I'm not sure what the flowers are in the picture. They were purchased at a closeout sale and included no informational tags! They are beautiful, tho...
Kenya is getting quite comfortable. She ventures throughout the house now, plays with Cookie Monster and comes for the supper meal. Yesterday when the garbage trucks came by, she didn't run away. Instead she growled at the trucks!
I finished working on a paper project. It can stand on it's own as a small notebook with lots of pockets (about 3 by 2 inches) or as a piece of ephemera to add to a journal. I used cardstock for everything but the notebooks. I used craft velcro dots to close. Here it is closed...
And opened the first time with a pocket and side tuck...
And opening the second time with a pocket and a belly band...
When you open the left hand green page to the right you see a notebook and a side pocket or tuck...
When you open to the right hand green page to the left you see a notebook and a pocket...
Two notebooks and lots of pockets and tucks in a very small but quite sturdy package. What's not to like?
I have the beginnings of several more little notebooks like this ready to decorate. I used washi tape along with glue and two stickers to decorate the above example. For the notebooks, I used regular copy paper, stapled together with a tiny stapler and then added the washi tape, again with glue, to cover the staples. I used double sided heavy duty tape to add the notebooks to the page as well as for all the pockets and tucks.
So how are you doing? Most folks say that summer is halfway over by the Fourth of July but I think it's just getting started. Many public schools are not even out until the end of June in this area...guess my summer is only about two months long!!! However you view summer, be sure to enjoy some summer activities...
Talk with you tomorrow...