Today I almost don't know where to start. Every now and then it happens that I make something I fall in love with. Of course I like pretty much everything I make, or I wouldn't be making it in the first place, and I also get excited and gush a little maybe a bit too often, but it's not often that I'm this happy about how something turned out (okay, the spool lady last week was pretty great, too, so maybe I'm simply on a roll, now).

So, I'm not sure what to say without getting all over enthused. I'll keep this short and sweet: This tin is small - 6,4x4x1,2cm / 2.5"x1.6"x0.5". It's the first thing on which I've used one of these great stamp-sized photos (I bought a big lot a while ago and forgot all about them until I tidied up my studio) - you can probably expect to see more of them in the near future. It's also the first piece I felt was worth cutting up an ordnance survey map for (I place a treasure status on some of my supplies quite irrationally - it's not like the world will run out of old maps, even though I might). While making this piece I did notice I should definitely be on the lookout for more paper ephemera to be used on collages, so maybe there's a valid reason I hold my maps so dear. The fear of running out of anything is a terrifying fear...

I hope you had a peaceful Easter whether or not you paid any mind to it! We acknowledged Easter by munching on chocolate eggs, but that's it. A more meaningful event was that we turned the clocks forward during the weekend, so with more daylight in the evening it instantly feels more like spring (I'm never awake to enjoy the light early in the morning, so I'm on the winning side even though I'd rather not turn clocks at all). I hope I get a creative surge out of the light instead of weariness from losing an hour. There's a huge stack of Coptic bound books waiting to be sewn, so I know where that creative surge should be aimed at, should it arrive!