I’ve attended too-many-to-count online courses and online events over the past year and I often found myself becoming easily distracted. One of the things I did to prevent this from happening was working on small, repetitive tasks with my hands while I was listening. One of the very practical projects I took on was making…
Well I haven’t posted since just after Christmas, but I’m not going to beat myself up over that. I’ve been studying hard and life is full of priorities. I have been starting to do some research into nanocellulose though and have a great website update today as I have now added the nanocellulose calculator! Richard…
Well, my first semester at Queen’s University in the Master of Art Conservation program is finally wrapping up. I will be handing in my last assignment very soon. Then I get to breathe a great sigh of relief and give a toast to myself for a semester well completed. I feel like I started off…
Over the last couple of weeks, I needed to use paste in the lab as I have begun some tear repairs on the WWII poster. I wanted to share my class notes on this because I think some of my friends back home will enjoy this very methodical method of making conservation grade wheat paste….
This past week I’ve made use of the Foster Freeman VSC 8000 (pictured above) quite a bit. I’m lucky to have access to this machine and I really enjoyed learning how to use it. It’s marketed for use in forensics, but we have one in our conservation lab for investigating heritage objects. Here are some…
We spent much of the summer getting ready for our move to Kingston, but were able to still get away for a short weekend trip to Canmore thanks to our friends Geoff and Gill. On our last evening there we did the Grassi Lakes hike and we had the trail nearly all to ourselves thanks…
This time last year, the dream of attending Queen’s University in the Master of Arts Conservation program was a tiny seed, a sight far off, something of which I could concentrate my efforts in. At that time, I never thought I would be where I am today, but this is how I got here. I…