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Jan. 9, 2009
Experimenting with Handmade Paper

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We're still slowly getting back into the normal routine of school and it hasn't helped that K has come down with an awful cold. Yesterday he was so wiped out that we had to cancel any lessons that I had planned so that I could make him endless cups of lemon & honey tea :) Today though he seemed to be a little bit perkier so we decided to try our hand at making some handmade paper! Talk about fun :) We rounded up scrap computer paper that was in the recycle pile, leftover chunks of construction paper from art projects, newspapers and then started to cut them into small pieces for blending. Our instructions said that we needed a screen, which I didn't have, so I fashioned one out of a cookie rack and cheesecloth *grin*. It worked out really great. We whizzed up our paper pulp, caught it on our screen and our pieces of paper are now drying by the fire :)

We did learn something about pulping up newspaper.... it isn't a very nice color. It turns a dark shade of gray and we actually didn't use it since it would have made our paper an unattractive color. The computer paper and construction paper blended into a nice light brown, and I guess in order to have a cream colored paper like I see quite often for handmade papers, you would have to use mainly white colored paper only. Oh well, trial and error :) Can't wait to see how it looks tomorrow and if it will come off of the tea towel it is temporarily stuck to *grin*.

Blessings,

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Posted by Daisy

What a fun project! I'm looking forward to seeing the results.

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Posted by Molytail

Oh cool - be sure to show us how it turns out!

Hope the cold leaves - those are no fun...

I tagged ya for an award on my blog :-D

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