Remember polaroids?

Still on this minibook fiesta, almost finished off all the ones I've bought at some point or other (as you do). These were polaroids taken in summer 1984, when I went on holiday with my parents to farmhouse outside York. We had a great time, and I have so many lovely memories of that holiday. And to make it especially memorable, the minster went on fire just after we visited it ... no it wasn't my fault!

Getting a lot more confident with the doodling now though! So glad I took that class...

Birthday cards keepsake book

No, that's not a self-portait on the cover (and since it came from my nephew I hope it wasn't meant to be either!). I decided to dig out all those old birthday cards my family have made over the years and put them into this book, bedeck it with lots of purple ribbons, the odd flower or two and some pretty paper. Great fun to do, and it makes a great keepsake album. And there's still space for more in there (just in case the family are reading....)

More minibooks!

This one is very pink, I know, it has to happen sometimes. My sis and I have birthdays 9 days apart and younger nephew's is only two days before his mum's so as I was going down to their's with pressie for Andrew we decided just to make it a birthday weekend and sis and combined out birthdays into one big cake fuelled experience .... here's the pics! You can tell how much I enjoyed the BPS Doodle all day class, eh?

The Bombdy

Minibook madness has descended! I bought several of these papermania minibooks some time ago and feel that before I get to seriously play with the bind it all I should use these up! So here's the first one, pictures I took when I visited the 'bombdy' - St Luke's bombed out church in Liverpool city centre. I'd flown in from Italy and had a couple of hours to kill before my train north so was wondering around when I realised something was going on in this interesting building. A group called Urban Strawberry Lunch had opened up the building as an art exhibition, come place for folk to meet and have lunch. A real fascinating mix of art, community, remembrance and ideas. I loved it.

More minibooks!

I've getting addicted to these I fear ... and have made two recently (both with bought books). The first one now houses all those lovely cross stitch and hand made Easter cards my family have made over the years, and I just couldn't throw them out, especially the cross stitch ones.

Well I liked doing this one so much I had to do another one today! It seems a great way of using lots of photos, especially if they tell a story. So I decided to tell the tale of the felt bowls from April when I was down looking after my sisters' kids.

Hhhmm, wonder what to do next??

German minibook

I really got into the minibook I did recently, and remembered that I'd been given this blank book for Christmas so decided to use it for piccies of various trips to Germany over the past few years. I've always gone over to the same area near Bonn, for work and sightseeing and visiting friends. It's a lovely part of the world, with great food and friendly people. Here's a few pages from the book. Stamps are Banana Frog's Fireworks, and other than some scraps of patterned paper and the book itself, that's all I used really.