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	These two pieces are a cross between paper and basketry. Both were done over forms, then removed to do the weaving. The piece on the left is hickory bark paper with hosta and daylily leaf weaving. The piece on the right is swamp thistle blossom paper with daylily leaf weaving.

		My husband, Jim Tomlinson, is a writer. And what better to give to a writer on his birthday than a writerly hat made from hickory bark paper with a hickory bark headband?

I have never been able to throw scrap handmade paper away. It's far too precious. This luminary was made entirely from scraps. A moldy pumpkin? A warped mushroom? I don't know, but it was fun.

	Two pieces made from denim rag. The piece on the left uses the waist band from the jeans that made the paper for the bottom. (Yes, the zipper does work.)


The center picture of this paper mobile does not do the piece justice, and I've never found a way to take one that does. The shots flatten the work, which loses all sense of movement. And move it does, in the slightest of breezes, with a delicate weaving and twisting that begs watching.

	This is a just for fun piece. The wasp's body is made from bleached and natural Siberian iris leaf paper, his wings from mulberry. The nest is Siberian iris paper. The block of wood onto which it is mounted came from a house that was built in 1770.

Baldfaced hornets have fascinated me ever since I found a nest as a child. When I made paper from over wintered bearded iris leaves, the pulp's gray color suggested that it was perfect for creating this nest.

At one time if you searched "baldfaced hornets nest" using Google's image search, this nest would come up. Apparently, Google has become smarter over time. It doesn't now.

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