The Butterfly Collector

With pages that unwrap, like wings.

Romeo and Juliet are coming to town

This small pocket style note book I think of as my Romeo and Juliet range. These books are, quite simply, little books of love. Collect in them your fond sayings, billet doux, the tickets, notes, tokens and the rose petals that make the ordinary everyday exceptional. 

As a very kind person donated leather to me, just for these Romeo and Juliet books, I'm keeping the price on the upcoming stall as low as twenty pounds. Perfect! The books become the most wonderful and unique present. Fill your book with love notes, photos, sayings, prayers, wishes or desires and hand it to your beloved on a birthday, anniversary, or just to say, I love you.

Coal and Diamond

Ravishing note book based on poems by Audre Lorde.

The cracked leather stitched on the cover of this book is part of my lovely new consignment from a specialist suppliers, and I only have a limited amount, so if you need to feel this beauty between your fingertips, then come to CMK Handmade and Vintage Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March. Make it early, because someone will hold this book and say, This one is Mine. (Make sure that person is You. xx)

The sea, the sea

What a comfort there is in memory: watching the sea on the Suffolk and Norfolk coastlines when the skies are pale and the sea swells in huge churns; flint grey, dense, muddied blues, thick cream foam beating on pebble shores. How beautiful and right to hold is thick textured crumpled leather, wrapped up with velvet, crochet, linen threads. Add nets, wire, hand-rubbed felt, ceramic fastening, English marbling, waxes and glass paper. A book to hold a memory of the sea.

 

One that wasn't there yesterday

The Book of Missing History, inspired by Borges' Things that might have been.

Notebook for an Adventrix

Required for travel! Whether it be tea and treacle tart while moored in the Persian Gulf, or resting up in a Fijian harbour inn while the harpoon is sharpened for the afternoon's kraken hunt.

Brown leather lady's book contains pocket, folds, tucks, flaps and a secret place to store the world's deadliest harpoon point. Map route, code store, ticket holder. Likely to be required at a moment's notice when the adventures begin. (Supplied therefore with a linen thread loop on the binding, to hang it on the bedpost overnight.)

Strap it to your camel, move on. Maps fold out. Map pins included.

Choice 3: Requires purposeful lady traveller, scholarly and intrepid, familiar with the Ritz, but not too effete to strap themselves onto a camel.