I have been reminded all too frequently while watching YT crafty videos lately that many folk really do like to hot glue plastic ones onto almost everything at this time of year.. but me, I don't finish watching those videos...I might not necessarily remove them from my subscription list, but I do give them a little time to get over the tendency before I venture back for a peek.
Talking about this phenomenon reminds me of a visit I paid to a Bunnings store in Sydney a few years back and saw, to my horror, a clear resin toilet seat for sale which had a whole family of these things embedded in it...it still makes me shudder to recall it! Who on earth would actually put one in their home apart from eighteen year old students sharing away from home for the first time...until they realised the effect it might possibly have on their female visitors, and then they would get rid of it pretty quickly I reckon! (or hope, anyway!)
Enough...I have gone the wimps use-a-photo route with my inchie again this week...
I have been making a couple of new projects over the past few days, finally starting to feel a bit more energetic...
I found some uber cheap LED light strings at our local Reject shop a week or so ago and decided to make an origami lily garland, having seen one similar a while back in a paper crafting book from the library, sorry, no reference for this one...somehow I just retained the idea without reading any further, not being one to make garlands or have lights draped around the house.
Also, I have never really taken to origami apart from assisting the smalls many years ago when making little swans was a project their school undertook during a collaboration with a Japanese school and making a tiny pair into earrings...my niece used these at her wedding a few years back amongst her wedding decorations...however, there are so many great YT videos made by clever folk that it was a breeze...no more trying to interpret whether the dotted line was on top or underneath...for me it was like trying to make a complex crochet pattern without a crochet hook...
For some time, ever since I started making my journals and albums I have been trying to think up a way of containing the postcards, without much success I might add...they just ended up bulky and awkward.
I have used a lot of them as focal and documentation pieces in journals simply to give them a useful home.
Recently I was looking through a handmade journals book at the library (Artful Journals by Janet Takahashi) and found this idea amongst the projects listed...just exactly what I wanted...tres simple, but effective and just what I was looking for...now I wonder why I couldn't have thought this idea for myself, as it has been a little puzzle in my head for so long now...it is a very simple folded piece of card with a suitably sized ledger post inserted though all pieces...
A few hours decorating and drying time, overnight under the Webster to flatten everything well and this morning I was able to add my postcards and finish it off...I am very pleased with the outcome. Janet's book has many good suggestions and ideas for binding and using different styles...
Well, that's about it folks, see you soon I hope,
Di