oz)

Post to Nervousness

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

name: Judith Elaine Bush
age: 35
country: USA

themes you like:
abstract expressionistic experiments with color, drawings of symbols or symbolic/
archtypical objects, landscape photographs, photographs of cats and other animals
(I’d love to photograph more birds), maps, architectural drawings, interlace designs

LMAOs you are interested in:
Currently a newbie with ATCs. I’m curious about the other forms as well. I’ve made
greeting cards and stationary for my own use and as gifts for years.

Do you make/do…

ATCs:
Yes! The rest i’m curious about.
Decos:
Slams:
Journals:

Other art you do:
In the past: various fimo constructions, much photography, calligraphy, sewing,
some paper making
Currently: experimenting with acrylic painting after a remarkable outcome when
painting a cabinet. A fabric sculpture/costume for a performance piece. Dabble in
poetry. Ongoing photography. Beginning to experiment with book arts.

Other land mail art sites you’ve contributed to:
ATC-hub

How long have you kept your eye on sign-ups?:
I’ve poked about in the forums for a few weekends now. I’m just signing up for trades
in ATC-hub. I can’t say that i’ve been observing the sign-ups.

What makes you want to join Nness?:
I am thrilled with my recent creativity. Nervousness seems like a place where i can
nurture this explosion and, instead of having it fade, develop it into a sustainable part
of my life.

Any questions you have:
I’m a bit frightened by the volume and have no idea how amatures keep up with this
place.

Your website:

http://wwww.grey-cat.com/ATC

Your email address:
ATC at grey dash cat dot com