Advice to clever children

This book is altered.

my sister-in-law, Bev Powell, had a wonderful collection of art books. We stayed with her at some point in 2006 or 2007. I saw a book about altered books and fell in love with the idea.

This is my first attempt at an altered book.

I split pages to make little doors, and glued some together. I added photographs from magazines, like this angel, and pieces stationery from my Japanese paper collection. I was already colonising, so I had a fair number of supplies excavation point

I even created a niche! Staying with the Japanese theme.

never got around to doing anything with the cover except whiting out some of the titles.

Enmore buildings

This was one of my first snake books. 

I used an old 2d work, and i know now that the paper was too thick. 

I backed it with a map of Queensland roads. The original work was collage and acrylic. The photographs were some old building in Enmore.

Gave some interesting stuff, which taught me a lot!

That's the word "cold" from the top of a tap.

Slope cards

When I learnt to write cursive they gave us all slope cards.

When I cleared out my mum's stuff in 2007ish I found a store of them (she used to teach). 

The photos look good. The present wrapping ribbon wasn't the best binding material. I still have this book and I intend to re-use it (is it an altered book if i made the book myself originally?).

This was done around 2007. I've sewn on all kinds of things: 

stamps and small fish 

some of my mum's old music from teaching (paw paw patch was a dance and song we learnt in primary school), and some buttons

a rubbing from Sturt (i have a favourite man hole cover there)

some old sewing pattern

A newsagent's bag (the pinky/purple below) and some letter beads I bought at Sturt one year. 

I spent ages decorating each page. I feel it's not really finished, and it will be re-modelled.

The back of the slope card had instructions on how to sit, hold the pen and the angle of the page.