It's the usual rush to get just a few more books made before the next artists' book fair - which is in
Leeds in less than a week.
Today I have been up-cycling some previously made work. I originally printed these as greetings cards at the end of the print run of bookmarks for the
Bookmarks IX: infiltrating the library system project last summer. They are composed of 6pt letterpress ornaments, packed together to create the pattern and text. I only had enough ornaments to print a single word, so these cards were put through the press 6 times to achieve this noticeboard look.
At the end of 2011 I up-cycled the leftover greetings cards into notebooks with blank pages, for the
abc Christmas market. I also took these to the
Ffotogallery Book Arts Fayre last weekend, where I observed that people were very interested in them, but then looked disappointed when they opened them to find there was no 'book' content inside. So I have been flexing my rubber stamps and have now added text to the pages, representing examples of delays and the reasons given that I have experienced over my rail travels.
