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I know we've done this before and we also have a tour of the paper making process in our Tours of the Creative Process on our Youngs Gallery Web Site.

But for those who haven't seen the process, here's how we do it.  I start with cotton linters and the linters of abaca, soak them overnight and then put them into a blender and strain out the excess water.

The pulp is put into a vat filled with water and other ingredients that we've accumulated from our garden all summer long, along with threads, scraps of paper, seeds, glitter, etc.

Sue boiled some beets and is adding the juice here.  I wouldn't recommend beet juice as it wasn't strong enough to change the color all that much.  It came out as a very delicate pink, which was nice, but not what we were looking for.

We pick a warm day in either the spring or fall, because the process is very wet and messy.  This year we made three hundred sheets of 8.5" x 11" which we will sell by the sheet but also use in the books that I like to make.

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