One of my to-do lists just got shorter

I have a list of to-do lists. And it tends to get longer instead of shorter. I just add a lot, really. I do get to cross things off and I am about to, right after I click on publish here. One of the things on my Stoffer + Blik list was 'write a blog about the new handmade book'.

I added that when I finished making that book. It was the hand bound notebook that I covered with a vintage map that I found on a flea market. I was (and am) really happy with the result and wanted to share that with you. I say was, because a few days ago I sold it. And 'sold' in handmade-unique-one-of-a-kind things means 'gone'. I miss it. Boohoo.

So I am a little too late really, because I am about to show you something that is no longer for sale and that you cannot have. Sorry.

But it's pretty all the same. So here it is anyway. I made this hand bound book, without any cover in the course I took last year in hand bookbinding, so it was laying around for a while before I actually finished it. Then I found the perfect paper to make the cover: a beautiful vintage map of the United States, with NYC as the center of the cover when I folded it around. Perfect!

Usually I would say: you can get it here! But you can't... I should have written this sooner, I know.
I am now all out of these hand bound books. I am thinking of ways to get my hands on a good paper cutter so I can make some more. I'll get back to you on that.

A whole lot of X

Since about a year and a half I have this thing for the letter X. It started out as a creative way to say 'kiss'. Since then I have been seeing x's all around. And receiving them too. They are on number plates, on stickers, in fences, shadows form them and workers spraypaint them as signs on the pavement. I now have an X-radar. They're everywhere!

That made me think of the stitched heart card I made a while ago. It is looked at at Etsy quite a few times a week, but it has been sold out for a while. So on a slow evening with a cup of tea, I dusted of the needle and the brightest pink wool and put some x's together. That means I have one of the these cards in stock again. You can get it here.