I organised a little gang of strangers on the internet to exchange handmade journals with each other as a fun pen-pal activity.
I sent out one of these little books to Ohio:
The one I got in return is this cutie and I've got underway with filling it in.
Having just got back from a holiday it seemed appropriate to include a little about that. I took my instax camera along, in spite of the danger airport x-ray scanners apparently pose the film (I've got away with it so far but I've heard bad things). In Stockholm's old town I took two pictures of this charming bit of architecture, and managed to not change the lighting settings for one of them, so it got overexposed.
A creative person has ways of making this work as a souvenir of course, I raided the sharpie stash which lives in my year nine pencil case and really? I'm quite pleased with the result.
In other news, we roped in my mother in law to be for help with the wedding invites. Those will be secret til after the event (unless you're invited, of course), but I might share some of the process. The aforementioned parent has quite a knack with watercolours so I'm hoping her help will turn my smudgy, illegible work in progress into something I can happily send out to all my loved ones.
Also in the works, more embroidery, and the pincha shawl should be finished in time for the worst of the summer to wear off!
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