Will be getting some of these up on Folksy soon:
Category: Notebooks
While National Stationery Week is a mere 7 days away, I am glad I’ve found out about it at least a little in advance.
As it says on their site, ‘National Stationery Week is a celebration of the written word and all things stationery.’ And just to be clear, that’s stationery with an ‘e’, NOT stationary.
The idea is to encourage more people to write by hand and I for one am all for that. Not just because I want to sell people my notebooks- although actually, that is the main reason I started making them in the first place. I love writing things down, I wanted to do it more often and to create beautiful, fun places to write thoughts/ideas/lists in!
Here, then, are my favourite stationery items from The Craft Fantastic:
Simple, single section notebooks with beautiful paper all the way from Florence:
Japanese stab-bound notebooks with hand-drawn stencils adorning the front:
Delicately detailed A4 landscape notebooks/journals/scrap books:
Fun geometric shapes on simple stab-bindings:
Miniature books, for miniature thoughts:
Fancy Coptic binding:
Beautiful black hardback with a metal key:
Keep your eyes peeled for new stock, plus some goodies especially for NSW!
Coptic binding is something I’ve been wanting to try for ages and I found a really great tutorial. I love this one particularly as the pictures are so clear.
To practise this technique, I decided to bind my old sketches together. They’ve been laying around, sheets of A4 from sketch pads that have fallen to bits… I don’t really know why I keep them but I do! Binding them all together meant I could keep them all tidy in one place and also have a go at coptic binding. Winner.
One of the advantages of this type of binding is that allows the pages to lay nice and flat:
A trio of mini notebooks
As 2012 is now over, I think it’s high time I knuckled down and finished some of the projects I’ve either started or been thinking about!
First up, I have 3 mini notebooks to finish, with black covers. Sadly the black bookbinding material has been out of stock, but it’s now on order to be delivered! I have the cover boards all cut and ready for covering. Come on postie! I need to make more of these:
I’ve had some awesome material from Ikea to make into cushion covers for a whole year now, so they will be next on the list for finishing off:
I got some great key embellishments that have flat backs, perfect for adorning my notebooks:
Oh, go on, go have a look. I have a fancy new banner and everything.
I have Christmas origami gift tags:
Knitted wrist cuffs and headbands:
And a selection of little notebooks, only £1.50 each!
Go on…