Finally Pictures!

 Well, we're coming right along now that our fine little camera has arrived! Whoohoo! Fujifilm Finepix P60EXR you are fine. Still experimenting, so these pictures could be better, but I just picked it up at 3 pm today so give me a little bit of time.

To the right you see Hereswith, in progress, She is completely needlefelted over an armature. I thought some might enjoy seeing the process of wrapping the fleece/roving with a yarn and then it's just the monotony of piercing over and over and over again with a single felting needle. Ouch! Yes, you do get stabbed and it does hurt, but oh the pleasure seeing what you can do! Her headress is a single vertebrae found one day while hiking. I am now researching her clothing which will try to emulate that of the 12th C.

 This is the front cover of the paperbag journal. It is an experimental encaustic type process with melted old crayon bits on a griddle found at the thrift shop. The grasses are scratched into the waxy surface. It looks better than I have captured so perhaps I'll rephotograph it later. When it isn't almost 2 am and I am anxiously waiting for my boys to return from the US safe and sound. Please.

The binding is stab stitch. I used waxed perle coton.

Open to page 2 and 3 and sadly, upside down. Ooops missed that.

 Map envelope open to show 2 maps completed and waxed. To the right is the map envelope closed and tied.

A view of the map of Holy Island where Hereswith now lives.

The Map of the Region where Hereswith is comfortable and over which she has travelled for many years.

 Flipping back into the journal another spread, again upside down.

More pages.

And still more pages. Notice that the pages are revealing a neat little hidey place for flattish treasures.

Oh well, I am tired and it is time to stand guard at the front door waiting to snap pictures of my very tired guys.

More to come.