My friend Ruaidhri (pronounced Rory) is turning 21 this weekend.
I made her a 21 page concertina for friends to write well-wishes into at the party.
I recorded the video portrait but youtube defaulted to a short, and I didn’t want that (I didn’t like that i could not stop people re-using my content, am I a pig?).
So you see the video in landscape mode.
The features:
- 21 pages
- Nicola’s offcut / extra ink pieces made it
- pirate ship stamps because we’re Shanties buddies
- A little stamp I clearly bought years ago and have rarely used, saying it’s an original because she is priceless.
I need more stamp ink – my lovely chocolate brown ink is more than 15 years old, and it’s therefore somewhat dried up. That said I rarely use stamps.
I began her name in stamps, but i’m out of town and only brought one set of alphabet with me, one that Nicola bought years ago, and the glue keeping the letters onto the wooden bits has deteriorated. I have an idea this afternoon that I might therefore just make a nonsense collection of the little rubber bits and create my own stamp – i have 5 x alphabets in stamps now anyway.
