Beginning to fill the pages.

At last I have a couple more completed pages to show you, though the above layout is still under construction. The colour I used for the capital T looked perfect until I had finished it! I shall do another letter in a better shade and also have to decide how, or even whether to use the stamped tissue on the right of the page and what else to include. I have a piece of thyme from the garden being pressed in a nice heavy book but it wont be ready for some time.

I think this page is complete though I might add a decorative capital C just above the little embroidered square on the right hand page. I did this by working free machine embroidery on water soluble fabric, then applied it to calico and frayed the edges. The plant material on the far right is pressed chamomile from the garden under a piece of acetate and the strip design on the far left is a photocopy mounted on a strip of handmade paper and coloured with glaze pens. The three daisies are paper flowers which I found in a craft shop.

I drew and coloured the crab apples in each corner then tore them out, aged the edges with Distress Ink and machine stitched them in place. The leaves were coloured in the same way as the apples using water soluble pencils and stuck in place. The picture of blossom is from a magazine, mounted on handmade paper and aged as before and machined in place using an automatic stitch. I think there is enough on this page - even a capital letter might be too much.

I have just realised that I have passed my second bloggy birthday - it was on 17th September - how time flies. I must find out how many posts I have made.

The sun is shining and as I am a fairweather gardener I should be out there doing something useful. Goodness knows there is plenty to be done.