Secret Whispers Book

Sisters! my new friends and dear villagers, I need your help, I implore you to read on.........

There is great unrest abroad near my own Chateau in France. Sadly many of our fellow English lives are in great peril. We have had to resort to alternative ways to communicate across the waters. Mr Launcelot Penn esq., has thought of a way of helping me to aid my fellow countrymen. Thus through the London connections of my brother - it has come to my attention a great and desperate need to convey a series of messages that might go unrecognized upon a courier or secreted within a lady's document folder, that will not attract attention due to its feminine appearance and seemingly unimportance.

We are looking for willing creatives to aid us in the making and clever delivery of secret messages, perhaps to the apartments of the Golden Palace to her majesty Marie Antoinette herself! Are you prepared to embark upon a journey of intrigue? Are you willing to secretly create attractive concoctions of very commonplace objects, into clever manipulations of the mundane household/garden into artifacts of pleasant appeal?

The reward will be great satisfaction upon each episode of its completion.

I beseech your aid in this campaign to get our communications abroad with great haste.

Ever gratefully in your service,

Miss Gwendolyn Evangeline Penn
visiting for a 3 month at "The Chestnuts" Amberleigh

THE SWAP:

Are you tempted to join in this mysterious swap?

This is an opportunity to finally be granted to use glittery papers and washi tapes, coloured cellophane in unusual ways. Practice the use of decorative script, exquisite stamps......The more participants we have, the more intrigue we can concoct together... You will have One (1) partner to email your efforts to, and think of a secret message/sign.

When all the members that have signed up by the sign up date, & are allotted partners, I shall email each of you a series of images & personal instructions that will start you making a booklet of whispers. You will be keeping your book "At Home" in your own library.

1. Before we can embark on the making of the whispers book, we must first obtain the pages!
   So your first mission will be to seek suitable transparant papers that are 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches, or simply drink tea to gather the tea bag papers. Not any old tea bag, but the folded paper teabags that are either stapled at the string, or stitched at the top like TWININGS or Lipton brands of tea bags that the paper can be carefully undone at the top, and emptied of the used contents via clean tap water, then opened out and dried, to reveal approx 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch transparent sheet.

Do you only drink coffee? Coffee paper filters are a good alternative though these will be opaque and a different shape.... Which will add more intrigue..... Failing that, if you neither drink coffee or tea.... find your pages with a dimension of 3 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches of filmy tissue wrapping paper, parchment paper, vellum etc, or I will message you alternatives when you contact me....

So ...............enjoy your cuppa, if you want deeply stained pages, then leave the used teabag to sit for a day or two to dry out a bit and then empty them under the tap or in a bowl, imagine the colour of a red Hibiscus or fruit tea or a pale yellowy earl grey tea. Once you have begun gathering your pages... set them aside in a neat pile and await your email at the close of the sign up date, you shall then have the next set of instructions. Your future tasks after each set of instructions will be to email your partner a portion of your current progress. And hide a secret message (I will provide several ways to do this) and that you must find a way to convey...in plain sight without being obvious. I envisage one swap a month until its finished. Each new swap in the series will have a particular theme to play with....

Then the intrigue begins....

A cautionary note: If you have not joined in a swap these last few months, and not contacted us, then this might be a good one to rectify that status, especially if you are swapping elsewhere. Madame Guillotine swings in the balance.

As always if you would like any further information, please contact - Jane - Star7Lily -