i totally forgot to post the b.day present i got from my 3 men on tuesday. it was a cd-collection of one of my favorite bands – the grateful dead. last year i got the other volume… i so love this, as i only had most of the songs on record albums and my recordplayer is no longer working.

ich hab total verschwitzt, meine freude über mein geburtstagsgeschenk (letzten dienstag) raus zu posaunen: meine 3 männer haben mir eine sammlung von grateful dead – cds geschenkt (letztes jahr hatte ich schon die andere hälfte bekommen). ich freu mich total darüber, denn das ist eine meiner lieblingsbands und ihre lieder auf platte kann ich nicht mehr abspielen wg. defektem plattenspieler…

i finished the songbook (for the moment; maybe i will add more pages from time to time). you can see it at my picturetrail in the album songbook grateful dead.

another page in the songbook. the next ones are easy to do, as i have prepared the dye-inking and text-copying. even the pics are mostly at hand. just have to pick up some stamps and finish the pages:)

so this is the page of “china doll”. will make holes on the left for binding.
used various stamps, fiber (drawn through eyelets), rickrack and a pic from my large amount of doll-pics. the black german scrap and the golden charm at the bottom of the fibers are from artchix.
(the pic is quite huge, so go to the enlargement sign at the right bottom of the pic to see it clearly;)

when i made a fabric book about grateful dead last year, i decided to make a songbook of their music, too and ordered 2 faux licence plates of the band (see below). they should become the covers of the songbook. recently i found them again under a huge stash of other stuff and decided it´s really time to start now!!
the holes at the side will be perfect for binding (and i have some steal-your-face shoelaces therefore! deadheads know what i´m talking about and all others will see. soon, hopefully;)

i tinted some sheets of cardstock with dye ink and printed songs of the dead on them. today i began to embellish the first one – the song “china girl”. will upload it instantly…