Two fabbies from Lesley Magwood Fraser

[Marie Wintzer]

The most beautiful envelope and card arrived yesterday. Handmade paper with an amazing texture. Did you make this paper yourself Lesley? The dried flowers seem to be partly embedded in it, and the print of the feather looks like a petroglyph, a precious archaeological finding. The rough/smooth textures are all kinds of wow, I wonder how she printed the feather to get this effect. The white (smooth) part feels a bit like plaster? Anyway, I love it!
The back of the card is a pencil drawing. Is Inkukhu the owner of the feather? Is it a Yangiluma Inkukhu? :-))

 

Like it wasn't fab enough, another envelope from Lesley made it to my mailbox that day. Just a few days back I noticed one of the cards of the same series on her blog and told her it was really nice :-)) So, once again, I find the best in my mailbox. I like the buttons on the doors, and the drawing/painting is great as usual. The text, is it yours, Lesley? (I couldn't track it back to an author).
Thank you Lesley, I was really happy to receive these two super goodies from you! (and that paper, still wow..)

[Marie Wintzer]

That page is indeed gone ;-( You're right, they must have other cats to whip (that's what we say in France) up there in Zim.

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

I have asked firends up in Zim to source paper for me but it is very hard to find now, I think the people are battling to survive let alone make paper. The website I had is non existant now-  www.africanhandmadepaper.com  Yangiluma Inkukhu?? I have never seen a chicken bite! Definitely a Zulu story...

[Marie Wintzer]

Good morning SA girls! Another rainy morning over here, but feeling better. Cheryl, thanx for pipelining something for me before Cape Town!! Lesley, I'm starting to think that Zimbabwe is producing better paper than Japan! I haven't seen anything like this around here. Thanx for explaining the technique, I'm always interested in the "how". When I googled "Inkukhu" this song "Yangiluma Inkukhu" came up. Apparently it means "biting chicken"?

Vasbyt Yangiluma Inkukhu :-))))

[cheryl penn]

FAB blog for FAB work :-) You're both such excellenters :-) I am also the proud owner of Where are those songs - right now they're living in their book. Marie - I got to the P.O :-) X

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

Oh thankyou Marie! You always make my day. The paper and envelope I bought ages ago in Zimbabwe, it had the flower embedded in it already. I glued the feather print on, it was some old tissue paper, and added the acrylic gesso (the white plaster effect) and printed the chickens. Inkukhu is Zulu for chicken! What does Yangiluma mean? Is it Japanese? You always use such interesting papers that I had to send you some too! The poem is from one of my daughter's old school poetry books, the author is Micere Githae Mugo, a Kenyan poet who was a Professor of Literature at the Univ of Zimbabwe. :)