A small yellow fabric book

So, I have to show you this small fabric book that I surprised Suzanne with the other day:

It is a compilation of vintage fabrics, ribbon, trims, and buttons...with a few extras!

As I told Suzanne, I always think of her when I am working with the color yellow.  She is a very sunny kind of person!

I embellished this page with vintage crochet lace and a piece of vintage enamel jewelry: daisies!

I sewed this button that I got in Kansas, along with this tiny license from Kansas, all onto a piece of vintage fabric with an old car motif -- to remind her of all our road-tripping in that fair state!

I made this book, only my third or fourth one, using what I have come to call my 'method'; I search for bits of fabric with lovely decoration, sew two pieces together as a front and back page using a sewing machine and then add trim and everything else by hand.

Once I've finished edging with trim, I begin to embellish with old fabric, lace, buttons, and whatever else I can find!  Aren't those tiny flower buttons amazing?

Somehow, this vintage paper umbrella, meant for cocktails, found its way into Suzanne's book!

It is so much fun to go through all my pretty fabrics and such to find coordinating pieces to use as embellishments!

This ribbon with buttons was actually a bookmark given to me at a button club meeting.

This is the back cover; it consists of a vintage table runner, vintage lace, a row of vintage yellow buttons, some fancy embroidered stitches, and, like the front cover, knotted yellow antique seam binding.

Here's that front cover again -- I wanted to point out that it is actually three layers: the front and back fabric, and then I inserted a beautiful piece of embroidered ribbon over which I layered organza.  I love the soft look of it; the ribbon is special, as it was a gift from Terri.  I finished it off with the palest of pale yellow flowers plucked from a vintage hat.