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I decided to begin an exploring poetry notebook but didn’t like its flimsy yellow cover, so I glued on a sheet of cardstock from my Mariposa collection and then one thing led to another. I gessoed the edges near the spiral to cover the yellow, added a Photoscape collage, then blocks of lettering made from the leftover cardstock. The back cover got a different pattern cardstock, a Wordle and some text. A pretty envelope went inside the front cover to hold collected bits, but the inside back cover is still unadorned and sad; maybe I’ll do that later. Right now my floors need swiffering.
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May 24, 2011 at 12:29 pm
This is really pretty!
May 24, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Thanks, Mare, it’s nice of you to stop by.
May 24, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Very pretty! I could sit and watch the slideshow for ages.
Hugs,
GwenGuin
May 24, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Thanks, Gwen, it’s the first slide show I put on my blog and it was by accident. I was going to just add the 3 photos, but WP gave me a choice. Dumb luck, lol.
May 24, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Lovely! I can see that there is so much more to poetry than just words. Your creativity covers a gambit of the arts.
May 24, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Hi Sally, thanks for the kind words. Drawing and fiction are my main loves, but lately I seem to be veering away from them and heading toward essays and attempts at poetry. Soul Food has wonderful poets. I’ll be practicing in my journal, but don’t know how much will go online. I’m just dipping a toe into the poetic pool.
May 24, 2011 at 4:57 pm
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May 24, 2011 at 6:16 pm
This is a particularly lovely collection of work. It reminds me of when I sat making altered books with children at school. Lovely!
May 24, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Thank you,Heather, it was fun. Bet the kids came up with some great stuff.
May 25, 2011 at 4:52 am
I like the pocket!
I always like my notebooks to have pockets too, if they don’t already come with one, i improvise one. 
May 25, 2011 at 8:57 am
what a wonderful journal you’ve created, so much nicer than the boring books I used to copy my favourite poems into. thanks for the reminder about wordle, I had forgotten that.
May 25, 2011 at 9:25 am
Thanks, Carol–I’ve really gotten involved in covering notebooks. It’s great fun.
May 25, 2011 at 9:27 am
Hi Alexis–it’s a pretty envelope, but rather flimsy–still it looks nice. Won’t take much wear and tear, though. Thanks for visiting.
May 26, 2011 at 3:24 pm
A delightful container for the snippets of words.
May 26, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Hi Lori,
It is, isn’t it?
Glad things have eased up for you, hope you’re feeling better.