My Altered Book Project

These are the pieces for the first pages - yet to be sealed and of course I haven't written the caption yet. The earth and Mr H are not going to be this close together on the pages - I just put them close together to photograph them. I am also in the process of making a Scarlet letter to represent Hester which will also sit on these first pages.  From the letter I will have a small cord dangling with a pearl bead attached to represent Hester's daughter Pearl. I am in two minds as to whether to paint or tint  the background or leave the print visible.  I think I will sleep on this!  Now I am also hunting down some quotes suitable to the theme of the page - I know what I want as I spotted it when tearing the pages the other day- just need to find it amongst the text.

Now for the observant who have noticed - I have a thread to place between the eyeglass and the ear! Silly me didn't photograph it!

I have been looking for some flat head brads and so far I have been unsuccessful. It would be great if I had time to scoot all over the place looking for them but the scrap booking shops here in Perth are scattered all over the suburbs so I will have to wait until Saturday to resume my hunt.  The good thing about this I will be able to take some photos of my hunting trip to share with you.

Today I bought some linen thread and I am going to stitch some spare pages together tonight to see if they look alright. Nothing on the first pages is going to be too bulky or heavy so the thread should be sufficient. A friend of mine suggested I should try using some jewelery wire - she thought it would look great so am keeping this in mind as well.

Altering books is a bit like playing chess - you have to think about every move!