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Woo! One of the Etsy Teams I belong to is BEST: the Bookbinding Etsy Street Team, and this week--Sept 1 to 7--we're having a sale. I'm offering free worldwide shipping, plus if you buy two or more items, you get a free Dawson Printshop wood type letterpress calendar.

Here are all the shops participating in the sale:

• Anticovalore: free world wide Shipping

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I just posted a bookbinding-themed word find at Handmade News. Word finds are harder to make than I thought they would be!

I'm writing for Handmade News now, and just had a new article go up yesterday. It's the first installment in my new books & paper column Leaf by

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I've just posted the last batch of images of my very old book (1992!) Growing Up in Elfland. You can see the photos individually in My Photos, but if you want to see the book as a whole, I'd recommend viewing the "Growing Up in Elfland" Album. I'll warn you, though, it's full of bad drawings and worse poetry. I'm really only posting it as part of an historical record of my development as a bookbinder and book artist.

Now I'll have to dig through my things and decide what to post next. I… Continue

Way back in 1992, when I was attending the University of Victoria's Creative Writing program, I had an assignment for second year Fiction to make a book. The working definition of "book" we were given was simply a series of sheets somehow attached together. Even "sheets" didn't have to be taken literally. Alas, back then I had a pretty narrow concept of what a book was (I suppose I kind of still do, in some ways).

Originally, I had grand plans to do a properly bound book sewn on tapes with lino… Continue