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Category Archives: Calligraphy

Where there’s a Will….

14 Comments Posted by Diane on February 7, 2010

I’ve just returned from Stratford on Avon. It was my sister’s birthday. A BIG birthday made all the more disconcerting because she is my younger sister and the less reminders I have the of how old I am, the better! I made her an album for her birthday, which involved the inevitable trawl through old [...]

Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Calligraphy, Design, Families, hairstyles, Handmade books, Humour, Illustration, paper arts, Photography, Places, Travel As You Like It, River Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon, swans, William Shakespeare

Paper arts

15 Comments Posted by Diane on March 28, 2008

I would hazard a guess that if I had asked to to guess what my next book would look like you would have come up with this one. You may recognize the image from my last post. It’s a view of the mountains on the other side of the Rhone valley, taken from the piste [...]

Art, Blogs, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Calligraphy, Colour, Cool links, Crafts, Design, Handmade books, paper arts Annie Vought, Crans Montana, Jen Stark, Peter Callesen, Switzerland

Thoughts on parenthood

26 Comments Posted by Diane on March 2, 2008

I love this paper! I bought it the other day in Exeter from Paperchase. On the outside this paper makes a very sophisticated book. The flowers are Agapanthus – I have some white ones in my garden and they are very tall, stately plants. The black and cream colour scheme adds to the elegance of [...]

Art, Blogs, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Calligraphy, Cool links, Crafts, Design, Humour, Silliness, Videos Barats and Bereta, brothers, children, kites, parent

A very sunny day

11 Comments Posted by Diane on February 18, 2008

I ran a little workshop last Friday and a few of my old calligraphy group came over and I showed them how to make a ribbon book. It all went very well and they went home clutching their own book that they had made – and one of them bought one of my books (the [...]

Art, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Calligraphy, Colour, Crafts, Design, Handmade books, Interesting facts, Photography, Places, weather beach, Dorset, Hive Beach, Jurassic coast, sea Chesil Beach, World Heritage site

Work in progress

9 Comments Posted by Diane on February 2, 2008

This book is a work in progress. It is covered with a gorgeous Japanese tangerine silk bookcloth which matches the end paper perfectly. I have a very soft spot for this end paper, I used it in a very special green leather book I made as a gift for someone last year and it always [...]