Dream Notebook - Take 2 (inside)
Inside the front cover
coffee dyed paper
these pockets made from paper bags which I have dyed and fiddled with
room for insert card
L: is alcohol inks dripped onto yellow page
the other side of the page with the rest of the paper bag, with insert journaling cards (about size of a large bookmark)
semi painted paper with gold paint smeared on.
the reserve of these papers, able to write on
centre page of notebook, yellow lightweight card stock
another paper bag, but smaller - lightly alcohol inked with overlay of stencil
and more cards to journal on
L: paper is commerical paper about semi-grey/brown
the rest of the papers are a variety of coffee dyed, graph paper, other writable paper...
old advert on back cover (picture taken before book pages added)
Comments
I've also got quite a lot of other brown paper bags, I think they were used in a deli...
And then every so often a retailer will put your purchase in a paper bag - always try to keep them...and now in NZ it's hard to get anything in a "plastic bag" - more often or not the retailer tells me I can purchase a bag for an extra $. I have a couple of little bags, made out of say a para-shoot cloth (that spelling is wrong) that roll up real small.
Fighting a bit of a battle with the next larger book on the work table. It's supposed to be representing Autumn/Fall - but it seems to taken a leap into Grunge-mode.
I'm looking instead to making some prints that represent Fall...
are the bags' original color that brown that ours are?
or are they white? they take your dyes and colors amazingly well!
actually now that every store seems to be plastic... you seldom see the bags
except in farmers markets and such.
and to think they get a second life in a beautiful handmade book by Catherine!
kudos dear artist! xo
I like the idea of folding them around a page so you get another space...
"plastic" is almost no-no here - or it has to be biodegradable
it's interesting because in the "olden days" we never had plastic carrier bags...now people think they are real trendy these new fangled paper carrier bags. Only a few stores had them, and they were cherished, but for many decades that was abnormal to put your purchases in. Because many stores want to charge you, I think also "new fangled" must also mean manufacturers are putting a monetary premium on them.
And then there was brown paper or white butchers paper that was tied up with string...String was very useful on the home front!
I often find myself confronted my the 'new millennial' telling me it's all my fault one these bags, and the climate change....then you look at what they are carrying - plastic vinyl bag/purse, their very large smartphone, the designer clothing or cheap import and they are eating something in a little throwaway plastic container with plastic cutlery and drinking coffee out of a semi-plastic throwaway cup!
And all you see is the "fast" culture...
There are still manufacturers producing fine bone china cups, or nice sturdy dinner sets, metal cutlery, fabric stores to buy said material to sew into a dress. There are even clothing that lasts a lifetime...there are many articles you can keep recycling like the takeaway cup.
again off me soapbox :-)