For a tactile, edible looking cover design I used gingham contact paper over anaglypta wallpaper with colouful felt letters on top.
My inside tiltle page used the headers from a 1960s recipe book and a combination of foam, paper and plastic letters.
In his dreams Jack lived in a banana chew house on Lolly-Jar Lane.
The birds built their nests from chocolate twigs and rolled their eggs in powdered sugar.
In his dreams Else and Lil Kelvey from the chilly chalk house
lived in a cosy mushroom cottage with a peppermint garden.
The shopping mall in the city centre was a chocolate sandwich cake with cherries on top
and the tallest building in town was Frankies Wedding Cake Hotel with edible roses on every floor.
In his dreams Jack found the gingerbread house in the middle of the deep dark forest.
He fixed it up and made himself at home. And there he lived
happily and greedily ever after.
THE END
Image credits:
The boy in the bed is an illustration by Ezra Jack Keats from a battered picture book I found recently and the snowy scenes are by Richard Scarry. The lolly jars came from a recent photo-spread in Frankie magazine as did the images of the lovely ceramic dolls made by Argentinean artist Paola Zakimi. I hope she won't mind that I turned them into Else and Lil Kelvey, the poor sisters from my favourite Katherine Mansfield story, ' The Doll's House.' The pretty fabric birds are by English textile artist Emily Sutton, and the images came from a feature article in a World of Interiors magazine. The urban photographs are from a 1966 Time-Life photo book about modern American life that I found very troubling. The stern looking gentleman pictured at the bottom of the apartment block is Frank Lloyd-Wright. All the images of cakes and cookies came from an assortment of old recipe books.
The past couple of Sundays have been spent gathering props for the I Spy game that will be part of my Children's exhibition at Objectspace which is opening on 6 November. I'll be creating a full-scale cardboard shop frontage and displaying the 'I Spy' props inside a large perspex vitrine. There will be game sheets for the children to play with simple clues for the little ones and more cryptic clues for the older kids. 
The knitted and fabric animals are from my own collection, but the wooden wildlife has been kindly supplied by June and the nautical props have been borrowed from John. This is a particularly splendid ship in a bottle
and I couldn't resist putting my gnome brooch in this tiny wooden sail boat.
He looks pretty chuffed.
The baby's moved in with the robin and her eggs.
The owl likes his new rocking chair, but the giraffe seems a bit confused!
The felt angel and the shoemaker are having a nice time, and Zero, who loves the limelight, is starring in the sellout season of the Tortoiseshell Monologues in the world famous winebox theatre...
