Finished holly leaves

This weekend we finished a pile of holly decorations ready to take to Clutter City next weekend. Here they are at various stages -

And here they are finished! We're saving most of them to take to Clutter City, but we have listed a pair in our Folksy shop too...

As well as making holly leaves we've also been adding to our pile of concertina books too. They look so pretty, and we're really pleased with how they have turned out. They're very relaxing and therapeutic to make too - must be all that paper folding. This photo is rather dark (it is a very grey day today), and the colours are much more sparkly and vibrant in person.

This afternoon we are going to letterpress some new Christmas cards, as well as baking a cake and lighting a fire!

Paperback Penguin Prints

Since doing the Christmas card (see earlier posts) there have been a couple of small pieces of engraver's plastic lying around, and on Sunday we decided to make use of one of them and do a tiny print based on the classic Penguin paperback design. We have a growing collection of these and it seemed like a nice little project for a weekend afternoon.



By that evening it was engraved and we'd printed it up in orange (used by Penguin for fiction covers), followed the next morning by green (mystery and crime, see below). We then added a pink (travel and adventure) and a blue version (biography) to finish it off. You can see the finished print here on our Flickr page.



Currently listening to: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!