It’s tomorrow!! Gosh I’m so excited, the (sadly) very last Made in The Shade Holiday Hullabaloo will take place at the Lighthouse in Glasgow tomorrow, Saturday 10th December 2011.

There are going to be so many fantastic designers and makers there, it’s the perfect place for all your Christmas shopping.

Be there or be square

Have you seen Marceline’s new project yet? Pushpin Zines is a fantastic online place to find all sorts of amazing and wonderful zines by lots of very talented individuals, I am in awe of people who can write about stuff in an entertaining and informative way (it’s not something I’m great at as you can probably tell from this blog!). Marceline is also stocking some exclusive pumpkinsputnik bookmarks there, the perfect gift for a zine (or book) lover!

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks binding and trimming some lookbooks for the lovely Rachael at Hannah Zakari in Edinburgh, they are stunning – Rachael has done an amazing job with the styling and Gill McColl a great job with the design and layout. I was truly honoured to be asked to bind them and I’m really pleased with the outcome, it was good fun too, I really enjoyed doing work for someone else for a change. If anyone else would like some binding done, drop me a line and I’ll do you a quote!

So I finally made it over to Edinburgh in the holidays and got the chance to go to Anthropologie to see my books in situ. They look very stylish don’t you think? And how gorgeous is that desk?!

Wow – twice in one day, I am spoiling you!

Just thought I’d share my new design with you all, it’s called Violetta and is available in notebook form at the moment in A6 and A5 sizes. I may try it as a card, I may not….

It will be available as a bookmark exclusively from Marceline’s new project pushpin zines though, very soon (more on that later).

A6 notebook in violetta design

Hello! (I’m not so good at this blogging lark am I? – it’s a bit like when I tried to keep a diary as a child) Anyhoo, the big news is that I have designed and made an exclusive range of 4 A5 notebooks for Papa Stour which are available exclusively from Anthropologie in Edinburgh and London! This is clearly very exciting news, and I’m thrilled and grateful to the lovely Papa Stour ladies for sorting it all out. Please go along and see the lovely new Anthropologie store in Edinburgh if you’re close by – it’s a gorgeous shop full of beautiful things to covet. (and do let me know if you spot the notebooks!)

Pumpkinsputnik for Papa Stour exclusively at Anthropologie