The Less Patient Secret Book ;)

I have in my favourites the most amazing piece of work... it is aptly named patience and I love it, but I have neither the patience or the skill to produce something like it so came up with my own version... called 'Less Patient'!! ;)

Front cover using Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante papers.

This is the side view which shows the two large matchboxes as drawers.

A thin book slides out of the gap between the two matchboxes.

I am going to add all my favourite music titles to the pages.

Then you open one of the drawers to reveal another book...

The ribbons are so that you can remove the books... a bit like battery compartments!! :)

When you open the book you see that there is a small matchbox attached to the end...

and inside of it is another wee book...

I sewed all the signatures of these books...

and decorated the pages with papers...

Then you open the other drawer to reveal a divided compartment...

and remove the smaller mini book...

all pages decorated...

ad the larger of the two mini books...

and voila... the complete set... pretty cool eh?  LOL

WOYWW 27th July 2011

Another week whizzes past at the speed of light... though I have managed to finish a book I have been working on and I have loads of stuff in the pipeline to play with.

This is my desk... with the almost finished book... I have wanted a bigger version of the books I make for keeping ATC's... so made myself this one.  The first half is for ATC's that people have sent to me and the second half is for storing ATC's I make ready for swapping.   Also on the desk are a couple of lovely finds I bought this morning... the Tisane box is going to 'altered' to sit on my desk with little embellies in because it opens front ways and will make getting to stuff super easy and I love the To Do list... its a frame with a clipboard at the top... I'm thinking of adding a pic of a melon to the To Do title.... a honey dew melon.... get it?  Get it?  Hmmm, not sure Chris will appreciate it either!! LOL

Clever eh?  Just need to find the papers I want to use on it...

On my other desk are a couple of ampersands I found... as soon as I have time I am going to have a go at changing their appearance!! ;)  In the front of those is the cardboard from a new set of sheets... I unwrapped the sheets and pulled the cardboard out and looked at it.... yep... it looks just like a book!  I grabbed the cardboard and headed off to the scrap room with it... only found the sheets discarded on the bed a couple of hours later... you know you have a problem when everything looks like the makings of a book...

Here is a close up of the ATC book.  Graphic 45 Curtain Call papers... 

I have put a normal paper page between each set of the ATC holder pages.

I put these together quickly because I didn't like empty pages looking back at me!!

Another paper page...

and another quick set for the book!

Don't forget to pop on over to the Queen of the Desk Inspectors... Julia, to check out the list!!

WOYWW 101

Another week disappears in a flash and its time to reveal the state of my desk.... which actually looks pretty similar to last weeks desk because I am still working on the book I am making using the Graphic45 Curtain Call papers...

I am at least on the home stretch and the fun bit of it now.  I'm not sure how other people make their albums but I do it in layers... pages, backgrounds papers, photo mats, ribbon, lace, chipboard all gets done in a sequence so all my pages tend to be in the same stage of progression... I am now at the 'add the fun bits and bling it' stage.

Now it is all bound and easier to work with...

I love the way that bird cage turned out... all glittery and golden!

I have a niece in Paris who went to drama school for about 7 years and I figure this would be a perfect way to display all the photos she has of different plays and shows she has been in.... so the call has gone out to email me the photos... hopefully she will manage to translate the email and actually send me the pics but I have learned through experience that I could be waiting a looooong time!! LOL

The papers are so beautiful it is hard to actually chop them up or cover them up so I have gone the route of using them as flaps and lift ups to reveal the photo mats and journalling spots.

Loads of space to add the pics and story...

Have used lots of pockets for tags and envelopes...

and another pocket pages with envelopes...

and I made this clapperboard to go with the movie theme...

which contains a pull out with extra pages and mats for pics and journalling.

Pop on over to Julia's for the linky list of desks to snoop about in!!

I won't be here for the next two Wednesdays as Chris is taking me on my very first cruise!!  Wooo Hooo!  We are off to New Orleans and then pick up the cruise ship which is going to take us to Costa Maya, Mexico, Belize, Roatan, Honduras, Cozumel and back to Mexico.... and we are going to swim with dolpins!! I will try and get online and blog some pics of the sunshine and stuff.... ;)