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Oregon
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09.08.09{Field Trip!} Honkin’ Huge FlowersThis Labor Day we piled into the car, along with our friend Bryan (check out his beautiful new photoblog, by the way) and went down to Sarah's hometown of Canby to check out one of the cooler annual events in this area--the Swan Island Dahlia Festival. (Locals: Even though the festival is technically over, you can still visit the flowers for a few more weeks--actually, it's kind of more fun when it's not the official festival. If you go, the Canby Burgerville is one of the best. Just sayin'...) It's simply acres and acres of dahlias of all sizes, shapes ...
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06.26.09Letterpress Project PreviewAs I mentioned in my last post, I didn't get a chance to finish up my project during our letterpress seminar last week. But I did go back on Monday and work on the fronts a bit. This it half of my postcard project. I haven't printed any of the other side yet. I think I mentioned this before, but this project is inspired by a couple of my favorite Portland-y things--the Steel Bridge and the Loretta Lynn-Jack White song, Portland, Oregon. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Photo (c)2006 by Andrew Hall, PortlandBridges.com"][/caption] I created the letterpress using three different techniques, which always ...
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05.02.09Summer of Making Registration + Denyse Schmidt Awesomeness!Hi folks! Registration is now open for the incredible Summer of Making program that the Pacific Northwest College of Art's awesome Continuing Education department is coordinating this summer. These are unique courses, offered in more comprehensive formats than you usually get the opportunity with in craft and DIY courses. The classes run for longer--so you really will get to know the subject matter in a thorough way. I can speak from experience--I came away from my letterpress class (which I'm going to write about soon, but I got a bit derailed by my overly-ambitious project) really feeling confident in that ...
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03.30.09Garden Dreams[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Some of last year's bounty. Those beans were so, so, so good--an heirloom mix of bush beans that were almost leggy enough to be pole beans. Very sweet and crisp."][/caption] We've still been sick around here. Between the two of us, there hasn't been a single healthy day in all of March. Pretty crummy, huh? We've been keeping thoughts of warmer weather and less sickness alive in our hearts, though, by dreaming about this year's vegetable garden. We plant an organic vegetable garden every year. In fact, we have gardened together since 2001, when we had a plot ...
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08.08.08Field Trip: A Hood River SurpriseWe really like the Columbia River Gorge town of Hood River. Not only is it beautiful, scenic and home to very cool action sports like kiteboarding and windsurfing, it's also home to both Full Sail Brewing (Session seems to have become our "house beer" lately) and Tofurky (don't knock it 'til you've tried it - the soy Italian sausage is really good!). You can't beat that! We, along with Sarah's mom, went out there for lunch this week and after lunch walked around the town. In a window of a shop called Parts + Labour, we spotted this: That vine of flowers ...
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07.14.08A Day at the BeachWe're lucky here in Oregon to have wonderful beaches---and every last one of them are public, thanks to the 1967 Oregon Beach Bill (learn more on this site from an episode of The Oregon Experience). We haven't been to the beach since last fall because it's gotten just so expensive to drive the eighty or so miles over the mountains to the coast. But, we make the trek to Cannon Beach today---and oh was it worth it! We couldn't resist taking a few pictures so we'd have an excuse to post beach photos here on Sewer-Sewist... (Josh wearing his Sewer-Sewist ...
