Lone Pine Designs: Flower Diary

Lone Pine Designs

"Lone Pine Designs" originated when I first moved to America in 2005 from Australia. My mother in Australia called our new home in NH "Lone Pine" as she wanted my new home, which is surrounded by pine trees, to have an Australian name. The Battle of Lone Pine is a very famous successful Australian battle which took place during the Gallipoli war in Turkey in 1915. It was called The Battle of Lone Pine for the solitary pine tree standing in the middle of the battlefield which surprisingly remained standing at the end of the battle. After the tough few months leading up to our arrival here in America and surviving the first year in a new country I felt like that pine tree still standing in the battlefield. It was in 2006 when I started to sell my work on Ebay that I decided that Lone Pine Designs would be the perfect name for this new endeavour in my life.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Flower Diary

For my Floral Friday post today I thought I would share my Flower Diary and remind you all about the challenge I'm hosting. The challenge is to alter a notebook and you can see all the details HERE!

As part of the Floral Design course I'm doing, I have been encourage to keep a flower diary...a place to record information about the flowers I'm working with for future reference. For this notebook I actually removed the front and back covers and replaced them with chipboard wood covers for more stability. I decorated them and used my Bind-it-All to punch the holes and put new binding on it. The finished notebook measures 10" x 7 1/4".