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
