If you’re an artist and would like to trade your art for handmade journals, please let me know! Drop a note below along with a description of what you’d like to barter, […]
Anyone interested in bartering DIY handmade Art products?
Handmade journals as gifts
What do you do when your hobby involves making real life items that you cannot possibly use all by yourself? You gift them of course! 🙂 I love making books by hand. […]
Craftsmanship – Mistakes add up
In building a physical structure such as a book, it is so evident that mistakes, even if they’re quite small in isolation, really add up and get magnified when the final structure […]
Share what you make
It is not easy to put your work out there, making yourself and your work vulnerable to others’ judgement. Especially in your early stages, when you are yourself unsure about what you’re […]
5 podcasts to boost your creativity
I listen to podcasts all the time. Not only are they a great way to learn something new during “dead time”, ie, making good use of the time when you can do […]
Best bookbinding method and materials for a writing journal
Since I’ve begun making books, I’ve also begun spending more time writing in them. It’s amazing how making something yourself makes you so much more invested in a product 🙂 I have […]
Starting a new bookbinding project
I’ve been thinking about what bookbinding project to start next. Having made more than 20 journals by now, I’m at the point where I want to try something different. I love making […]
Don’t wait to find the time to start and finish that task completely
Often times, you get an idea, but for whatever reason, you do not have the time to implement it in its entirety at that time. You’re busy with something else, the idea […]
Reading should be enjoyable not a chore
Growing up, somehow I was under the impression that I should only read books that are supposedly “good”. This would typically mean hard to understand, dense literature, that would go over my […]
Enjoying the work of Masters in other disciplines
I recently came across a cook book called “The Cordon Bleu Cookbook” by Dione Lucas. It was published in 1947. Dione Lucas was an English chef and the the first female graduate […]
Sonali Mangal 