In late April my 92 year old Mother and my 84 year old Aunt are going on an overnight train trip from New Orleans to Washington D.C. They will be accompanied by my youngest Sister and my middle Brother. They will spend two nights in D.C. and return to New Orleans by train. A train trip is something Mother has always dreamed of doing. My Sister found little notes that Mother wrote about a train trip. She decided to make it happen.
That brings me to my current craft project. Small Travel Journals. My first task was to tea dye an assortment of paper. Done. I dried the tea bags to use both the dry tea and the bags to make faux homemade paper. That is tomorrow's project. Today I made paper fabric or is it fabric paper? Whatever. It is almost dry and looking good. I will use that to make pockets in the journals. I am using Domino Brown Sugar boxes for the covers. The journals will have dual signatures made from tea dyed paper. Brother's journal will have a faux leather cover. The other three will have faux handmade paper covers. Because the journals are very slim, I have to limit the embellishments. There will be pockets, a few journaling tags, some small pieces of decoupage.
It is easy to go overboard on embellishments. To avoid that I am making step by step process list for each journal.
Another project will be a travel journal for DIL. She is chaperoning a group of students on a trip to Rome in June.
It has been a few years since I have expressed my creativity in any way other than cooking. I am very jazzed. All of a sudden, my energy level has increased. I am out of bed arranging my material for the day's projects at 5 a.m.
I will share photos and progress.
guess I'll just have to knit another one, 
