Happy end of the month, TeaPotters! What a fun topic we had to create with time 'round. Thanks Anita for your wonderful tutorial. I immediately set about to create the 'real looking' book....I must have mismeasured as I could not get the accordions to line up 'perfectly enough', so that one is set aside for a future project. I went with the Pop-Up Book Card. Another fun fold.
The inside of my card will remain a secret, until it arrives at the intended TeaPotter. The outside was created after a stroll through an Anthropologie catalog. OH, my goodness...what a treat...to live in that catalog for a few hours...I dog eared so many pages...
The My Mind's Eye DP was the perfect wallpaper for my bookcase. Isn't it wonderful loaded with 'beautiful moments' (a Tim Holtz saying sticker'). It sure looks like the bookcases in my house...I confess to OVER~loading the shelves...and forgive me, but there is a layer of protective dust on every item.
I added the Heart book on the top shelf. The book is closed with a simple seam binding tie. Inside the stage is set...
May everyone have an Audible account...it's simply the PERFECT way to combine my favorites things...playing with paper and being immersed in a book. I am currently actually turning pages on 'A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh'.
I'd love to hear what books has captured you recently.
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Sun, Sep 30, 2018 @ 4:57 PM
Everything about this is fabulous Susan....ohhhhh I wonder what awaits the lucky recipient. I got into audio books while we were away, our library have them for free YAY! I digress, your card is brilliant!!
------------------------------ Susie
Please don't take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132012
Sun, Sep 30, 2018 @ 11:25 PM
Love that image...I'm sorry it's not coming this way so I could pore over it in more detail. It's a bit like my shelves , antique china, new and old books. I want to look inside the Wild Horses and the New Feast! Perfect wallpaper. I do hope your Ticklee shares the inside when this arrives.
I have recently enjoyed Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, and a book by a woman who went to live in an old house on the outskirts of Dublin with her grandfather for his last few years,candy then inherited the house. Having worked in a declining country house in the UK ( over eighty servants in its heyday, I was the only live-in staff when I worked there) I could understand a lot of the issues she was facing. I've also just reread a book by a man who rescued a tiny kitten on a snowy night and successfully raised it...and amazingly, managed to find out who both the parents were! He knew what the mother looked like, because he found her caught in a trap, and after he released her he tracked her back to a barn where he found the kitten. So he was able to trace her owner without to much difficulty once he realised the kitten was part Maine Coon. But the way he found the father was one of those almost-unbelievable coincidences.
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Registered: June 3, 2016 Location: France Posts: 60538
Mon, Oct 01, 2018 @ 1:06 AM
I'm really impressed by this great creation, I would reach out my hand and take something out of this bookcase!! I'm sorry you couldn't realize the folding if you need help don't hesitate and ask me or Sabrina to help, but this is a perfect book card and I hope too the one who will get this beauty will show us the inside, maybe it's me...
I'm reading Moloch at the moment a book from Thierry Jonquet it's a thriller but I love to read also Helen Keller I'm reading this book in English version that's good for me to learn some new words in English
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50743
Mon, Oct 01, 2018 @ 6:00 AM
I would like to have an afternoon to peruse your bookshelf here...dust be damned! This is very clever and I like that you kept the inside a secret....that's the fun of the Tickle ;)
I read The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See when I was at the lake...great story (and I even was able to find the elusive tea mentioned in the book!)...I also have read books by some of my fav Scandinavian mystery writers in the past few weeks: Helene Tursten, Camilla Lackberg, Mari Jungstedt..check them out if you're into mysteries.
Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39843
Thu, Oct 04, 2018 @ 6:25 AM
well Susan, you have again blown me away. Did you cut this bookcase out of the catalog? well, whatever you did, it's outstanding. you certainly 'see' things many of us don't.
I just finished The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Dickens as he started writing A Christmas Carol. I'm working on a book about Beethoven, rereading the last Harry Potter, and probably something else I've forgotten. Yes I start multiple books. interesting juggling that. and I often re-read books, like Potter, when I'm feeling stressed and need something familiar.
------------------------------ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Wed, Oct 10, 2018 @ 7:42 PM
Can you hear me squealing!!!!!! Guess who received this. I was so excited the minute I saw the envelope as I knew that Susan hadn't revealed the 'inside'. Everything I love....pop-up book, mushrooms, sleeping girl - lending on a mishroom, safety pin, paper lip, metal tag with cherish engraved on it (wow), pearl dots, decorative border and polka dot paper. Oh wow this is magic. Thank you so much Susan.
------------------------------ Susie
Please don't take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here.