Pages in Kathy's book

Kathy and I have the same shaped book. It was convenient when considering layouts, but her book was wider than mine, so the spreads were more proportional.

This is a four page spread that I connected using blue duct tape. This is an example of a spread that was never finished. Each time I got Kathy's book, I would rework something or add an image, or paint over something on these pages. I don't have photos of the finished spreads, but they don't look much like this, now. This is the outside.
This is the inside full spread before I made any changes.
Left side outer page looks nothing like this anymore. Kimonos are stickers.
Right side of spread. Far right looks nothing like this anymore, either. The Vietnamese do dais were scanned from a museum poster advertising a showing, copied onto photo paper, then cut and pasted over blue and gold glazes.

I called this spread "The search."
The background is newspaper from Singapore. I cut the girl's photo from the back side and pasted it in the window. The image in the blue circle was printed on my hmp. Wire, a dymo label, and a fortune cookie wrapper complete this side.
Image is a tape transfer, and the two characters (copied from the fortune cookie wrapper) was made using scraps of holographic stickers.

One of my favorite spreads in Kathy's book was "Firecrackers." I used real bottle rockets and firecracker label images. I first poured as much white glue as possible into the bottom of the bottle rockets and allowed them to dry for about two days. I turned the bottle rockets over and poured glue into the tops and allowed them to dry. There is no way these will ever fire. Clipart Geishas, a painted slide mount and washi paper complete the spread on a gold glaze background.
I'm not sure why I created this two page spread outside the book, but possibly it was because Kathy had her book at the time, and I had some of her pages. I began with pink and yellow Twinkling H20s, then made a flower using Krylon Gold Leafing pen. The puzzle piece was colored using the same pen. The panda image was from a magazine, and the postage stamp was real. The "Believe" leaf was cut from a metal tea light container, colored with alcohol ink, and stamped with metal stamps.
The bamboo was from my garden, the image from a magazine, and the mizuhiki cord was added for balance.