fanciful devices

This collection of images is the commercial work of Alexander Anderson.

You know how sometimes you find things by just clicking one link after anther until you can't remember how you even got there? Well, my journey started in the brand-new updated link list on Sparrow's blog. 

Which is also how I happened upon this lovely mixed paper journal I'd hate to alter in any way.

It's been just 1 day away from my studio and I'm having withdrawal. I did manage to sneak in several times, and to bring some pyrite and random things downstairs to wire together while my folks and my in-laws were chatting. They're so quiet compared to us. We in my family are perhaps a very cultured version of your Jersey-Shore Italians. I hate to say it. Mind you, we certainly don't look or live like them, but we all start yelling at each other all at once for any little thing. Then 1 minute later it's over and everything's fine. But it's embarrassing around such sweet, simple people as my Southern  relatives. They'd never do that in a million years. Everyone yelling at once because they all have a different version of some anecdote....