More fabric paper

I hope you saw my Second Thursday Tutorial where I created fabric paper.  If you missed an earlier post from this month on fabric paper, it is here.  Today I'm making a third.  It will be used as one side of a second page in my fabric paper book.

Once again, I chose some beautiful tissues, both decorative and plain, along with dress pattern tissues.  I paired them with this ugly fabric I purchased (10 yards, in fact) one year in a thrift store.

These take an entire day to dry, so I hope to have something more tangible soon.

For Day 6 of 22, I once again recycled and repurposed used tissue and dress maker tissues, along with some new, albeit ugly fabric.  All tissues were gifted, none were purchased, including the dress maker tissue.

Thank you for continuing with me on this 22 day recycling journey.  I am grateful for you, and promise to be finished with fabric paper soon.

Since this is a rather pathetic post today, I thought I would show you another photo I found in my basement of the Arch taken in front of the Old Courthouse.

I photographed the photo, then remembered that Susi thought I should scan it.

Since my scanner has been on the fritz for awhile, now, I'll let you decide which is better.

When I took this photo, the building on the left was the Adam's Mark Hotel.  It is now a Hyatt Regency.  You are seeing the front of the Old Courthouse, which is the opposite side that you see from the Arch.  The statue is called The Runner.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Old Courthouse, which was free to enter and visit the times I was there (but I doubt that is the case now, since it appears to be part of the Arch tour), it is famous for the Dred Scott case.  It was also where slaves were auctioned in one of the court wings (Probate Court) until 1861.

Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken into a "free" state, where he had been allowed to live free.  Then his "master" returned him to Missouri, a slave state.  Scott sued and claimed he was a free man.  The state court ruled against Scott, the Federal court ruled against Scott, and the Supreme Court ruled against Scott, claiming Scott was NOT a citizen of the United States, but property, whether he had been free in another state or not.

The Chief Justice wrote that Scott was a slave regardless how much time he had lived in a free state.

The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all of the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied [sic] by that instrument to the citizen?

— Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. at 403.

The court claimed that slaves were not citizens.  Thinking this would put a stop to the slavery issue, it had the opposite effect and was one of the major causes for starting the War Between the States (or Civil War).   After the war, the Supreme Court admitted it was the worst decision by the highest court in the land they had ever made.

Also, per the Free Kibble site (found on my right sidebar):

It's FEED ME Friday - We're donating 5X the kibble to feed shelter pets today!

So don't forget to visit and help them donate more kibble.  Bleubeard and Squiggles will love you for it, too.