Story tellers

Objects: shell, emblem, fabulous beast, pen, photograph. A rippling, flowing stitch evokes the shoreline, with torn leathers and textured suede fastened in place to make folds and pockets, from which magical creatures, strange curiousities and new wonders can emerge.

Recycled and plain papers carry lined and scattered lines set against printed marbling of white and blue. Lines - fragmented, directioned, blotted, curved and meandering - evoke words and memories blown throughout the book.

Photographs, once-urgent inked writings, layering of texts, snatches of story. At the end, the story-teller's pen, tucked away, ready to begin again.

Add clown nose

Sometimes I love you people. In all your bonkers, unpredictable ways. Book, made not of opposites or contradictions - that would be too straightforward - but simply of the un-charted, un-networked, un-resolvable, barely comprehensible objects. Green wool felt (speak to me of forests and circles of nature); blue Lapis lazuli rock (tell me of ancient ritual, life and death); a handful of scrabble letters (read to me L, W, S, O, E, word it what you will); a chess piece (strategum and outwit me); a clown nose (false and true).

Book of Curiosities. Contains real hide. I ripped it myself from the tail end of a sleeping dragon.

Scrapbooking Dementia

Bow, bells, mirrors, texture; familiar and strange. Shirt buttons, beads and J-Cloths; prints and patterns. Pockets, tucks and folds to stash notes, photos, jottings and scrapbook stories. Fabrics and felts for stitching. Pocket at rear for small objects and mementos: the little things we need to keep.

Central Milton Keynes! Yippee! September 8th 9th!

Come to Stall 13 and find your book. There's one for you.

Don't leave it until 4pm on Sunday. Because there is always a hazard that someone will have walked off with Your Book.

Handmade and Vintage Fair

See you at Asylum X Lincoln

Let's be Married

The Genteel Lady Traveller of the Steampunk Age: Note Book Required

Then here it is! A Most Useful Note Book containing all the essentials of travel for refined persons. To wit: detecting device for dangerous beasts; washing peg; time-making gear (to be returned to Prof P, shouldn't have stolen it in the first place); notation instrument, plus all ticketing and advice for persons of quality. Also, secret space to store the Code that activates the Butterfly Blaster. (Do NOT use it again on the cat.)

Note Book for the Steampunk Birder

Record your sightings of the little tweeters in these beautiful pages. At the Steampunk Asylum X, Lincoln, Bailgate Market.

The Essential Note Book for the Travelling Lady

Essential item for travel memorabilia, jottings, timetables, and remembering codes for key access on the airship.

On sale at Steampunk Asylum X, Lincoln, this bank holiday weekend.

Knickers will be hosting a stall in the Bailgate Church, Saturday and Monday. 

Love the Story. xx

A Touch of Bardot Gingham