I've been working on designing some classes for FabMo while here in Carmel. The new location in Sunnyvale isn't great for paper crafting classes as there isn't a lot of open space. I will do my iris folding cards but I would like to do some book binding classes. This spiral bond book binding machine was at one of the thrift stores. It had no price so they had to get someone from the back room. Now I already have one of these machines at home and I really don't need two. The only reason I even thought about getting it was for my future classes to speed things along. She asked me what I would offer and I said $5. Told her I already had one (it was given to me) and this would be a back up, plus it's not something that would sell fast if at all. She said how about $10? I said I would pass as I really don't need it. We settled on $6.
The pressure to design some classes using this machine is on!
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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