Altered Books

I was asked to do a presentation at today's Altered Book Workshop at Topeka & Shawnee Co Public Library. Handy that I work there. About 20 people came to see a couple of my gourds where I used pages from old books to embellish the gourd. One was using decoupage and the other something new (for me) I'm playing with - paper beads. I had little kits for them all to try both techniques out. Here is the gourd that I used several paper beads on. They came from pages in an old Shakespeare text book.