Lyke's Blog: My Altered Book Angels & Poppies

Phew, I have finally done it, by the skin of my teeth and finished my altered book that I have to have ready before I leave on Wednesday as I only have 3 days after my return on the 12th, everything has to be in by Sunday 15th or latest Monday 16th. Since I don't like to be in my workroom on Sundays I thought I might just as well aim for the 15th. But although I said I have finished, there are always the last little things that must be tidied up. Things have a manner of unsticking themselves, or the pages don't seem to line up. This means cutting and chopping. Only, if I am not careful the book will end up even smaller, and that won't do.

So here it is my Angels & Poppies book.

It is the 5th I have done, the first two I made for an In Stitches exhibition and sold them immediately. Made me think that perhaps I didn't price it right. The third one called "Book of Flowers" was also sold for more of course; this was ar Ramster Embroidery Exhibition in 2005. My 4th, "Dragons & Butterflies" for the Wey Valley Workshop Exhibition last year, this didn't sell, maybe I asked too much? but am very glad I didn't because there is such a lot of myself and my family in it. Especially the grandchildren.

Big news: I did sell the Angels & Poppies last Friday 20th. When John and I arrived at the private view at Ramster Miranda Gunn (organiser) came and told me she had sold one of my items; the very first that went. I think she was just as pleased and thrilled as I was when I saw the red dot on the label. Of course I had another look and was quite surprised at how good it was, had forgotten that, or perhaps I had been too much on top of it and too stressed about it before leaving for LA. Am now planning the next one, and that will be even more in price.

This book is about Angels: I received so many beautiful Christmas cards that I was quite inspired. And the poppies came from a photograph I had taken the previous summer. And that was with my old camera. My new camera is brilliant takes much better photos, so hopefully I will have lots of great ones for book # 6.