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		<title>Another Bit of Kit From the Explorer&#8217;s Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Victorian expedition book case, made of ebony-stained basswood, containing six blank books: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, J. Stephens Journals, Lewis and Clark Travels, Ibn Batuta First Footsteps in East Africa, Burton Principall Navigations, Hakluyt Castaways, de Baca It measures about 1 1/2&#8243; x 1 3/4&#8243; x 1 3/4&#8243;, without the carrying strap. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/05/07/another-bit-of-kit-from-the-explorers-club/</link>
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		<title>Midsummer is Finished!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, in miniature, performed by marionettes, sometime in the 18th century (judging by their dress): A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream Bo Press Miniature Books, Riverside CA  2012 2 1/2&#8243; x 1 3/4&#8243; x 1&#8243;, 42 pages, 14 pop-ups A pop-up version, much reduced, of Shakespeare&#8217;s A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, performed by 18th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/05/03/midsummer-is-finished/</link>
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		<title>Round One!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I put all the parts of Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream together just to see how they might look. I have a list of notes a mile long . . . . . My biggest problem is that it&#8217;s incredibly thick. I&#8217;ve substituted some of the cardstock elements with 24lb paper, but I might have to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/30/round-one/</link>
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		<title>An Added Attraction!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to put a little extra surprise into the Midsummer package: a booklet containing the entire text of Pyramus and Thisbe, enacted by the mechanicals in the pop-up version.]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/23/an-added-attraction/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I got all the scenes engineered! 2. Went back and made all the Puck variations smaller, and gave him wings. 3. Eliminated the fold-up Palladian window &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t get it to deploy properly. 4. Made all the leaf wings and drops lighter and more delicate, and less saturated. 5. Changed the show curtain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/20/todays-notes/</link>
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		<title>Breaking the Ice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did it! I engineered the first scene! I know it looks pretty goony now, but just wait! I love it that the Palladian window flips up.]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/18/breaking-the-ice/</link>
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		<title>Polishing the Potatoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . . as we called it in grad school. It&#8217;s all the very very unnecessary things we had to do before we could start our weekly projects. Alphabetizing the spice rack. Cleaning the bathtub grout with an old toothbrush. And so while I wait for the strength to continue with Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/15/polishing-the-potatoes/</link>
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		<title>Coming Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m staging the scenes from A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream that I&#8217;m including in the pop-up book, because they will determine what actions I engineer for them. Here&#8217;s the first three: At Theseus&#8217; court, Demetrius and Hermia quarrel. The workmen prepare &#8216;Pyramus and Thysbe&#8217;. Puck and the Fairies in the woods. I&#8217;m using an old wing-and-drop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/09/coming-along/</link>
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		<title>Midsummer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been suffering from a slight case of writer&#8217;s block, and moping around making chained bookcases while waiting for some ideas to show up. Since they&#8217;re taking their sweet time, I decided to go out and find some I called a pal of mine who knows more about miniature books than anybody, and we tossed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/04/02/midsummer/</link>
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		<title>The Finished Stall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s up on the website now here. This was my first open book, and it was harder than it looked. The &#8220;Black Hours&#8221; (Bruges c.1470. It&#8217;s in the Morgan Library) are illuminated on black-stained vellum, which I thought was appropriate for a black-stained lectern.My favorite part are the little chained weights that hold the pages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/blog/2012/03/29/the-finished-stall/</link>
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