Today is the first day of Spring here in the southern hemisphere...and what a perfect blue and breezy day it is.
Ironically, in my experience, September often heralds the really cold and windy weather here in the south of the state but as the weather patterns are defiantly less "predictable" these days than previously we will simply have to wait and see what transpires...
But the sun is shining warmly, the birds are chirping and being busy about the garden and the breeze is very pleasant. To be able to enjoy this moment is a blessing...
Ironically, in my experience, September often heralds the really cold and windy weather here in the south of the state but as the weather patterns are defiantly less "predictable" these days than previously we will simply have to wait and see what transpires...
But the sun is shining warmly, the birds are chirping and being busy about the garden and the breeze is very pleasant. To be able to enjoy this moment is a blessing...
Acacias bloom from mid winter on here, their cheerful bright blooms herald Spring like no other native plant...
I have finally completed most of the work on the Koala Writing Journal, for my grandson...I was fairly satisfied with how it turned out, all things considered...The closure for this one is a thin strip of red kangaroo leather (very tough), with a couple of dried Eucalyptus (Corymbia ficifolia) gum nuts on the ends, just because I had them sitting drying on a shelf above my work bench from a previous project!
This one has a recycled cushion cover fabric cover and is long and narrow...
I made a video...if you would like to see inside...
And the second one...a pretty hefty six-signature Spring inspired "soft" cover tatty journal made almost completely from recycled papers, fabric etc. called "Prelude", both from the EVG digital kit I used and thinking also of Wordsworth's long and introspective blank verse poem which he wrote, started anyway, back at the end of the eighteenth century.
As a young child I thought Wordsworth lived in Tasmania mainly because of this poem, as he writes about his childish interaction with the Derwent River...I had him living somewhere up the Derwent Valley north of Hobart, thinking how lucky he was to be able to swim and play along the river bank...that was a mistake however...I found out there is more than one Derwent Rivers in the world and his was not mine!
And the second one...a pretty hefty six-signature Spring inspired "soft" cover tatty journal made almost completely from recycled papers, fabric etc. called "Prelude", both from the EVG digital kit I used and thinking also of Wordsworth's long and introspective blank verse poem which he wrote, started anyway, back at the end of the eighteenth century.
As a young child I thought Wordsworth lived in Tasmania mainly because of this poem, as he writes about his childish interaction with the Derwent River...I had him living somewhere up the Derwent Valley north of Hobart, thinking how lucky he was to be able to swim and play along the river bank...that was a mistake however...I found out there is more than one Derwent Rivers in the world and his was not mine!
The theme of this journal is "Prelude", from the digital images from an Ephemera's Vintage Garden digital kit called "Summer Prelude"...
I made this sewn cloth and recycled card cover following great tutorial by Wendy @ Wendy's Journal Adventure as I wanted a change from my usual way of doing things...I will need to make a couple more to be sure I like the outcome...I might use a lighter weight card and a smaller spine for the next one...it needs tweaking...
Yesterday I received some very thin foam sheets called "Foamiran" which can be used to make flowers for cards etc...now the two journals are completed I can get on to one of two things that have been hovering in the back of my mind for a while now...these flowers are one of them. I had a little play this morning and will post some images once I have something to show...I don't normally do much in the way of "flowery" but I need to make another transparent 80th. birthday card for a friend very soon and I thing the foamiran will be the perfect medium!
Watch this space...
Yesterday I received some very thin foam sheets called "Foamiran" which can be used to make flowers for cards etc...now the two journals are completed I can get on to one of two things that have been hovering in the back of my mind for a while now...these flowers are one of them. I had a little play this morning and will post some images once I have something to show...I don't normally do much in the way of "flowery" but I need to make another transparent 80th. birthday card for a friend very soon and I thing the foamiran will be the perfect medium!
Watch this space...
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