Exciting development
Mar. 19th, 2022 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotMom came over to go out to lunch with me (I hope she keeps this up in the summer, we have street fairs on Saturdays and it's so fun to be there) and after we ate, we went to the Artisans' Guild. We do that a lot, Mom used to show her pottery at craft fairs and now she's really into silversmithing, so it's just ... the kind of place we like to browse.
We were looking at one particular artist's work and talking about how nice it was when the woman at the register said, "Oh, she's in the back! Let me get her," and did so. It was a little bit awkward at first because we knew we weren't buying anything, but she was really just happy to talk about how she decoupages and the papers she likes, and eventually Mom told her that I do bookbinding and she asked me to show her some photos of my work. And she really wants me to apply to sell books at the Guild!
I was a bit awkward because she wanted to know what I bind and I was like " ... uh, books from the internet," which makes no sense but she didn't question it. I decided this would be a great opportunity to use the too-small pre-cut board Mom gave me when I started doing this, and then went to Office Max to get them to cut a ream of copy paper to the right size (10.5x7). I've also designed a few title pages for blank books so that there's something interesting inside rather than just blankness - one has an Aubrey Beardsley border and then an Arts & Crafts font with "This Book Belongeth to" inside it.
You do have to pay a fee for the space and work 4 hrs a month there, but I think it'll be a fun experiment and a nice group of people to be involved with, especially good since I no longer have Orpheus Theatre (although they are guaranteed to all be older - she was very pleased at the idea of getting a millennial in).
We were looking at one particular artist's work and talking about how nice it was when the woman at the register said, "Oh, she's in the back! Let me get her," and did so. It was a little bit awkward at first because we knew we weren't buying anything, but she was really just happy to talk about how she decoupages and the papers she likes, and eventually Mom told her that I do bookbinding and she asked me to show her some photos of my work. And she really wants me to apply to sell books at the Guild!
I was a bit awkward because she wanted to know what I bind and I was like " ... uh, books from the internet," which makes no sense but she didn't question it. I decided this would be a great opportunity to use the too-small pre-cut board Mom gave me when I started doing this, and then went to Office Max to get them to cut a ream of copy paper to the right size (10.5x7). I've also designed a few title pages for blank books so that there's something interesting inside rather than just blankness - one has an Aubrey Beardsley border and then an Arts & Crafts font with "This Book Belongeth to" inside it.
You do have to pay a fee for the space and work 4 hrs a month there, but I think it'll be a fun experiment and a nice group of people to be involved with, especially good since I no longer have Orpheus Theatre (although they are guaranteed to all be older - she was very pleased at the idea of getting a millennial in).
