(Actually that’s not a grumpy face, but it hadn’t started at that stage. The fair I mean…) Having sat (stood, actually) through five hours of Craft 2.0, I have come to a conclusion I suspect I knew beforehand, given my dread: I dislike craft fairs. Perhaps bullet points will be my friend here: 1. For [...]
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Craft Fairs: a grumpy grrface
Posted in Books, Misc on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
New books
Posted in Books on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a long-winded draft the other night debating whether or not I wanted to keep making books. Now they’re finished, I think I’ll save that debate for another time. I’m really quite pleased with them. I’d been having trouble getting motivated to make them, so on Sunday Louis and I sat at the kitchen [...]
Dust Jackets dusted off.
Posted in Books on January 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The dust jackets of those books what I butcher have finally found a place in my production line! I’ve had this idea for a while, using up those scraps from the larger bookmaking adventures, with a single stitched folio to make a teeny notebook. Yesterday I had a chance to go through the piles of paper, [...]
On sale now!
Posted in Books on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone ogling the books in the next two posts, they are now on sale at The Beach Store in Paekakariki. (Minus ‘Gravity is a Mystery’ which was quickly bagsed by my friend Aynia, via Facebook). By all means, wander down there, have a delicious coffee, look at pretty things and pat the dog. I [...]
Ringbound books arrive
Posted in Books on October 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Four books came back from the copy centre today, out of the six I took in – the other two had covers made from cardboard unsuitable for the hole-punching device. All up, that’s a pretty good success rate, and the paper from them can be trimmed to other covers with thinner, less dense card. So [...]
Crafternooning at all hours!
Posted in Books on October 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Oh, August you say? Yes, rather a slack poster of late. There was a trip away to twiddle my thumbs in Taranaki, score some mean fabric and baking tins, eat whitebait fritters and let Rata push her trolley all over the place. Then I came back to find that the Beach Store in Paekakariki had [...]
I probably should make mention of the wrapping paper…
Posted in Books, Misc on June 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
One of the great things about being a no-good book-butcherer for the sake of making new journals and stuff is the hoards of leftover paper. You get random colour plates, off-cuts, old bits of atlas, marbled end pages and of course, dust jackets. This beauty came from something awesome in the pile of ‘good covers [...]
