This is the story of a dog who hops in the car with her owner and must guess where they are headed. Dogs, much like babies, are so trusting when they get in the car. Who knows where they’ll end up!?

Sometimes I start a project with a clear vision of the final product. Sometimes I start a project with no clue where I’m headed. These pages fall into the latter category.

I’m a member of Libros: New Mexico Book Arts Guild (www.librosnm.org) and each year our members create a book that is a collaboration of art that we trade with one another. The 2025 project followed the theme “Rag Tag.”

Over the past month I’ve made a great deal of book cloth. The process takes time but isn’t terribly hard to do. Now I am ready to make books and boxes all winter.

The opening of our show “Anything Goes” went quite well. My son was able to join me and was kind enough to take this photo. The exhibit will be up until July 13th.

There are some incredible artists involved in this show. I will be at the opening as well as gallery-sitting with my husband on the final day of the show. I hope to see you there!

Today I learned four new binding techniques that don’t involve using any glue.

My friend Cate made me aware of this product described as “kraft paper fabric.” It’s an odd and wildly versatile product. I used it for the cover of this book.

To create the cover design I used acrylic paints, stencils, and some foam stamps. Then I stitched in the signatures (pages) using a chain stitch. That was a new technique for me. Clearly. ha ha