What a disaster! So I do confess, I have been sulking! I have sulked for a week and am now over it and am moving ahead with a smile on my face because truth be known I probably have more wrinkles on my face than the book and they don't bother me.
So while I was recovering from this little trauma in my life I went on a group ride to a picnic. As luck would have it a nice man called James Mandy took his video camera and filmed the event! Sixty scooters mostly Vespa, Piaggio or Gilera combined to make the sound of one Harley and we scooted together through Perth to a picnic spot to celebrate riding scooters. James has uploaded it to youtube and here is the link. I am in it twice - once riding past the camera and once walking past some scooters. I am in jeans and a red shirt in the walking bit and a black and pink scooter jacket in the ride past. Have a peek if you wish to see if there are more wrinkles on me than on this page above! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlEVW7MA9rw
Back to the book....
So I decided to stitch a few pages together - I had tried this with a few scrap pages but it looked a little too neat and tidy for what I wanted so I went for a more rustic look in the book. I have used linen thread and a darning needle. It is going to blend in perfectly with what I have planned for these pages. So I am quite a lot happier now.
I made a trip to the hardware store today and purchased some Gesso both in black and white. and have applied some black to the first pages leaving exposed one word - naughty! It reflects how I felt tearing the pages out of the book! This photo shows how badly wrinkled the page is but this is a warts and all sort of blog so I suppose it fits in nicely. This project is a big learning curve for me!
The pages actually look better now the Gesso has dried so now I am quite excited about moving on to the next bit!
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