Bibliophilia

My work, Soul of the Seal , is featured on In Leaf , a very stylie blog by Lotta Helleberg , an Etsy textile artist. She does leaf printing...

Kids and mums reading poetry in the White Garden Months ago, when I was first invited to chalk poetry at the 2009 Hamilton Summer Garden...

Hamilton Gardens is my favourite park in the whole world, and today I got to turn it into an artist's book by writing my poetry all over...

Back when I was living in the rainforest, my friend Misha Hoo , told me about an exercise for summoning your inner resources. It involved v...

A small excerpt of the happy sticker chart in my journal Thank you to everyone who participated in my happiness giveaway competition. T...

It's 100% humidity here in Hamilton. Ah, humidity, the bane of a book artist's life. Most of the stress of the past ten days of mak...

This week I've stayed at four different houses in two towns, culminating with moving into my own room in a lovely share house which I ho...

Medium blank book with upcycled pulp-fiction cover My major personal goal for 2009 is to develop a reliable habit of happiness; to reset my...

The whole time I was in Australia, I was frustrated about books. When I could find something to read, it was rarely exactly what I wanted t...

One of the weird little creatures at The Water Hole One of the highlights of my final week in Melbourne was Shelka's workshops at Medium...

Bibliophilia is 4 years old today! This is the 586th post I have published here. These days the posts aren't always so frequent, but a...

I went into the Daintree to be inspired. I thought I would be inspired to write poetry about the rainforest and come out ready to use paper ...

I finally got to print my pattern today. That big Western press turns out to be Very Hard Work. This evening I feel like I've had six ...

Soda water and mint leaves from below... Christmas evening in Rayna and Karl's backyard. I'm in another Etsy Treasury , with a charm...

I'm almost ready to print, after 25 hours of composing, proofing and make ready (7 hours just for sticking pieces of paper on the back o...