Crafting Saturday

Today I decided to have the whole day to myself, doing nothing but crafting. It's ages since I last had a day to simply sit back and enjoy myself and not bother about housework, cooking or rushing off to work. Soooooo... I started out by making a miniature book - an old, battered, worn out book containing pictures of old-fashioned medicines and treatments.





Next I made another old book, this time containing pics of Victorian transport....





....and after that, I made a little journal. I don't have any pics of the inside of it yet, it's not quite finished, but here it is..



When I'd finished with the miniatures I started on something I've been wanting to do for ages - an altered book. There are some beautiful altered book pictures online and I just love them! Anyway, I gathered together some bits and pieces and I'm quite pleased with how it looks so far, although I want to add a lot more to it yet! I covered the original cover with plain paper dyed with tea and scrunched up to give it the wrinkled effect, and then laid some gold tissue paper over parts of it. I made two flowers with the tea-stained paper and later on I added some gold flecks of paint. Yes, it's coming along nicely, I think I'd like to add some metal pieces to it so I'm going to keep a look-out for something suitable. Here it is so far...