weekly make #38

I made an adjustment to an existing picture:

I also made progress on my new book, I Walk With Freer Step, and, among other things, a new picture:

The Mistletoe Bough

Whilst scouring old books for words to collage recently, I stumbled across a great story. G. M. Valois, in Antiques and Curious in our Homes, was regaling his readers with some scintillating facts and figures about bridal coffers and wood worm when he recounts the story of the Mistletoe Bough:

It all fits on one long page because I photoshopped two pages together; rest assured the content remains exactly as printed in the book. I like Vallois' telling of the story a lot, but then I just looked it up on Wikipedia and that spoiled it. So, don't do that!

weekly make #37

After what is fast becoming a fairly typical day at work:

weekly makes #s 35 & 36

So I didn't post anything last week because I spent ages trying to assemble the preface for my new book I Walk With Freer Step and couldn't get it right. After another week it still isn't finished but it's getting there: 

 

In the process I came across enough good words to assemble a new diagram poem, this one inspired by the evangelists that haunt Tooting Broadway underground station on Saturday afternoons:

That's one good looking theological knee jerk!