Bookcover

My diary is used very much, everywhere, so I prefer to have this

envelope around it to keep the book from looking hackneyed

I started this one two years ago and it will still last for one year, 

aproximately.

I left a diagonal opening to keep a pen ready for writing




It is the backside, a scrap cut from a waistcoat

which I made several years ago. I didn‘t like to wear it 

and made a Japanese knotted bag of it.  

here fixing the bottom



I loved the technique how the fabric is constructed:

Cut-outs from different fabrics and raw-edge appliqued on to a 

background fabric 

A cut-out flower for the backside of the diary



Front inside - a place to keep treasured things - here a smiling granddaughter

(old photo )

Many empty pages left for future happenings.

WOYWW - My worktable today

I am working on several projects at a time
On the first photo is my stitching

 

My beads and a small sewing kit - as I am not in my "studio" but in France in a house
which DH is renovating - Oh my goodness me!
I am carrying it with grace

The groove on the left is practical to take up beads and put them on the needle one by one
it is our mutual invention - DH made it I conceived it.
There  are even kind of legs so it can stand by its own. 

I prepared two new pages for my diary I left some spaces to write into them.
The pages are not made for water colour - never mind I will press them a little
 

This is the cover for the diary I am using over and over again with each new diary
which I start.

Have a peek inside: Each new achievement in this house is noted down
And on the bottom right I collaged some special treats at Christmas time in France called
"macarons"

That's it!