My friend Dan turned 31 on Sunday.
He had a lovely party on Saturday night, mostly Shanty people, so we sang and played instruments for 4 or 5 hours.
As is my wont when i have the time I made him a book as a birthday gift, as a kind of card. This time 31 pages.
I used envelopes Avril gave me recently (what can you do with envelopes? she asked).
In the same vein the Envelope Series).
​Interesting and intelligent people have mentioned to me that they are stumped when it comes to what to write in a birthday card, other than “happy birthday”, so I set them a task: to write something they liked about Dan on a card, and then insert it into the book.
What it seemed to do was allow them privacy: I saw no one rifling through the other people’s words.
I am yet to hear how Dan liked it, but i hope it made him feel loved, because he certainly is!
To stick the envelopes together I made some navy blue bands which ran along the back of the concertina. It still seemed under-decorated, so I found my fleur-de-lys stamp and my Adirondack Espresso coloured stamp pad and put that on the front (and back).
