Glossy postcards peel off the card backing quite easily, and so use up less space in the book. The page on the left is just the page-no relevance to the holiday. I painted it and it just sat in a drawer with no purpose until it became a page in Erewhon.
This is Elgol, and the rocks I found there. The black one is so smooth.
Such a dramatic drive to get there.

Felted balls I made while away, An absolutely gorgeous and cuddly looking bull, and a refelceted mountain.

Weird Little Beach FInd and a Fairy Flag

The beach find is like horsetail in the way it joins together but seems to be made of a calcium like substance. Perhaps it is fossilised horsetail! I found some on another beach, but didn't keep it as it fell apart. I was more careful with this piece, which I found on the beach near the house. I stuck it to the see through tracing paper page on the back of a sticky pogo print. It has lasted remarkably well so far. Dunvegan is the ancestral home of Clan MacLeod. The most interesting thing, I thought, was the Fairy Flag, which has a number of stories attached to it about its origin. Wherever it came from, it has been held as a good luck symbol for the MacLeods since they acquired it, and has traditionally been taken into battle with them. All that remains of the flag is a very fragile piece of cloth, now encased in a frame behind glass.

Here is my version, using a little ripped section of sari fabric. The remaining piece of flag has little circular red darned patches. The portrait is one of the lairds of the clan and is cut out of a postcard.

Sunsets, Beaches and Herons

There were lovely sunsets each evening, and, where we were staying, on Broadford Bay, was perfect for viewing them. The house had a little conservatory so you could sit and enjoy the view even when it was getting chilly, or the midges were biting!

This page is photos from our walk to the coral beach. Not really coral, but algae doing a good impression. From a distance it looks like white sand, but up close there are thousands of tiny coral like pieces mixed with shells-also tiny.

More wildlife. You can see the back of a ticket to Dunvegan castle as the page is tracing paper. It is useful as you can see both sides of things such as tickets.

Holiday Pages

I used the Pogo printer a lot on holiday. There were so many lovely scenes of sea, sky and mountains, and so many birds to photograph too. The little dog on this page is called Ella and was a very naughty little dog! She loved chasing the birds so had a lot of fun and didn't come back very quickly when called.
We went to a place where fairies lived in the trees-felt fairies I might add. Skye has many stories about fairies and I wrote some of my favourite ones down.
We saw some good rainbows too. The other side of this page is made from wrapping paper-as was the egg page the other day. I love this paper and didn't want to cover it up!

More creatures. A hooded crow, common gull, oyster catcher, rabbit, heron and wagtail.

Skye Holiday

The view from our holiday cottage.

2nd attempt at the view!

The faces are from a book of Holbein pictures. The first is on a tracing paper page so I coloured underneath with pastel chalks. The writing is recording some of the mileage and distances on our holiday. It was a very long drive! The next load of pages will all be holiday ones so I will do a few a day I think.

Bad Science

A cinema ticket from the summer-I loved this film! Then on the other side I was trying out a suddenly realised thing-which I am pretty sure other people have thought about, but somehow it never struck me. That is, that the colours of the rainbow mix to make secondary colours in between the pairs. Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. As in red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue-green and violet and blue-indigo(I think!) It isn't perfect, as purple is not there. I suppose the colours are not mixing really as the rainbow is light split up into colours, but it makes sense to me!