In Lisbon recently, we visited the flea market in the Alfama district, a colourful and bustling location, and I found these attractive 1960s embroidery and tapestry patterns, which open up to large poster size and could possibly be framed as such.
I covered some notebooks with one of them, and am now taking inspiration from an image of a pretty flower basket from the cover of another to make a series of collages using stamps from many countries. The stamps I'm using for the borders are from Ukraine and all depict leaves and fruits. To create the basket work for two of my collages, I've used George VI definitives which have a great pattern, almost like wickerwork .
Flowers and foliage are cut from stamps with floral images, or made in the shapes of leaves and flowers. It's a work in progress, but at least I've made a start after a period of artist's 
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