a cactus bouquet from this morning’s walkabout.
nature’s majesty in the city.
i’m plotting a drive with my sister down an alpine road near the border of germany, austria, and switzerland. i guess i’ll have to get a more up to date map. this one’s from the 50’s.
i’m thinking about the kind of travel journal i want for this trip.
so i took a look through the last 3.
what do i want? i don’t know. i decided to paint postage stamp-sized pictures of these travel journals while i thought.
while i was painting an idea came to me. i knew it would.
i’m also looking through my STITCH*BOOKERY books. reacquainting myself with the features i like and thinking about how to incorporate into a new structure.
one thing i will be continuing in this new sketchbook for my trip to the bavarian alps is the use of cancelled postage stamps on my pages.
these are from a collection of modern stamps that ingrid gave me 2 summers ago in sweden.
one structure i’m considering is an accordion in a case like this one…
except i’m thinking of sewing it into a repurposed cover from a german atlas. ideas ideas.
or a gigantic fold-out map with places to write.
i simmered some beans all afternoon. helps with the creative thought process. someone said that.
you know i’ll keep you posted on this travel journal bizness.
by the way, before i forget, STITCH*BOOKERY, SKETCHBOOKERY, and OMG are all on sale for $20 buckeroos off. if you have a hankering to make sewn books, sew paper, play with gouache, draw, or watercolor now’s your chance.
the end.
Love the journal construction, love the journal pages, love the cacti! 🙂
I have done that drive – worth every bit of what it takes to get there. I don’t recommend a convertible – but go for it. Weight is what my journals have boiled down to. I make covers once I’m back home and do the rest en route…Have a blast!
The Gotland is the island some of my ancestors are from. My mother’s mother’s mother came over by herself with one suitcase headed to Morris County, Kansas in 1893. My mother’s mother’s father’s father also came from Gotland in 1871 with his wife and her parents and siblings to almost to the same area in Kansas. I know that you are from Kansas and your sister still lives here. I just recently was contacted by a “cousin” from Gotland that gave me the history of my great-grandmother which had been a brick wall in my quest to find my Swedish ancestors. I would like to visit there one day.
Thank you for sharing your walkabouts. I have never seen cacti like those!
You also reminded me to go back and make more journals and stitching from your classes!
one suitcase and all by herself.. what a good story that is! how lucky to get that info from your long lost cousin. wow!
the moss family landed in kansas (some of us for a brief stay some for much longer) in the mid 70’s for a year when our pop was in korea. salina was a “waiting wives’ base”
I will need a piece of that map. For my travel journal. We are going to be driving in the alps in 9 weeks!!!!!!!
let’s get a convertible!