Last Post of the Year

I have just looked at how many blog posts I have written this year. Must try harder next year. Have finished all my notebooks. Number 49 is a card cover with a photograph of my Father when he was about 5 or 6 which I used on the invitations to his special birthday party.

The cover of notebook 50 is a black and white photograph of the meadow taken several years ago which has been printed onto silk then machined onto paper with plain paper pages.

Corrine at dosfishes inspired me to paint a large sheet of paper. I used orange, magenta, lime green and turquoise.

Which has been used for notebooks 51 and 52. 51 has been made up using strips of painted paper with coloured tapes and circles of the painted paper.

The back of 52.....

...and a section of the front.

They have plain paper pages. I have been listening to "The Best of Van Morrison" while writing this, there are so many lovely songs on that CD. This evening I am going to watch "The Way" about the pilgrim route.

Thank you all so much for your kind comments and friendship throughout the year. There have been points of this year when I have almost given up blogging, then suddenly there is a lovely message from someone and you know why you do it. I wish each one of you a very Happy New Year with lots of fun, laughter, creativity and good health.

Notebooks 47 and 48

I hope that you all had a good Christmas. Mine was different than I expected still had a lovely day. Have been for walks on a wet meadow with grey clouds overhead, not ideal for taking photographs.

Have been experimenting with a drawing programme which has been fun, gradually getting the hang of it. Made my "thank you" cards yesterday.

I was very lucky to be given a Bamboo Pen® for Christmas and will show you how I get on with that another time, once I am able to draw something that I feel pleased with.

Notebook 47 is a copy of an old envelope that I picked up at the Oxford vintage market a few months ago transferred onto fabric. I've stitched it onto cartridge paper and the hand stitched in a few pages of plain paper.

Notebook 48 is a watercolour picture that I did many years ago and found recently. It has hand stitched in cartridge paper pages.

Will be back soon with more notebooks. Going to sit and watch "Little Women" on the box this evening, love the story.

Christmas

I am so far behind with my notebooks they will have to wait until after Christmas. I have really enjoyed the course that I have been doing and I have spent far too long learning how to use a drawing programme.

Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas. Will be back soon once the notebooks are made. I will leave you with this card which I could have done freehand in a fraction of the time.