Now, that made my day!

(Thanks for Paperchase!)

I thought of somewhere else worth visiting if you are on a paper buying trip. There is a chain of shops called Paperchase – their main branch is on Tottenham Court Road (which is not too far from Oxford Street). They have a huge selection of wrapping paper, cards and gifts on the ground floor but on the first floor, they have a huge selection of fine art papers and decorative papers, suitable for bookbinding.

Well … hum … if you think about your creations as of them being their own personalities, I come to the very philosophical question wether your books are the creative expression of yourself or if you’re just a medium turning what’s somewhere in the air (or where mystics suppose that to be) into concrete ;-)

I just wanted to say: I would never allow myself to dress completely in pink plus frills, or style my flat opulently with golden ornamented cloth … but making books, I allow those suppressed parts of me to come out :-) BTW, my male personality part loves that stripy one ;-)

If this is the one…it’s yours!

You are so talented. :)

Take a look at my trek photos. Our rivers are so thirsty from the drought that we’ve lost a good 50+ feet of shoreline on the Patuxent. I’ve never been so happy to see the rain as this week. :)

Astrid – I never thought of them as being extensions of me before – I think of them as having their own personalities – now that IS sad!

If you are coming to London, your best bet is to head to Oxford Street where you will find Selfridges department store which has every brand you can imagine, the largest Marks and Spencer and all the chain stores have shops on Oxford Street. Bond Street which is just off Oxford Street has more ‘designer’ stores and Fenwicks department store which is also very good!

I like Boden if you want something a bit different. They are mail order – their web site is http://www.boden.co.uk and they do deliver to Germany!

Hope this helps. Do have fun!

Diane, a plan chest! Now it’s me who’s envious!! I’m excited to see pictures when it has arrived.

off-topic: since Falkiner’s still refuse to process my mailorder (although they offer delivery abroad on their new shop site, but the order stuck in the middle as they have a fault in their online routine) and still don’t answer my e-mails, I decided to without further ado pay them a visit – Ryan Air offers to-and-fro on one day for about 30 pounds. So I thought I take the chance to look for some lovely jumpers that day, too (british design is much more daring than german!) and checked ‘Next’, ‘Dorothy Perkins’ and ‘River Island’ online beforehand. And what did I find? Nearly everything is made of acrylics! I hate that plastic feeling on my skin. Now I wanted to ask you if you know some shops that sell more natural fibre clothes?

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We do miss river scenes like the snaps you show! At the back of Jims in Chester and at Ems parents in Devon…home sweeeeeeeeet home! You can’t beat it!

It has stopped raining although I was woken up by hailstones hitting the window – just as well as we had overslept, so t was a good wake up call :)

SW – the river has gone right down again, thank goodness. It’s amazing how quickly it changes.

I remember my son seeing snow for the first time (he spent the first three years of his life in Kuwait). He loved it but was astonished it was cold! He had only seen it in books and on TV, so had no idea it would be cold :)