A Christmas Lace Book/Journal

Several months ago I was approached by a customer

to create a "Christmas Lace Book/Journal using

rusted items, Arthur Rackham images 

and embellish as I see fit".

Well I have to tell you dear bloggers - that was

quite a challenge. So here is what I came up with!

It is the story of St. Nicholas delivering his

gifts to children on the Eve of Christmas

and the celebration of the day of Christmas.

I decided to incorporate some varying shades of gold

(Front cover)

which I felt would complement my rust dyed linens and silks

with splashes of red and deep maroon.

Sari silk was used in the binding

of all the pages.

I added many gold and silver embellishments of bells

stars, teddies and toys.

Several pages show a display of dyed mohair from our goats

with touches of red sari silk ribbons

and several different images of these 

delightful little red breasted robins.

All in all I think it came together reasonably well

in the end! What do you think?

Of course there is lace upon every page - it would have 

never been complete without heaps of beautiful

laces in varying shades of white, cream and blue.

♥♥♥♥♥

Now this is quite off the topic but I just felt I needed to share

this very important news and as a favour for dear Karen

of Todolwen,  who 

has asked me to share some updates for her~~ while attempting to change the URL of her blog, she accidentally deleted it!  And in doing this she
accidentally also lost all of her 1000 plus followers.  If you were a follower of Karen's blog and have noticed that she is gone -- you can now find her here  at her new blog location!

Please pass this blog link onto any of your own followers

who might also be following Karen.

Can you imagine how upsetting this incident could be?

Thank you dear bloggers always for your kindness
in visiting and commenting. It is always so
wonderful to see new followers too.

Much happiness in your Christmas creating activities!
May the joys of this season accompany
you everyday and always.

Love and hugs, Suzy