News

News
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...and a blurry picture! (All the pictures we take seem to be coming out a little blurry lately.) Featured here are my new book, The Bread Builders, my new mug and some new bread! The book is really fascinating, it talks not only about masonry ovens and how they're built but also about how bread is made - not recipes so much as the mystery of baker's percentages. Between the chapters are little profiles of bakeries, like American Flatbread or the Cheeseboard and it's exciting to know what and where they're talking about. I'm just about to start the section on baker's percentages. Eee!

We picked six ears of corn from the garden last night and eagerly set some water boiling. George shucked them and we were pleasantly surprised to find they hadn't been ravaged by various bugs. We were not pleasantly surprised when we finally got to sink our teeth into it and it was ... kind of mushy, sticking to our teeth, and a little flavorless. Did we pick it too soon? Too late? What happened, corn?

Luckily we had some other dinner to fall back on. This leads me to my actual news which is that I've started up a second blog! It's really going to be all about food! I invite you all to head on over to Pétit Déjournal and read about my new project: Food Day. (At least that's what I'm calling it until something more elegant comes along.) Bicycats will continue and will still just be about what's happening with our riveting lives and how cute our cats are.

A new beginning

When I decided to name my little book business "A Little Forgery" it was clearly not a keeper - we were getting ready to do the Big Crafty and I needed something to call it.  Few people actually get "forgery" as in "copy", which is fine because it's a bit of stretch and a bit of a mouthful.  Therefore, I've renamed it Bissy Bindery.  I know, "what's the 'bissy' all about?"  Bissy is a word that Liz introduced me to, it's a neat cross of bitch and sissy, and more and more I find I really identify with it.  Sometimes we also use it to refer to our car.  Here in Asheville you can find my earrings and mini books at the Flood Gallery shop in the Phil Mechanic Building and at Short Street Cakes.  Out there in the rest of the world you can find some things at the new Bissy Bindery Etsy shop!

I've put up a picture of our corn and beans on Flickr - any idea what's eating them, moms?  Any suggestions on how to stop it?

Fauxskine

Fauxskine
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I don't usually use any of the blank books I make, it's akin to not really eating after making a gigantic meal. There's something in the effort that says, "this is for other people." I haven't been able to find a new sketchbook since coming to Asheville so I decided to try and make something for myself. After a lot of debate, laziness, and "meh"ing I whipped up: the Fauxskine. What makes it not a Moleskine is it's lack of page marker, lack of pocket in the back, cloth cover instead of leathery cover, and it's got grommets.