When I Am An Old Lady

When I Am An Old Lady - Budgie

Here are some photos of latest book When I Am An Old Lady made for Book Art Object. All the text was done on my Typewriter - not easy - there were plenty of screechy bits!  All images are hand stamped.

The idea for this book came from things I said I was going to do when I am an old lady - starting with - When I am an old lady I will have a blue rinse and a 1950's Hairdo like the Queen...and the rest just followed from there.

When I Am An Old Lady - Blue Rinse


I hand stamped the cover also. The first time I've managed to do this sucessfully. I made a slip cover and matching endpapers with a feather image. The feather image was created by putting a pile of found feathers on my scanner and scanning them at a high resolution.

I would never have chosen these light colours (book cloth and endpapers) but I was on a bookbinding course at UWE last year and used a similar colour book cloth and really liked it. I also thought that this was good 'old lady' palette ;-)

When I Am An Old Lady - Book In Slipcover
Book in Slip Cover


When I Am An Old Lady - Cover
Hand Stamped Cover
 

When I Am An Old Lady - Jasper

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