Do You Ever Get Over a First Love?

Coptic binding... my first love, that I've neglected for so long. But now I returned to it, I love this technique! But I didn't returned empty handed - I am well prepared and armed with some gorgeous papers I've been collecting for awhile... I felt bad actually that all this beautiful things kept waiting in the closet for the big day.
So here they are, my babies:

The first one has its cover made from black Japanese paper with an elegant golden geometric pattern, for the second I used black parchment paper screen-printed with golden flowers, and the red one is dressed up in the best quality Japanese Yuzen Chiyogami paper, with gold little flowers.
They are listed in my shop, if you want to take this beauties away from me :)

My Happy Birthday

Yeap, today is my birthday, hurraaay! Since last year, I decided, each year I will celebrate my 28th birthday - so I am once again 28, and I'll stick to that age. I've been partying since morning and the party is still going. Lots of gifts and flowers, which I rushed to preserve for eternity and for some handmade paper with pressed flowers :) I've been pressing flowers for awhile now, waiting for the big day when I'll actually make handmade paper. The blue ones in the picture are so sweet and they come out so nice when pressed, that I've pressed thousands! The only disadvantage is I can only justify all my hours of work with a tiny little box where these fit.