Posts tagged “Handmade”
How To Change Their Life at Christmas
What do your relatives really need this Christmas? A sense of safety. More income. Some peace in their lives. But you can’t give these things as gifts—can you? To an extent, I believe you can. Magic is the art of ritual. True magic is not flashy. It’s subtle. It claims to adjust the odds, and [...]
Guess What I Inherited
In this case “inherited” may be the wrong word, but these fine pieces of paper came my way: These were actually handmade by my sister Zangmo. She has a degree in sculpture and back in her university days she took a papermaking class. As a special project she made a variety of distressed papers treated [...]
Finding a Carpenter in Mexico City
For years I wanted to create magic scrolls. They speak to something deep within the soul. To unfurl a parchment and feel the magic radiating out: an image straight from our dreams. There were many reasons why I didn’t start. I didn’t have the time, it’d been so long since I studied art, what if [...]