One pocket full, now between the dictionary pages to flatten for a project for my Noticing journal. I'm curious to discover if they will retain their colors if sealed under a layer of matte medium.
To fit in with my forever CIRCLES theme, I also found this beautiful card of buttons at a thrift shop.
Red and yellow leaves and cards of buttons, both remind me of my childhood in Georgia, along with the smell of backyard piles of leaves burning, some man wearing a straw hat overseeing his bonfire holding a rusty rake.
Carlene made every garment I ever wore, and we spent happy hours in the fabric department of McConnels perusing buttons, patterns, zippers and cloth.
I bought my 1982 Miriam Webster dictionary for 75 cents at a thrift shop. Before online dictionaries took over, these books were heavy as bricks and illustrated with fine little drawings and photographs.
After folding pages for a handmade book, you need to press the signatures overnight under a brick or heavy book, and this dictionary with two cookbooks on top is my presser.
Looking for a particular shape or color on a walk is---I kid you not!--as much fun as discovering jewels in a haystack might be. The scavenger hunt nature of looking FOR something gives an added layer of enjoyment to walking the dog. While she's sniffing every bush and twig for evidence that another animal has been here before her, I'm collecting little treasures to take home.
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