Altered Book Class - The Niche!!

The Apothecary Shoppe Window

This week's class with Elizabeth was to get the niche cut out of books and decorated and once I had located the clamps the fun began!!  Thank goodness for Elizabeth's very detailed instructions and photographs, this was a lot easier than I had first anticipated!  OK... the fact that I chose to have quite a substantial niche proved to be pretty hard on the wrists but I knew which word (Words being my theme for my altered book) I had chosen for this and I had all those wee bottles so it was just a matter of making the hole deep enough for them to fit!!

I used 7Gypsies labels for all the bottles so they have fabulous labels with words like Elixer of Opium, Chloroform Liniment and Arsenic Poison.

The definition underneath reads:

apothecary: N. the physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and 

grave worm's provider.

when Jove sent blessings to all men that are,

and mercury conveyed them in a jar,

that friend of tricksters introduced by stealth

disease for the apothecary's health

whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim:

'my deadliest drug shall bear my patron's name!'

from Ambrose Bierce Devil's Dictionary.