I just recently got the Howard Jones 12" for Things Can Only Get Better and was pleased to find WIL on there, too; which I had never heard before. TCOGB edges it out, imo, but it’s a close race.
also have 12s for Fascination (i believe I have doubles of it, I need to work out some kind of routine for them) and Blue Monday (the giant floppy disc cover)
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Things Can Only Get Better is 1985, two years away, but don’t worry it’s coming up.
The floppy disk Blue Monday 12” was the best selling 12” single of all time but ironically it lost Factory Records money because the packaging was so expensive to produce.
In Shaun of Dead Ed immediately hurls it at the zombies while Shaun yells “Wait wait!”
Shaun: That was an original pressing!
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The letter carrier brought a new treasure today!
@KeybillyJefe, Is this the Papiermeister’s muse, enemy, or both? Whichever, she’s lovely!
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there’s the tricky part, yeah?
careful, detailed - even lovingly produced portraits of the creatures i claim to detest…
and then there’s me, running around the islands - camera clicking like some touron what’s never seen wild fowl - trying to catch a pose, an attitude, a menace, to reference the etching on a plate to make these prints.
¿por que no los dos?
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LOVE th’ Art Nouveau flourishes. I’m a big fan of lines what ain’t straight and/or do interesting things.
Shoot, even my fave dictionary is Art Nouveau/Arts and Crafts !!!
{I do ahem highly recco it, not just for its decorative value, if a copy can be had.
One of the reviewers pretty much said it was the only one worth buying until the grand Oxford English Dictionary was finally published.
I think I’ve only stumped it once or twice, and we’d had a copy since my age was in smol single digits, so prolly 50+ years.
When copies actually have a date, it’s illegible; around the turn of the last century, at any rate. Dammit, there goes the poetry again! Sorry.}
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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the painter, mason, and countertop guys all finished. we put on the handles and straightened all the margins on the doors that were taken off to be painted. and wrestled the trash compactor into place, which was particularly obstinate.
so it’s completely finished except the pantry needs to be painted.
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It looked so much prettier without the boring paint. 
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Who gets to peel the plastic off the appliances? 
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Gorgeous!
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/looks at these images
/thinks about our kitchen and its 2 sq ft of usable counter space and pathetic number of cabinets
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today in Papiermeister’s workshop: bookbinding 101
sewing up the last five copies of Street Chickens of Key Largo, before jumping into Street Chickens Volume II that i will spend most of this year working on.
while i do find bookbinding an enjoyable meditation, it is my least favorite part of the process. a bit tedious, and i always end up sticking myself with the sewing needle.
there are a couple more post cards ready to mail, but i will be taking a break from the monthly mailings to work on this new book and one other - a collaboration for a one-off art book for an exhibition.
also, grouper and hogfish season are open now, and there will be days of fishing in the coming weeks.
not to worry, the cards will keep coming, albeit irregularly timed.
thanks to everyone for staying with me!
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My wife eanted a dark wood cake stand “like one i found on Etsy.” I replied, “Have you met me?”
Since i am up to my neck in the walnut tree that fell last summer, i used that and Bob’s your uncle!
(Not sure why that bottom pic looks crooked. It really is level!)
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It’s beautiful !!! I bet it kicks the arse of “the one on etsy!”
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So beautiful! You guys do such fantastic work. 
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You did such a great job. I agree with @MerelyGifted; it’s probably nicer than anything she would have found on Etsy.
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That’s so weird. I was thinking about this the other day. My parents have a treadmill they don’t use because the frame is broken. I was thinking about how to turn it into a giant belt sander!
The other thing I was thinking about was turning a random orbital sander from a hand tool to a bench tool. I often work with small wooden pieces that would be much easier to handle if the sander was in a fixed location and the pieces held against it. This is for finish sanding where a belt sander is too rough.
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That looks really scary. I think he should be using leather gloves at least.
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