My Garden is My Inspiration

Recently I was given a box of brand new paper shopping bags

from a friend who closed a boutique in our town

so I decided I would use some of them

as the basis of a

 new journal

and as I was wondering around our Winter garden I gained my inspiration

from this vegetable artichoke plant sitting right in front

of the Chinese Lantern.

So I photographed this plant which is just in its early stages of growth

being winter

and

looking at me at the same time through the fence of their huge paddock

were

our feathered friends eyeballing me as they do

in the hope of getting something to eat.

So once more inside

I started to tear and cut the paper bags apart

and

thought the lovely grey cord could also be recycled

in binding the pages together

and before long I was started with

a new journal.

I had collected a very beautiful Italian Calender from 2001

which I trotted out and found

the most beautiful drawings of an artichoke

which I have used in my collages.

Hopefully there may be more pages to see as I go!

Hope you are all having a most creative and relaxed, worry-free week.

Love, Suzy