I have a chronic need to start from scratch. I try to fight it, but inevitably end up succumbing to the urge. Take the twelve weeks holiday art making journey, which I embarked upon earlier in the month. I started making a Halloween banner, but couldn’t possibly use anything ready made—oh no. Instead, I had to design all my papers from scratch, then rip them to pieces to make the banner and coasters. And obviously, to design the papers from scratch, I had to get some new, suitable ephemera.
The end result is that I went on a double spree—ephemera shopping, and paper designing. I now have probably more autumnal ephemera than I will ever use, and a large number of autumn papers of which I will probably use some bits and pieces between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Of course, the Halloween banner is still not finished (though the watercolour is drying as I write).
But at least the papers look pretty….