I’m still decluttering my studio, which is taking forever: I have so much stuff in there. Yesterday I rediscovered a pack of replica vintage garden ephemera that I bought at the Chelsea Flower Show many years ago. I’ve used a few bits from it, but the rest had been chucked in a drawer and forgotten about. I’ve chosen a few cards with which to decorate my studio, and today I turned the remaining bits and bobs into a notebook.
Let’s just take a moment to appreciate how useful a curved needle can be, especially when one is binding envelopes into a book.
I ended up using the biggest garden leaflet to make the cover (which is lined with card from some posh shirt packaging that came into my possession), the leftover garden bits and some repurposed paper (brown paper that had been used as packaging in something I received in the post, and some squared paper from an old maths exercise book) became the pages. I found some old envelopes lurking in another drawer so those got thrown in too. It’s turned out beautifully!
