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Just finished putting together The Second Beestung International – it contains one long story, one short story, a poem and some pictures.  More to come, including details of where and when they will be available.

I made this book on Monday.  It has a hole (for hiding things I suppose) in the middle and a pocket (for storing things I suppose) on the back.  More soon!

It looks a bit red and scary in those photos but it is a very nice book really.  Um

New and improved version of one of my first binding attempts.

The tape is ‘Heart Of Stone’ by Cher in case anyone is interested.  I bought it from the charity shop and sent it straight for slaughter.  Afterwards I realised that perhaps I should have listened to it.

Actually I think it might have been on the other side of the home taped cassette of Meat Loaf’s ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ that my parents had and which we listened to on many a long car journey (the Meat Loaf side anyway, I don’t remember us listening to the Cher side).

This was another book I made back in November but as it was for a friend’s birthday I didn’t post a picture of it straight away.

And then I forgot for a bit…

Parallelogram-shaped all kinds of blue ex-jean notebook.

Chequebook-sized tracing paper corduroy notebook, stitched.

I don’t really understand what coptic is so it’s going to be pretty difficult to explain it.  I made a coptic book anyway, using instructions from a book.  I don’t think I did it right but it seemed to hold together.  I’m going to use it as a photo album as I constructed the covers from some spare photos I had.  Coptic involves some kind of strange knitting binding thing, I think…  I don’t know…  but I wanted to try.

The First Beestung International housed in recycled, handmade envelopes as well as handmade notebooks now available at ArtCollective gallery in Mill Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey as part of the ‘Edible Delights’ show.