the lace one...

overflowing...

with...

handmade papers...

fabric pockets, handmade tags...

vintage laces and trims...

glassine paper pockets with little surprises...

shabby bits of silk, vintage book pages, painting canvas...

vintage fabrics, ledger pages, buttons and pearls... 

i've been busy here, finishing up all of my "started, but never quite finished" projects.  seems like i had a lot of those this summer.  sometimes my head swirls with so many ideas, that i end up starting something and then i get a great idea that can't wait, so i put that project in "the box" and start another one.  and of course there's all of the distractions that life throws at us.  and i eventually end up with a big box of unfinished projects.  but it's not such a bad thing, because sometimes the ideas slow down and then i have something to do.

this is the last of the projects in "the box" and i love this one.  i mean love, love, love it.  i started this book in May and bit by bit i've worked on the pages, making each one unique and different.  i've added so many pieces from my stash of beautiful vintage "stuff".  you know how you have that stash of wonderful things you've collected and then you don't want to use them because they are "too special"?  that stash.  i have decided to start using "the stash".  to share it and give it new life instead of storing it in stacks of cigar boxes and sometimes forgetting about it.  and i am finding that by using bits and pieces of my most special and treasured things, that this book is becoming sort of magical.  and i love it.  and probably someone else out there will love it too.  

right now, it is still unbound.  but i have a nice piece of creamy white leather on my cutting mat, waiting to be made into the cover.  i'm just working it all out in my head.  and once that happens i will bind up the pages and add the finishing touches and send it out into the world...