Every morning Zahra and I lie in bed and chat about the day ahead. What we need to do and what we hope to do. While snuggling this morning Zahra came out with some of that six year old wisdom..."let's not plan anything, let's just see what the day brings". And so that's just what we did.
In amongst the baking, laundry, stories, drawing, visitors, music and phone calls I printed, sewed and pressed. A plant press to be more precise, for all the botanical treasures that always seem to find their way into our home from the garden and our walks.
My love of books means that not only have I progressed to a first name basis relationship with our regular postie van driver but that we also have a steady supply of cardboard. Cardborad that is perfect for my plant press plans. While I've been able to ignore the growing pile of book envelopes for the past four months the time came yesterday to make a dent in the stash.
With a makeshift press set up on the dining table this afternoon I found myself opening a fresh pot of relief ink and printing a plate I cut a few months back onto a piece of marine ply.
Then sewing some webbing to snap locks
To make a press for my little collections.
Cxo
