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Mini Journals have been very popular this month, perhaps there have been a lot of summer birthdays, or maybe because it’s the height of wedding season. They really are sweet little gifts, but the kind that you want to keep around, a gift you can use and admire after the event, not something that will get lost in the back of *that* drawer.

We're heading into another weekend heatwave, so find an inspiring view and take along your new favourite leather journal or sketchbook hand made in bright colours of gorgeous goatskin with a handy penholder and lovely cartridge paper for your creativity. Use code Summer16 for FREE STANDARD SHIPPING on featured items. 

Folded Accordion books offer an array of narrative possibilities for artists. Learn more about and find inspiration for your next artists book or photography project in this blog post.

For papas who like to roam, write, sketch & story-tell, here's a selection of hand made fine leather books and paperback notebooks to celebrate Father's Day this year. Prices from £10 to £199, and a gift service and international delivery are available.

This bespoke leather journal was a suprise retirement gift for a gentleman leaving his profession to help run a charity that supports The Plantation Garden, a Grade II English Heritage Victorian 'secret' garden in the heart of Norwich. The title page aptly featured this quotation...

As I work on a new line of journals and send out Mother's Day orders, here's some joy, inspiration and creative soul food from Swedish artist Jonna Jinton, Japanese ceramicist Midori Takaki and blogger Sara of Me & Orla.

Did you see the December cover of ELLE Decoration? For their sparkling, seasonal Winter Luxe edition Kyla McCallum, founder of Foldability design studio, created dozens of paper snowflakes using Fedrigoni's Pearlescent papers. Here's how she did it.

The binding I most commonly use is a late Medieval style known as the Longstitch with Linkstitch. Before I became a bookbinder I studied Old and Middle English at university, and spent a fair bit of time on Medieval texts. If only Twitter had been around then for a bit of light relief...

This month I worked on a completely one-off, never to be repeated leather journal / sketchbook for a very special person. An artist-educator who herself works with books in their many forms including altered books

I've been busy behind the scenes refreshing this website with some changes that should improve your experience using the site, with currency conversions, back in stock notice, customer reviews, advanced search, social feeds and it's now fully optimised for mobile. 

There seems to have been a flurry of interesting altered books, artists books and bookbinding activity lately in Dorset and beyond. Here's a round up: