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I restored a missing spine and reinforced torn corners on this 1956 edition of Taro Yashima's Crow Boy.

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Less-visible mending (repairs after 1 wash)

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Visible Mending

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Painted Pumpkin 🎃

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4x4" handmade book featuring California bush sunflower, gray gnatcatcher, California sage brush (“cowboy cologne”). Interior images are cut tissue paper.

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Leather-Soled Slippers

I bought these slippers in a grocery store about two years ago. The soles eventually began to disintegrate, so I opted to replace them with thick scrap leather.

After conditioning the leather with Hubert's, I used polyester upholstery thread to secure the soles to the slippers before sewing over with decorative cotton thread. I'm happy to have extended the functional life of the slippers and learned a bit about working with thick leather.

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Cedar Trunk

The trunk's lid had separated along a crack, so I drilled small holes into each side of the separation and rejoined them with dowels.

Three of the four legs were lightly damaged, but one had already begun to pull nails through the trunk's base. I removed more than 50 nail gun nails from this trunk, none of which were original.

I used a hard wax finish for the trunk after sanding and conditioning. The previous owner had drilled raw holes entirely through the base to house bolts of the previous feet. To avoid further compromising the wood, I drilled holes into a supporting plank and inserted housing for the bolt, both in the new feet and in the new plank. The planks are each attached to the base with four narrow moulding/trim nails.