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The Second Beestung International

digestivepress — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:56:05 +0000

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.

Yes, It’s Got A Hole In It

digestivepress — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:20:40 +0000

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 Tape Book

digestivepress — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:31:00 +0000

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).

Envelopes!

digestivepress — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:48:26 +0000

Since about this time last year I have developed something of an obsession with creating envelopes out of old bits of paper, things from magazines, calendars etc etc… I have now amassed a stupidly large number of them and hopefully I’m going to find someway/where of selling them in the near future. We’ll see. Otherwise I’m just going to drown in a big ol’ sea of envelopes. These aren’t the best pictures but here you go for the gist:

Denim Dinosaurs

digestivepress — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:39:43 +0000

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…

New Book

digestivepress — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:05:07 +0000

Here I am going meta with this book-within-a-book corduroy fascination attempt with beduffeled clasp. I made the boards thicker and it feels satisfyingly chunky.

Goodbye Trousers, Hello Notebooks

digestivepress — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:09:44 +0000

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

Chequebook-sized tracing paper corduroy notebook, stitched.

Coptics

digestivepress — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:25:02 +0000

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.

On Sale!

digestivepress — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:10:26 +0000

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.

More Dead Trouser

digestivepress — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:23 +0000

Trousers: old brown pop corduroy. Umberella design: Miss S Law.