Tiny books in tiny moments

Sometimes when you are a mum, a maker, a project obsessive like myself, you need to use each moment wisely. This is why I usually work so small, it's kind of easier to achieve things amongst making sandwiches, replying to e-mails, wiping noses and doing dishes (I detest doing the dishes!).  So yesterday I dedicated myself to making tiny books. Little tomes that will become little necklaces. Tiny books are like treasure, their pages are intimate and quiet and they always make me think that the people using them are storing away secrets and wishes and dreams - basically I'm a hopeless, hopeless romantic.  So, in my "small moments" my "tiny minutes" I'll be stitching these thumbsized vessels with wonky linen stitching, watercolour papers and beautiful rusted pages, screen-printed leathers and frayed fabrics.  They'll be ready in time for the Christmas Markets (yes, they will be?) and they'll be ready in time for New Years Resolutions.  They will all be unique, they will all be special and they will all be beautiful in a wabi-sabi kind of way.

                    rusted bamboo paper and screenprinted leathers go into this one - already sold!

    a little selection of tiny books, with wonky stitching, handprinted covers, watercolour papers etc etc

my new fave, yellow and black and white, chunky and sweet all at the same time!

Love love this one, already sold, completely gorgeous in it's own crazy stitched way! 

rusted paper sampler

simple japanese stitched binding for this selection of beautiful rusted papers

Fire + Book + Bind Workshop

 

I love taking workshops, facilitating them and teaching them.  I love seeing people achieve amazing things and I come away so inspired by the day. Totally recharged, energised and motivated to create.

The best thing to hear from someone who does one of our workshops (I work with the super talented Heather Matthew) is that it was the "best day I've had in so long" or that "I never give myself the opportunity to be creative and I love it".  The thing about creating is that it is so good for the soul, it gets you in touch with your "humaness" (if that is infact a word!), it is one of those activities that helps us find our voice, be still for a while, think it through and make something to be proud of.  We all love to learn and that little welling of pride that comes from success in print form, or book form is precious and to be treasured.  We feel alive when we make and that is something to do and do often.

xoxoxo

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