Wednesday 29 May 2013

Atlas flowers


Flowers... made from a very out-of-date road atlas. Stems yet to be attached.

I love making these - it's repetitive and absorbing and therapeutic. I made some last year from book pages but I have a thing for maps and atlases. There's a big printed map of Nantucket propped against the bedroom wall which I bought as a memento from the Whaling Museum and is now beautifully framed. And the other day I was at a friend's house and spotted a very covetable geological map of the British Isles.


I stash more atlas/globe projects on one of my Pinterest pages - for future reference. I suspect no map which now comes into my possession will be safe.

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  1. Lovely flowers, lovely photos.

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  2. These are brilliant - so clever! The map paper works really well. xx

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    1. Thanks - they're also addictive to make! Will be scouring charity shops for suitable snippable pages...

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  3. This is such a great idea. I love maps too, old or new, and find them both interesting and nice to look at. x

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    1. I'd love to paper a wall with an oversize map. Maybe one for the baby's room one day...

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  4. have you seen today's guardian ? this week's "lets move to " in the weekend mag is Rammy ! we were all thrilled to bits !
    appropo maps, son number 3 did a geology degree and had to make an enormous map himself as part of his final year, it is a thing of beauty (even though i cannot really read it) and we had it framed for him later ,at clarkecraft actually, and it is now got pride of place in a storage unit somewhere awaiting him getting a new flat !
    i have an old copy of and old map of lancashire on our dining room wall alongside an extract of the millennium map. can't say i have ever made flowers from a map though, maybe if you teach us how
    susan xx

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  5. Ooh, that map sounds nice... I'll probably end up online at some point buying something interesting map-wise.

    Jay's auntie mentioned the Let's Move To article - hopefully it won't push house prices up too much for those of us hoping to return in the not-too-distant future!

    I could show you the paper-folding sometime. Could maybe meet in Rammy for cake when I'm next there in an afternoon and Jay could take Joe for a wander in the pram. In the meantime there are instructions here: http://www.fancypantsweddings.com/how-to-make-paper-map-flowers-real-northern-california-wedding-amber/

    Have a go - you just need a cheap road atlas and some paper glue :)

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