Hello, Eleanor here again, with my minibook from July.
We wait patiently for produce to ripen, and as we recently bemoaned the fact that we don't grow enough fruit for our family, a seed was sown in my mind of a fun little 'minibook' of sorts for Richard. It will join all the others in the gardening tote, eventually, but here it is for now:
I'm calling it a cartelope (groan). It's a sort of wallet for postcards, like this:
The postcards feature fruits from around the world, which I found online, and printed off, and backed with postcard blanks, also found online. They fit nicely into the wallet pockets (well they would, I measured very carefully *grin*) :
I then found images of all the relevant postage stamps, resized them and printed, cut out and glued onto the postcards. All that remained was to research a typical first name and salutation in each country, and write a little message to Richard, trying to vary the handwriting. I then 'cancelled' the stamp using a franking rubber stamp, slotted them into the wallet and tied it up with string.
Here are the first 5 postcards (do you know what the fruits are, lol?):
And the messages on the backs (click to enlarge, see the stamps and read the messages):
And the rest of the postcards:
with their messages:
That last fruit has to be my favourite in terms of appearance - what a shame it doesn't taste so spectacular.
I really enjoy projects like this, made especially for my son.
Up at the allotment we are ripping out the tayberry, which was expensive and has never fruited, and the redcurrant which fruited but the birds got there first, and putting in a dozen raspberry canes instead.
We love raspberries, as you can tell from this month's recipe cards (moving house, mislaid corner rounder):
That's all from me, for now.
Hi from Caz
August 2008 was great. My mum was here, we had a trip to Scotland for the Edinburgh Tattoo. We stayed with our lovely friends, that I ADORE! We had a visit from one of Stuarts best friends, and it was joyful.
This year not so much! Work is hard, not the actual work I do but the new system we've had installed, that is not working so good and the other challenges I have faced this year, all coming to a head this month. And mum's trip has been postponed. The bad weather doesn't help :(
But one thing that I have found uplifting is making sure that I find a positive each month. A cause for celebration! And in July we had two. Our friends 40th and the birth of her baby girl, with just 12 days in between.
haPPy dAy!!
Caz
xx
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