Thank you to everyone who has come out to the past couple months of art shows! I appreciate your support and smiles and friendliness. Lately, I feel like more and more people have made a point to let me know who they gave a journal to and the impact it had. Thank you for your intention and for sharing. I am so grateful.
I've been having too much fun playing with new designs. I've added some new sizes, new closures, and speciality books which come with certain insides.
Below are the new sizes in handmade paper. They are for a limited time only. You can use them for writing, sketching, photos, watercolors, and more. This also shows two of the new closures that I've started using more of: the bronze latch and the knotted leather. The knot looks complicated, but it is literally a knot and is a whole different look.
This is a sample page from the Baby Book. Makes a great gift for a baby shower and has all the typical places for notes that you will want to keep as your baby is growing.
The guestbook is nice for a wedding gift or is even good for a wedding shower where you can easily keep track of guests.
The address book is small (about 4 x 6) and is great for those of us who are old school and still write down addresses.
The dated diary has one page per day and would make it easy to do a little daily journaling or would be a good place to keep notes that you need to be dated and organized (for example, a food journal/diary).
The music composition notebook is a unique place to write your music. It is simply pages full of the staff for your composing pleasure.
New photo albums come in three sizes. These also have the inside pages shown below. They have a glassine (a glossy, transparent paper) separating the pages so your photos are protected.
My first outside show of the year was at the 4 Bridges Art Festival in Chattanooga, TN. I fell in love with that place--the people were so friendly, there were local businesses everywhere, and fun art was all over. I had just enough extra time to fit in some tasty restaurants and check out some cute, new boutiques. I stayed at a hostel, Crashpad, and was able to walk to and from the show. It was all so fabulous!
