PRAYER BIBLE - COMPLETING THE TABS AND EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT MEDIA FOR EMBELLISHMENT The tabs All the theme tabs on my Prayer Bible are now complete, and glued in place, with the verses highlighted and the respective theme written in the top margin. The Bible is now ready for use as a Prayer…
PRAYER BIBLE I had never heard of a Prayer Bible until a video came up in my YouTube feed from The Sisterita Club. This delightful lady has made a series of videos on how to create this useful tool. Making my Prayer Bible A little background My prayer life has been somewhat in…
VILLAGE FETE HAUL Yesterday afternoon my hubby and I returned to the village where we used to live, in order to join in their annual village fete. It's always held in the same field and it's always a lot of fun, with various stalls, and usually some kind of entertainment. This time the…
Warning: This is a very long post! Click on the links to take you to the relevant posts for more details. Quite an eventful year, one way and another. On the artistic front I have embarked on some new ventures, I've acquired quite a bit of new stash, some lovely books... Several gorgeous…
ALTERED BOOK: "THE JOURNEY" - PAGE 4: SOUTHERN SPAIN AND MOROCCO Interesting factoid: while editing and naming my photos for this book page, I vacillated between two spellings - is it Marocco, or Morocco? I finally settled on Marocco, but before writing this post, I thought I'd better check. Ooops. I was right…
STUFF FROM MARGARET, KITTIES AND MORE MINI-EMBELLISHMENTS Our neighbour Margaret has obviously been having a clear-out. She has now given me several bags of bits and bobs from her crafting days, and with the last lot, I thought I really should do something with them! Some of the earlier stuff has been put…
ALTERED BOOK: "THE JOURNEY" - COMPLETION OF PAGE 2: FRANCE 1 Last night I returned to the first French page in this altered book and completed the spread. Just as a reminder, here is how far I'd got with it before I moved on to the next page. All I had done was…
ALTERED BOOK: "THE JOURNEY" - PAGE 3: FRANCE 2 I am working on the two French-themed spreads in parallel because I have so many collage elements that I wanted to decide which page they should go on. The second spread on a French theme This time I was better prepared, and began by…
ALTERED BOOK: "THE JOURNEY" - PAGE 2: FRANCE 1 Today I began the next page in my altered book. I didn't get very far because I spent the earlier part of the afternoon doing some organising - sorting through a lot of my background papers (gel prints, printables etc.) and ephemera, and filing…
ALTERED BOOK: "THE JOURNEY" - TITLE PAGE, TEXTURE PLATE AND MARK MAKERS A red letter day for me - first day back in action in the studio after my recent run-in with Covid. I can't tell you how good it feels to be back. Title page of my new altered book Just a…
