Bound for Murder by Laura Childs

Author:Laura Childs [Childs, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Murder, Mystery & Detective, Scrapbooks, New Orleans (La.), Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Women Detectives - Louisiana - New Orleans, General, Decoration and Ornament, Detective and Mystery Stories; American, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9780425199237
Google: 8W_9cXeZJfwC
Amazon: 0425199231
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2003-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“WHY did I think you were making party invitations?” Carmela asked Baby.

Baby swiveled in her chair and adjusted the Chanel scarf draped around her patrician neck. Here blue eyes looked mischievous, her short blond hair artfully tousled. “Because that’s what I told you when I came in this morning. But, surprise surprise, things have changed.”

“I guess,” said Carmela, gazing over Baby’s shoulder at a marvelous array of colorful tags.

The women had sent out for salads from the French Quarter Deli an hour or so ago. Now, the salads munched and the debris cleared away, Tandy and Baby were back at their projects, while Gabby and Wren buzzed about, kibitzing and unpacking boxes of newly arrived scrapbooking supplies.

And while Tandy had made great progress on her bibelot box, Baby was indeed working on an entirely different project.

“Your little tags are gorgeous,” Wren told Baby. “But Carmela’s right, we all thought you started out with invitations.”

“You don’t like my photo tags?” asked Baby.

Now Tandy jumped in. “Are you kidding, sweetie? They’re wonderful.” Tandy was always big on unabashed enthusiasm.

And Baby’s photo tags were adorable. She had cut out individual faces from a number of color photos, then matted them with small bits of pebbled card stock so they looked like miniature portraits. Baby then sponge-dyed ink on large colorful tags to achieve a textured, marbleized surface, then mounted each “portrait” on one of the faux-finished tags.

“So now what?” asked Wren. “You’re going to put the tags on a scrapbook page?”

“I could do that,” said Baby. “But instead I’m going to make a front and back cover from this leather-looking paper, then bind all the tags together with a piece of silk ribbon twined with different fibers. So they become like pages in a book.”

“You’re creating a little memory book,” said Wren, obviously charmed by the craft project. “Very clever.”

“Wren,” said Tandy. “Show me your bibelot box again, will you? I want to see how you affixed the legs.”

Wren popped into Carmela’s office to grab her bibelot box while everyone gathered to admire Tandy’s handiwork.

Tandy had decoupaged a square tea tin with dark-red mulberry paper that had gold Japanese kanji writing on it. Then she had added several colorful postage stamps depicting Mount Fuji and cut-outs of Japanese family crests. Gold fish charms were glued on the sides of the box, and the top featured a lovely red tassel strung with pearls and Japanese blue and white beads.

“It’s gorgeous,” said Gabby. “Now I’m in the mood to make one.”

“Can you believe it started out as an ordinary tea tin?” asked Baby. “Now it looks like something you’d see in one of those expensive gift shops down on Magazine Street.”

“I think you should just add four more of those blue and white beads for feet,” suggested Gabby. “Right on the corners. Like Wren did on hers.”

“Here it is,” said Wren, as she set her little bibelot box covered with keys in the middle of the table. “My mystery key box, as I like to call it.

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