I’ve always liked playing with scissors, paper and glue and we always had scrapbooks for Christmas when I was little and some of the Gloy glue that came in a glass bottle with a rubber top that had to be stabbed with a sharp scissor point to get the glue out….health and safety horror!
It was almost exactly 2 years ago when my blog post looked like this…………
It was the Wednesday boot sale a few weeks ago and fishing through a box of books that one of the house clearance bods had on the ground by his van I found 2 old scrapbooks of postcards and cuttings.
One of them opened at a page with a poster and postcards about and by the artist Eric Ravilious. I love his work.
The man only wanted a £1 for the two so I bought them…………………for goodness sake ………….why do I want someone else’s collections?!I just couldn’t bear the thought of them being chucked on a bonfire or in a dustbin.
I took lots of the postcards out of the scrapbooks and some of the cuttings but several were water or damp damaged, too well stuck or not subjects that interested me.
For a while I couldn’t decide what to fix them into, modern books for scrapbooking have small pages and not many of them but then remembered I had a big watercolour drawing pad, also found at a boot sale. I collected more interesting bits from some old books plus some of my own old postcards and got some photo corners for the postcards and then started sticking things in – just like 60 years ago!
Not quite as random as they used to be, as I’ve been filling pages on a theme.
Apples
and children.
I’m still having great fun with scissors, paper and glue!
