Bits and Pieces
Dear RG, I have tried to email you, but my message has been returned as “undeliverable”. In answer to your questions – Yes, you may. No, I don’t mind you asking – if you don’t ask, you will never know...
View ArticleThis is a Paper Palace – Evaline Ness
This is a Paper Palace to Cut Out and ColorDesigned by Evaline NessISBN 0-684-14708-4 My mother gave this book to me way back in the mid 1970s. She had come across it in a cut-price bookshop that used...
View ArticleNativity 2013
I made these nativity sets last March and have been trying to get a “nice” photo of a finished one ever since. So far the best I have come up with has been rather blurred… The best that I can hope...
View ArticleVictorian Advertising – a Typographer’s Heaven
I came across some advertisements at the back of a Victorian book of fairy stories and loved the fabulous use of different lettering. There are eight (in miniature) on this pdf -...
View ArticlePaper Model Kiosk – Nativity Downloads
This is going to sound rushed, because I am supposed to be doing something else this morning, but I saw this and I thought it was too good to miss. Paper Model Kiosk (aka Crechemania) have a very...
View ArticleWhen Short of Time, Make a List
The Not Very Encouraging News My camera is not working reliably My little home printer is not working at all Result: no paper projects to do on this blog until above are fixed or replaced The Good News...
View ArticleFun but Messy
These date from a time when I was trying to fit many Christmas decorations into a very small space. Glue two sheets of thin card (140gsm each) together Glue the paper pattern (photocopy paper,...
View ArticleA M Davis – Farmhouse and Garden
2017 ! How did it get to be 2017 ? I didn’t think it had been that long since I wrote something for this blog. There should be a nice photograph here. But I don’t have a camera at the moment and the...
View ArticleA M Davis – Cut and Colour Farm Set
(Apologies for the poor quality photo. Mission: BUY A CAMERA THAT WORKS is in progress.) There is something about the original set of cards for this farm set that baffles my scanner. The full-size...
View ArticleCards by Fiddler’s Green and Shaberay
The trouble is that, although are a great many things that I would like to do, I don’t have a great deal of spare time at the moment. In addition to this, as soon as I make a plan, it seems to me that...
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