Thursday, September 23, 2010

portrait of a lady




i redid the life portrait carousel album from a workshop i gave last month.  when the mock up was done, i figured to perfected the binding and thought i would also make one for myself.


 second picture is the revamped binding with internal spine to reinforce support

originally i was going to put my younger days pictures.  then, my mother's best friend of more than 50 years is asking me to help her collect old family pictures.  she's making a video memoir for my mother's birthday present in november.  as i was looking at those vintage pictures, i immediately decided to use some of them for this carousel album instead.




  
i use mostly webster's pages' life's portrait papers and use punches and shape scissors to build the album and embellishments. on the revamped version, i made some minor changes on the inside...just because.  


cover

back

 top view

page 1


a short path in an  abounding life journey of an amazing lady...

 page 2


 a life so full, the tale has no end in the telling of it...

page 3


here is recorded some snapshots of the only lady i've always admired...

 page 4


 my mother.


page 5

the weather hasn't been kind and i couldn't get the right natural light for the pictures.  so i took the detail page shots with no justice still.
















 





owkay...insisted by my uncle, she wi-fied the house.  she's internet illiterate still.  i'm off to show her this on her ipad.  good lord!

1 comment:

Anita Abdulkadir said...

Collete,
I love your album potrait of a lady.....it'a amazing!
Can I put your blog on my links? Please :-)