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    Missed Tea Tuesday again

    February 8, 2012 - By 
    Gosh, it’s already Wednesday evening! Time seems to be getting away from me lately.
    I did want to show you why I missed tea yesterday.
    I was learning to knit the top onto a kitchen towel. Isn’t it sweet…the towel I mean. It’s a vintage towel from the box of linens I’ve been working through.  It  now hangs proudly in my kitchen.
    I also wanted to show you that I’ve started on the pages for the Postcard Challenge.
    This is the page for France.
    I made a pocket to hold the postcard from a label which I believe is from some sort of alcoholic beverage. Beer, ale, wine or spirit…not sure…
    I have a couple of extras laying beside that I plan to include once I put the page in it’s proper place in the book.
    I also have my postcard for Friday completed!!!
    Of course, I can’t show that now.
    But I must say,  I do love it!
    Hopefully, I’ll have enough time after my volunteer duty in the school library tomorrow to complete the page to hold said postcard before posting it on Friday morning.

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    Postcard Challenge week 5

    February 3, 2012 - By 
     
    For this week our challenge, hostess Darcy, picked France as our country of origin for the postcard.  
    I couldn’t lay my hand on the leftovers from the altered book I created for my BIL after one of his trips to  Europe. I know I had some good pieces. 
    UGH! I need to get organized.  
    I ended up going with a map of Paris hand marked by Maggie with her favorite places.

     
    Maggie mentions how worried she was about Thadeus and goes on to say she has the papers he sent separately  in a safe place. 
    Those must be some valuable papers…
    or dangerous ones.

    Since I got my sewing machine back, I’ve started working on the pages to hold all the postcards. This is my title page. I’ve blurred the title since it would give away too much about the direction I’m going.
    This is the first pocket page that holds Maggie’s card from Austria.
    These two pages will be sewn back to back with a piece of muslin that will connect to a second set of pages that will eventually become a fold in a signature.

    I need to get to work on the next several pages to get caught up. Then I plan to make each page as I do the postcard so I don’t fall behind.
    But that will have to wait until next week. It’s birthday weekend for my oldest, so it’s busy, busy, busy!!

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    Postcard Challenge week 4

    January 27, 2012 - By 

    In this weeks edition, Thadeus sends Maggie a greeting from China on a postcard with a beautiful old drawing of ancient farmers sowing seeds.
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    I had started trying to draw a dragon head but it was going quite poorly. It didn’t look anything like a Chinese dragon. More Nordic, so I went with a page from a children’s book about grains of the world.
    I also happened to have a very old postage stamp from China to use. Again, I continued the postmark to give it a bit of authenticity.  I must admit that sometimes get caught up in the minutia of things…
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    Thadeus explains that he found something in an old book and is searching for answers. He hints at the chance of something wonderful. His hand seems rushed or nervous as he writes. I wonder what is sending him off balance?
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    Please stop by Darcy’s blog  for the list of 
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