Monday 1st July

 It always seems right that the first of the month should be on a Monday. An auspicious day for beginning things.

I've got an art challenge going with a friend; it might last the month or we might change our minds.

The plan is to deface a book (shock horror) with a doodle or drawing or collage or anything Monday-Friday in July. Obviously one doesn't want to deface a good book, but something that's not valuable or important would do. I've chosen an out of date Persephone books catalogue, dating back to 2012. It's good, because it has pages with a mix of text, photographs and artwork, but not so good because it is low quality paper. 

I prepped the book yesterday, glueing the first two and large pages together to make a stronger cover. I've also added a pocket inside the front cover to store scraps for adding to a collage and made a start on today's page.

Today's also the first day of the new collaboration! Scary and exciting! I've been having a look in my scraps and remnants box for ideas...

That blue flowery print, at the bottom comes from a bridesmaid's dress I wore in 1977... I turned it into a l9ng skirt, and then a shorter skirt, and now it's become scraps.