A Journal for Opal
Flicker Feather
During their recent marsh meanderings Opal and Agathe found a beautiful feather, shed by a yellow-shafted Flicker…this inspired the Quimper Hitty’s human to create a special gift for Opal, with the feather playing an important ancillary rôle .
Hand Made Book
The human has always wanted to make hand bound books, and decided to try making a very small one for Opal, with cloth covers the same as her pinafore fabric.
Pretty Endpapers
Opal is keen to start transcribing her Quimper Adventures…
Day One
Quimper Hittys 
Dear Opal, I don’t know what your “normal” life is like, but it seems to me that your journal will be filled with wonderful adventures and you may just end up a tad spoiled! Enjoy it all, we certainly do!
Opal is certainly having a lot of fun with the Quimper Hittys, but her original family is quite adventurous too! I think she is the kind of doll can withstand spoiling, even after 50,00 years in a bog there is no evidence of it!
What a creative, thoughtful companion to Opal’s adventures with Agathe and the QHs. Agathe’s human looks to have done a great job creating the little journal.,,sweet!
The human likes to keep a travel journal, and thought Opal would enjoy keeping one too! We are glad it turned out so well!
Opal is one lucky traveller! A journal is such a good idea. She has very neat handwriting – it seems she was well schooled in Oregon in preparation for her adventures.
She hopes to do a nice job, but her handwriting might deteriorate if she gets very excited about something! It isn’t easy writing with a flicker quill pen!
What a beautiful little book! I hope Opal has been practicing her handwriting – such a responsibility to write in such a lovely journal.
She’ll do her best, but it is meant to be a working document…and if the journal becomes illegible with ink blots, the human will make her another!
Such a lucky little Hitty! Her journal will bring back happy memories for many a long year!
I think so, I like re-reading some of my travel journals, the real ones are somehow more satisfying than the electronic ones!
Fantastic idea, Kjerstin!
Thanks! I like the way it turned out!
Oh what a wonderful journal Opal…I keep a travel journal, but it is nothing as special as yours. Love Hitty Madge.
I am certain your is very special, as it has your own travels and thoughts in it!
beautiful little book and such a good idea to use the pinafore fabric.
Thanks! We liked making the journal very much, and thought the fabric match a good one!