Japanese matchboxes

I have a collection of Japanese matchboxes and I am going to photograph them. They will go to the section under Japanese art: matchboxes on Pinterest, where I also collect up other people's matchboxes!

Tea Room Sakaeya

a hand printed paper

the match boxes are still boxes, I have photographed the surfaces and put together digitally

eventually I might post some more on this blog

old but new - stamps on my christmas cards

I've bought - and collected/saved lots of unused stamps, mainly Christmas, so as to give Christmas and birthday cards a bit of a different look.
Most of my Christmas stamps this year were from 1980 [there were many more sent but they had similar combinations]



previously - not such an ambitious project in 2010



I also make decorations and cards from old British stamps  - visit my Etsy shop [though it does need stocking up on stampy things]

P.S also lots of the envelopes were recycled from a 1999 report on creativity in schools

paper decorations #3 vintage decorations with a family history

from my childhood and beyond. crepe paper sewn with a gather, pull out from centre and a beautiful twist of paper garland. roll on right hand side, with tail, two colour
(the strip is half one & half another fading through different colours...) and made by my grandmother before I was born - 1950's. the rest were made by my mother when I was a baby  - early 60's and by my brother when we were early teens - mid to late 70's and replacements needed!

some old stuff & thrifty stuff in THIS SET OF IMAGES amongst the more new stuff

including: