Last week my desk was a disgrace - but in my defence I am moving all my craft stuff from a 16ftx12ft studio in my garden to a tiny room less than half that size, indoors.
So it is getting rather full in here.
Thank you all so much for your comments on my blog - I do take everything you say 'on board'.
On the last blog entry comments, Rosie mentioned about us having 'our fingers in too many pies'
What wise lady - it summed up my dilemma perfectly.
So with that in mind, I have made a commitment to myself to complete all my unfinished projects.'
This is a journal I made on my first online course - it has lots of signatures so I ran out of steam.
So picking up where I left off in the story, my 'heroine' is living it up in Paris, and has been visiting some of the famous dressmakers with a view to having the latest fashions.
In hindsight I am quite pleased that I did not have the time to do more to this, because in the meantime I have dabbled in another couple of courses and have aquired the ability to add more colour to the pages. (We were shown how to colour huge sheets of water colour paper, by painting with tea, or coffee etc and they did look rather drab
I have now added more colours to the pages as I go, and it looks 10 times better. I have made cardboard cut outs and decorated them with gorgeous scraps of materials and beads, some, like the red one at the top, have a genuine vintage sample of material of the era - with a real french label attached for it.
Here is a scrap of the letter that went with one of the 'mannequins' to go into the scrapbook, which is now over 100 years old and has aged somewhat.
I was lucky enough to visit Monet's Jardin in Givernay a number of years ago and it was like stepping back in time - the print is from a fern leaf.
And this is the 'spread'
I had to take photos this evening - so under artificial light.
15 more pages to go to complete the book.
Wish me luck!
