Wow. It’s the first day of my 69th year.,…and I was just getting used to 68! Yay Cubs and yay Sox. I’m so looking forward to tonight’s game, Cubs against Dodgers.
At the health club in conversation with Liz, she suggested that that $700 billion bailout should be given to the tax payer to spend instead of to the failing corporations. After thinking about that for awhile I suggested if money was to be given out it should be in vouchers not dollars. The voucher could only be used to cover current debt up to the amount it was decided each taxpayer should get. The real problem was credit. For many the money is already spent running up huge credit debt that they simply can’t pay back. Paying debts would open up lines of credit which are currently tight if not impossible to get. Lou’s comment was “that’s why Liz is a great personal trainer and I am an artist and Lou is the economist. (Once a banker always a banker) Personally I don’t think Liz and my “solution” would work either, but I still think we should run for office. (and I’d rather my economics professor cousin didn’t read this).
Back to altered books. Of the remaining pages in the book, each 2 were glued together so that the remaining pages were actually 2 pages glued together and thus thicker. I used pictures and music for “Sloop John B”, made double doors which open to a print of Hokusai’s “Great Wave”, and made a thicker page of 4 shallow boxes to hold samples of knots. (see techniques) My next plan is to make another, deeper, shelf for artifacts picked up during our walks on the beach. And then close out the book with a page of pockets filled with instructions for the techniques used in the book and an index. You can go to “techniques” for more detail of my methods, and if I ever learn how Ruthe got the current pictures into my blog, I’ll attempt to include some of the finished book.
