Board & Blanket

I. The Art Board

I prepped my board this morning, for the three-way art collaboration I'm doing with Asst Man (AM) and Em.
Each of us has a mounted board (from bink's stash--thanks, bink!). The idea is we each start ours and then pass it along, round-robin style, for the next person to add their art to—how/whatever they want.

I peeled two cloth covers off books and glued them flat onto my board. That's all I'm going to do to kick it off:

Penny Cooper approves.
"You've created a canvas where the others can play."

Yes, and also, honestly, I want to start slow and see how--or if--this proceeds. Em will start her board now,  I bet. Not sure when AM will.
They are opposites:
Em blasts stuff out, at 3 a.m.;
AM doesn't start until he has everything planned out.
I'm in the middle.

I told them I'm bringing my board to work, and I will swap with whoever brings theirs in. (Ideally we'd all swap at once, 1–2–3, but I am not holding out for that.)

I hope this works because I like collaborating--it gets me going--I tend to dawdle. I hope it sparks the other two, too.
We could be really great together...

And, in fact, AM offered to help me set up a faux cathedral dome for the girlettes to do a Toys Recreate Paintings shoot of the "Assumption of Mary" I posted yesterday!
He suggested an upside down wicker laundry basket--poke holes in the sides for the dolls to be in flight...
There will still be a parade though--this is Parade Summer.

II. The Blanket

What a gift I got yesterday from a coworker!

Clothes-Helen collects, or accumulates :) vintage fabrics, linens, clothes. She's slowly getting rid of some she's had for years.
She brought in this twin-sized trappers blanket by  Faribault Mills (modeled on the Hudson Bay blanket).
She said she was going to donate it unless I wanted it, in which case she would give it to me. Did I?

Did I ever!

Here it is this morning:

This is only the second four-stripe blanket to be donated to the store in my time. The first one I foolishly marked only $20--up from my coworker Mr Linen's price of $8. It sold instantly.
That was the beginning of my lust for wool blankets from Minnesota mills (primarily Faribault & Bemidji Woolen Mills. I'd blogged about the blanket "Guided" by Faribault I got at the store.)