Monday 12 March 2012

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.


15 comments:

  1. This looks quite wonderful hun ;0) Dawn xx

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  2. That is fabulous Annette. I have some of those 7 gypsies labels - will get around to using them one day! Beautiful niche! X

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  3. How fab, that niche was well worth the effort - the bottles look so at home in their space.

    Toni xx

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  4. LOVE those little bottles and the saying underneath is just perfect!! Excellent job with the niche! waving hi from the hills of North Carolina :)

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  5. Wow!! Well done! Gorgeous niche and bottles :D.

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  6. Your niche is INCREDIBLE. I saw the photo on my sidebar and nearly flipped out. This is incredible. I can see why your wrists were in need of some serious therapy after that.

    Now that your niche is out of the way, I bet you are breathing a big sigh of relief. It is all downhill from here, I promise!!

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  7. Wonderful niche! I've yet to try one, tho' it does look like fun... especially when used to store your "special" medicinals! Great project.

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  8. WOW! I am afraid to show mine now... not that it's fully ready yet... Love all those bottles.

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  9. Wow Annette your altered book is amazing!

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  10. This is absolutely fantastic. I just love it. We used to have a Temperance Bar near where I once lived (last one, in UK anyhow)and it was full of lovely smells and jars, bottle like these and the most wonderful little cupboards.
    Thanks for the memory - but I have envy for your page now. Must quash it with some of those labels.
    Hugs, Neet xx

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  11. Wow - you're really moving ahead quickly with this and that's what I call a decorated niche! Much more elaborate than mine! :) I can't wait to see more....

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  12. This looks fantastic Annette, as all your little books do!! What a great idea. Love it!

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  13. fabulous niche, those little bottles are soooo cute. look forward to seeing what you do next. I am so behind and not sure when I will catch up
    janet

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