The Maroon Diaries

My mum loved the bunting I made from children's book pages, and she asked me to make her some cards with pieces of similar pages. I didn't want to buy new cardboard and matching envelopes to make a set, though, that would be going against my buy-(almost) nothing-new guidelines. But then I found a set of ten matching cards, new and unopened, in an op shop. They had pictures on the front and logos on the back, but the insides are blank. So, this is what I came up with. I covered the logos on the back with some scraps of book pages or wrapping paper. Each card has its own matching square envelope, with the postcard squares and everything. Schmick. And there we go, that's a project finished that I started years ago and have been meaning to get around to finishing one day for all the time in between. Satisfaction feels! 

Haha you thought I'd forgotten, didn't you! No, it's not that, but my procrastination is rotten. My book reading habits are also still suffering terribly at the hands of social media. But anyway, here we are. 1. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite 1992 2. Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing by Daniel Tammet 2017 3. The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet by Dr Michael Mosley 2015 4. Soul by Tobsha Learner 2006 5. Aspecting the Goddess by Jane Meredith 2018 6. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 2001 7. My Mother's House by Colette 1922, English translation by Una Vincenzo Troubridge and Enid McLeod 1949, and Sido , 1929, English translation by Enid McLeod 1949, published in one volume 1953 8. Witchcraft into the Wilds by Rachel Patterson 2018 9. The Clever Guts Diet by Dr Michael Mosley 2017 10. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, 1987 - ?, collected and translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers 2009