Last Saturday, Sue gave wonderful instructions for making a match book to begin a project as part of the special challenge weekend on CBC. Throughout the weekend, further instructions were added for the remainder of the project.
I decided to leave this towards the end of the challenges.
As it's our wedding anniversary tomorrow, I thought I'd make the match book for John.
Most of those who read my blog (and I am grateful that you do) will know that John's guide dog, Josey, returned to Guide Dogs because of the problems John was having with his feet and other health issues - she is now early retired.
So this a special little book all about Josey (and one day soon I'll make one about Oscar - John's guide dog before Josey).
I'm not sure that I made the book exactly to the instructions. I put the brads inside to hold the pages and I put some velcro on the front to enable the book to be closed.
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We were asked to incorporate a star into the 1st or 2nd page:
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And a heart into the 3rd and 4th page:
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and a button into pages 5 and 6:
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Pages 7 and 8 had to incorporate wording:
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I added a picture to the underneath piece:
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Sue asked us to make a pocket and tags, on which we could do some journalling or other photos. There is some journalling on these tags (a bit soppy, so I'm not showing it):
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and the back is very simple:
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I mainly used papers and wording from K & Company Brookfield, plus other bits and pieces.
Thank you, Sue for such a wonderful challenge that enabled me to make something a little big special for John about his special friend that he still misses.
I have to confess that I couldn't wait till tomorrow, so I gave it to him a little while ago. It's not something he can easily see, but with the help of a magnifying glass or his CCTV machine he can appreciate it - and it's something he can keep and come back to.