Chapter H..is for HOMER by Katerina Nikoltsou

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Showing work in progress and some final pages...not all, oh, no, best to be surprised when (and if) it arrives! My letter is "H" and that is for HOMER (not Homer Simpson!). You know, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, with the help of a singing Muse...of epic adventures at Troy, of searching for a King who set sail from a port called Asine (A seeee nay) and was all but forgotten...about poetry and prose, and discovery!

Just beginnings, only two have been completed and sent to Cheryl and Sloan. I am still working on the other 24 (+ as you always make "back-up" in case the wine spills all over the pages :-0)

cutting, folding, stacking...

Lots of Trojan horses...like a stampede now that I see them!

...enough of posting, now back to work at the assembly plant...FUN!

 

[ejva:nsva]

i love the photo of the books massproduction. they are lovely all arrayed. and lovely standing alone also.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

thank you for the nice comment, echo june vincent ;-)

I hope "U" and the "u" are doing fine...it is a fun project!

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Yay! Looking great!

[cheryl penn]

Katerina!! At the party - good for you - looks FAB! :-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

progressing...sand and dust of the archaeological sites are now sandpaper strips...

soon to be stuffed in envelopes?... and on their way to selected mailboxes near you!

[Ptrzia (TICTAC)]

Yours'll probably be the first booklet I receive...our postal systems go like rockets! Looking forward to it.

 The work looks great Katerina!

I am progressing too but slowly...turtle pace! :-)

cheers

[cheryl penn]

Hey TICTAC - turtle pace is better than NO PACE :-)))

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Morning job was "machine" work...rubber stamping "h" to front and back of vellum overleaf of first page, somewhat like a cover sheet. That "H" is made with the end of an eraser...7 stampings per "H", two "H" per sheet, times 26 ...well 24 boekies = (a lot of robot-machine work!)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

BIG progress made in afternoon-evening for "H"! Me thinks it will be in tomorrow's mail...but only to the "distant" relatives first. Already sent today's mail to three in South Africa, as it takes 10 days to 2 weeks for delivery. I am still waiting to hear that Cheryl has her copy which was sent Jan.5...so maybe by Monday??? (if the moonkeys don't snatch it, or the rains don't wash it away! However, the boekie is placed in a "baggie" to protect it from flooding waters of Australia, snow and ice of the north countries and places like Wisconsin, dust and winds of Texas and California, etc.

Became a "robot" again and added the "H" stamp to the front of the envelopes along with Mail Art 26

Sealed the address labels, and have NO markings on the bubble-envelope going to China!

But on the back of all the Gree blue-n-white forever envelopes, there are more rubber stamps!

and a "mail art matters" sticker to seal the deal, thank you Ruud!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Moving along at a chop-chop assembly-line pace: boekie-in-baggie-in-envelope-sealed-closed-add-"Mail Art Matters"...

Postage stamps on, some double 72 cent-ers for far-away-places-with-strange-sounding-names...

and others get an extra stamp just to be sure they arrive in the year 2011! Ready to go, in the mail tomorrow.

But not ALL. I am going to stagger the mailing, distant ones first, USA on Monday, and Europe

(because they tend to get them the following day), might be in the mail by next Friday ;-)

So, TicTac, you will probably NOT be getting "H" first. I would hope that Cheryl's "B" is the first that we get!

(Or have the monkeys taken it into the jungle???) sigh.

[cheryl penn]

Looking FAB Katerina :-) I know J F Chapelle has his B - he is the only one who has said he has received so far from distant shores :-(  Les and Heather, and hopefully Larianna have theirs.  Thanks for keeing us updated :-)

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Oh Katerina these look amazing! Cant wait to receive my first overseas boekie! I only have Cheryl's so far.