Book journal cover outline!

Lots of covers to draw now.

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Reading The Hobbit to my daughter as she tries to get to sleep with a fever. She’s not yet 4 but insisted and is getting a lot out of it.

Her chipping in occasionally from the cosy tent that she sleeps in with ‘uh oh, Bilbo will not like the scratches on his green door!’ or ‘I would also like to ride a fat pony on a adventure’ or ‘I’m not scared of the goblins because I’m very brave, but let’s just not read that bit, ok?’

A thoroughly nice way to re-read this book.

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Hello! I thought I’d make a pinned post of some of my favourite stuff I’ve made. You can click on the pics to go to the listings if you feel like doing so.

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New version of this one- I’ve recently read a book I didn’t understand a word of and a good couple of ‘extremely sad but in a good way’ books.

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I have finished the cover of my book journal, designed the inner pages and made 2 sheets of stickers and a new bookmark to go with it.

Now begins a week of staring at the order cost in my cart on the printing company website and daring myself to believe that I won’t lose money on them..

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Which is your favourite?

I’ve redrawn my stack of Austen books to get the image quality high enough to be a shirt/tote!

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What is this book for you?

In a literal sense, I re-read several Discworld books as a kid that fell to bits (not sure why, but ‘Interesting Times’ in particular). As a teenager, this was ‘High Fidelity’, ‘The Prestige’ and Brett Easton Ellis books, none of which I’ve returned to since!

I don’t re-read much as an adult, except that I listen to the audiobook of ‘I, Partridge’ every few months and read ‘A Christmas Carol’ every December and revisit short stories by Kelly Link, George Saunders and Carmen Maria Machado quite often.

How about you?

Spooky bookstack!

What’s your favourite?

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I used to draw all the covers and lettering before adding the shadows and details, but have been enjoying doing it this way round lately.

A currently blank bookstack

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What I read in August!

Not very much really, I’ve been getting through Gormenghast since May, then 2 bedtime books I read to my daughter.

Gormenghast was brilliant, I owned it for about 10 years and never read it, then picked up a copy second hand recently and finally got into it. I love the total lack of ‘worldbuilding’ and how such an absorbing atmosphere is created despite that. How does this place function? Where and when is it? How many people live there? It doesn’t matter! I might take a break before buying the next one, but I did thoroughly enjoy it, there’s nothing else like it that I’ve read.

For 90% of The Last Battle I couldn’t stand it and occasionally asked my 5 year old if we could switch to something else, but the ending is pretty great to be fair- and she was delighted to encounter all the Pevensies and Mr Tumnus etc again. I think The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Prince Caspian really hold up as stories, but I won’t willingly return to the others in a hurry.

Beaver Towers was a book I vividly remember being read in school, so I sought it out to read to my daughter and it was great! A really fun, spooky but approachable and kid friendly fantasy book. Apparently there are more in the series, so I’ll keep my eye out.

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