Here we go. Index-card-a-day challenge for the last two days. Using 4″ x 6″ cards.

#6: Taxi  

My wizards do not allow a ferry to bring people to their island, so the journey is by boat or by dragon (or the few magic doors). Used patterned and plain papers, gel pen, double-sided foam, matchstick, gel pen, dried up ink pad, willpower.

#7: Periodic Table

What? Yes, that’s what I pondered for days leading up to this one. So here we have a periodic table which has somehow come through the magical barrier. Used cut out magazine hand, cardstock, paper, teabag, gel pen, printed periodic table.

Yes, folks – surprise, surprise – magic is failing. I didn’t think I really needed to know the mechanics of that until the next novel. But, when I drew the map last week, the limits magically materialized. Bingo. Now I can foreshadow it, as I should.

The coming week is interesting – the prompts are all foodstuffs.

I hope the Aussies have had a nice long weekend for the Queen’s Birthday. Does anyone else celebrate this on this weekend? Well, I don’t actually even think of the Queen, let alone think of birthday wishes – but I love the holiday.

Saturday was our 23rd wedding anniversary, but I don’t really count that either. We actually began living together 25 years this coming Christmas. To me, that’s our real anniversary.

Have a nice day / evening. ❤

I did both cards to-day to catch up.

# 4: Mailbox.  In my fantasy word we don’t have mailboxes. The postmaster pops your name in the local newspaper if you have mail, and you send along some money for it to be delivered – or you pay and pick up yourself. This is a bit of actual text from an early Sydney newspaper (1809).

#5: Owl.  Well, this is a bit iffy. It’s a bit askew. I got annoyed with it halfway through.

I printed out a cropped photo from online, then cut it into pieces to use as templates for the coloured paper. Not very subtle. [sigh] But it is growing on me. As well as the paper, I used a black gel pen, liquid paper and gold foil.