The Craft Fantastic
In light of the upcoming National Stationery Week, I’ve decided to run a little competition amongst my Facebook friends (indeed, the ones who are actually my friends!).
All they have to do is post me a hand written letter. That’s the whole brief, they can make of that what they will!
As a prize, the best one will be able to commission me to customise a lovely set of envelopes and note papers.
I will be posting the best entries and of course their customised prize. Watch this space!
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!
So I made up a new blank notebook. Ivory paper:
Red and gold headband:
Simple black cover:
The intention was to stick a decorative metal key on the front, but I can’t quite decide how to place it. Which looks best?
It began with an innocent discussion on snozzcumbers, and ended with this link being emailed round the office from Letters Of Note:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/08/thank-you-for-dream.html
This website is a definite must visit for anyone who likes reading, writing, letters and words.
Here are some of my favourites:
Craft complete! The cover material came yesterday and I finished my trio of miniature notebooks. Very happy with the results:
And when I say Christmas cards, I mean proper snail mail cards, none of this e-card nonsense!
Come along! We have the usual paper goods, plus lots of snuggly knitted things for winter and some Christmas stock, too.
I’ve added more festive Christmas gift tags to the Craft Fantastic Folksy shop!
I’ve also added some knitted hair bows:
You can check out the shop here.
It’s taken me a while to get round to doing one of these, but I finally found the time to have a go at doing a traditionally bound hard back notebook with a proper spine.
Really enjoyed sewing up the signatures, very satisfying:
They’re actually a little loose I think, but as a first attempt I think it worked quite well.
Very pleased with the finished result:
