Back again with another of those Wednesdays that keep coming around so fast I can't keep up with them. Has someone put a whizz thing on "time" to make it go so quickly of late? All I know is that WOYWW (which I love, don't get me wrong) seems to be coming around much quicker than it used to. Is it because the nights are drawing in, the days actually ARE shorter? Anyway, since my splurge of activity last week I can't think what I have done this week - nothing to show you.
I have been stamping lots of ladies ready for my Open Spine Journal - the one I keep saying I will show you. Seems little point in showing you an open book, pretty paper for the pages but nothing in it - hardly worth doing a video is it but then you can't see it all if I just do the odd photograph. Hopefully soon (notice I do not promise next week again) you will get to see it with at least some images in. So my desk is here after stamping lots of images:
I've actually covered up the images but you can see the red rubber from some of the stamps I have used. These are very old stamps. Indeed they go back to my early days of stamping but I must say they stamp beautifully - perfect clear images, even the silhouette ones stamped perfectly first time around. I don't know who made the ones you can see but I know a lot of my stamps I have used are from Non Sequitur which may be a name some of you have never heard of. The ones you can see are all Erte designs. Erte was a French artist, Russian by birth, and known for his elegant fashion and stage designs. You will recognise his designs once you see them if the name does not mean anything to you. Anyway, I was totally into his designs so have quite a few rubber stamps I can use in my book, in fact I did not know I had so many until I came to use them the other day. Then there are my Versafine Claire inkpads I have been using (3 shades of brown), a yellow cloth from Costco that my bff gave me for cleaning stamps (it works well) and my Christmas bits box (the pale blue with the bubbles on).
At the moment the images are all packed up ready for me to start colouring in probably with Promarkers but also with some paints as some of them are tiny and therefore intricate. This is my "I might go away again" photo which, if I don't doesn't matter, it can be unpacked and used at home. There's my Flesh Promarkers on the top, my Open Spine Journal (yeah), my other promarkers (ex Felix pouch box) and my two current Dylusion Journals,
A couple of weeks ago I showed you a plant growing at the side of the promenade in Morecambe. Last week I forgot to show you the plant growing on the TOP of the rocks. I think it is a cotoneaster. Much nicer than the sycamore that sprouts up here and there.
You can see how close it is to the sea and that day was high tide something we rarely have seen. It was so interesting to see all the birds waiting for it to go out so they could start picking at whatever had been washed in.
Rightio, think I will leave it there. See you next week, all being well.
