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Checking it out…

Posted in Trees, tagged , , , on March 28, 2013| 1 Comment »

IMG_0159Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

 

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Posted in Trees, tagged , , on March 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

IMG_0154Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

 

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Papermaking in Portland OR

Posted in Art, Paper-making, Trees, tagged , , , , on March 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

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Four calligraphers got together to make paper–three for the first time.  We used embroidery hoop molds, as well as small and large rectangular molds.  We each brought our own pulp and shared and combined.  The brown you see in the pictures is exotic wood shavings (Wenge etc.) with kraft paper. The maroon was a surprise: brown packaging paper, construction paper, colored streamers and white copy paper.  The white was from paper made from kozo and banana, and scraps of calligraphy quality paper.  Diane Flack does bookbinding, so she brought ribbon to put in the middle between two pieces of paper–the end result is something that can be folded and tied like a book cover.  Great fun as well as a lot of paper made by Diane, Kay Hilt, Rachel Bancroft and Marianne Nelson.
Photos and story by Marianne Nelson

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Paper press…

Posted in Art, Paper-making, tagged , , , , , , , on March 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

New meaning to the words “weight-bearing”.

IMG_1258Photo by Pamela Paulsrud at the Chicago Botanic Garden Papermaking Event

 

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The pure fun of paper-making!

Posted in Art, Paper-making, tagged , , , , , on March 13, 2013| 2 Comments »

IMG_1248Photo by Pamela Paulsrud at the Chicago Botanic Garden

 

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Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest | MNN – Mother Nature Network

Posted in Art on March 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest | MNN – Mother Nature Network.

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Who remembers the joy of making that first piece of paper?

Posted in Art, Paper-making, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2013| 1 Comment »

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Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

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What are these called again?

Posted in Art, Paper-making, Stories, tagged , , on March 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

While papermaking at the Chicago Botanic Garden we explored several ways of drying paper…IMG_1274Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

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Posted in Trees, tagged , , on March 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

IMG_9064Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

 

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First time papermakers at the Chicago Botanic Gardens!

Posted in Art, Paper-making, tagged , , , on March 9, 2013| 1 Comment »

Needless to say, we had lots of fun and quite a few “Wow” moments!

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100,000 Pine Tree seed papers have been distributed to school children in Municipality of Kağıthane Belediyesi!

Posted in Art, Paper-making, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , on March 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I had the distinct honor of connecting with Oguzhan Tugrul on Facebook pages and wanted to share his notable mission and project.
He initially wrote, “Our project is converting recycled paper into trees with the help of tree seed papers. The mayor wants to give each student in the municipality a small flower pot with tree seed paper (fifty thousand students !! only me and my wife we are making the seed papers).”
50,000 notable, right?!
Now, I just found out that 100,000 Pine Tree seed papers have been distributed to school children in Municipality of Kağıthane Belediyesi!
 Congratulations!!! This initiative is to be commended—bringing together  and supporting the community while restoring a traditional craft and planting trees. Beautiful.
More from Oguzhan Tugrul below:

We are determined to erase the carbon print of our neighborhood,
with its Sadabad Palace and Hasbahçe gardens Kağıthane is the lung of Istanbul

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Mayor of Kağithane Belediyesi Municipality Mr Fazlı Kılıç,as part of ecological developement project giving school children tree seed paper as an opportunity to erase local carbon print — at Kagithane Belediyesi:).

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Posted in Trees, tagged , , on March 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

IMG_1168Photo by Pamela Paulsrud

 

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Our walk at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge

Posted in Stories, Trees, tagged , , on March 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We saw this on our walk at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge along the Willamette near our house (not too far from Reed–take Woodstock straight west and you’d end up here).  We always look at snags to see who might be liviing there.  First I spotted this hole, which is bird shaped.  Then I saw the fresh moss carpeting.  I could imagine an owl in there (we had seen a little screech owl in a nearby tree – I’ve attached that picture too, so you can see how well camoflouged he is).  This would is a perfect home for some critter–I am sure if we set a time-lapse camera there we would find out who.

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Contributed by Marianne Nelson 

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