(hand dyed paper, mulberry paper, graph paper, glassine envelopes from old razorblades, thread, pencil)

I use old fashioned razorblades in a part of my leather paring process, and those blades come in these tiny glassine paper covers (and blue paper covers too! I have those safely stored somewhere just like I had these). Over the years I've saved most of them for "art projects", not knowing what exactly one can do with those things anyway. But now I can tell you that one can write silly love poems on pieces of graph paper and then sew the little envelopes shut so that no one will ever know what really happened. (Well, I can tell you that someone had very, very open arms that were stretched long by the years of carrying heavy buckets. That's what happened. To whom, I don't know.)