Posts tagged security envelopes
e’re participating in Chicago Zine Fest in March and in addition to making some how-to zines with some friends I’m also working on these bookmarks made from security envelopes. These are made from a bunch of different envelopes pieced together and sewn with red thread.
By the way, I also started reading this book about pigeons that Bill and I got as a wedding gift. We had read a few pages of it together on our honeymoon and then got busy and put it down. It is fascinating, but also kind of hard to read from a vegan perspective: there’s a lot of talk of killing, eating, using, and abusing pigeons. But in the end I’m trying to focus on the fascinating story of human’s relationship with this beautiful animal. I have 2 pigeons beaking (the beginning part of their mating process) tattooed on my chest, and have long been fascinated with the beautiful aspects of these “rats of the sky” as they are often referred to in large cities like Chicago. I’m only a couple chapters in but so far it is an extremely interesting read.
art of what I’ve been working on during my vacation from work is filing a gazillion papers that we’ve had laying around in a pile for years. I keep putting it off because its a lot of work and super tedious. But THEN I had the brilliant idea to set aside the security envelopes for a project and suddenly going through papers became fun! I was excited to find the next envelope with the next pattern and anxious to know whether it would be different than the last. Unfortunately now that the excitement of the envelopes is over I still have to actually file the papers…
