Something new!!

I attended a brooch making class in Saffron Walden this morning. Great fun and most interesting!! The process involves covering wooden buttons with Japanese paper and includes old buttons. The brooch that I made is bottom right in the picture.

I bought some wooden buttons, but they are so nice I don’t know if I want to cover them, also they are so expensive (£4 for the big one)!! You can cover plastic ones, so might give that a try. The Japanese paper is also expensive, £10 for a sheet slightly smaller than a sheet of wrapping paper.

Seeing what was being used reminded me of a pack of paper that I was given at an ISPOG conference in Edinburgh 10 years ago. The Japanese society was hosting the following conference so were advertising and giving small Japanese gifts!!

I knew the paper was somewhere safe in the house. Just goes to prove that if you keep something long enough you will find a purpose for it. I have just opened the pack for the first time and the papers are beautiful.

Dashed home after the class to attend my afternoon threads group session.