Crafty things

[wiseheart]

I've started to work on the baby journal for Baby Emma, expected to be born in late Juni - or rather for her mum, who happens to be my goddaughter. It's going to be a bit more lacy and pink like the last baby journal I made and a great deal more complicated.

For starters, it's going to be a bound journal, with 50 pages altogether, which I'll sew in in 5 bunches. Then it will have a lot of little embellishments, like self-folded envelopes of origami paper, which I've made this morning. There may be pictures later. It will also have lots of surprise pockets, lace lining (I mean paper lace, made with a border puncher - I've just finished the first bunch, and it looks promising).

Encouraged by this mammooth project, I gave up my futile resistance after half a year or longer and invested into a corner puncher. It's this one, from Efco:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Efco-Corner-Punch-Tendril-Pink/dp/B00O719TFK

I've wanted one for a long time - they're all so very pretty - but I always talked myself out of wasting money on something I'll probably use rarely. But now I gave in. Motif punchers are so terribly addictive, you can never have enough of them. Errr... yes, you can, but why would you want to?

I also made two more pencil holders out of recycled tin cans. The mini pizzas provided me with enough material, and I have quite a lot of corrugated paper I need to use up. I'd never buy them on my own, but most paper packages have them, even if you buy those packages for the other paper sorts. Annyoing, but that's capitalism for you.

Anyway, there'll be photos later, but now I need to type up stuff. The picowrimo crowd will expect a snippet from me tonight.

Comments

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

What a lovely gift to give for Baby Emma. I can't wait to see your creation. I know it's going to be lovely

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hope so. I'll document the process in pictures, so that you folks can follow the development.