Over the next few Wednesdays we are delighted to welcome book artist Rachel Hazell to introduce a series of giveways for paper lovers. Rachel is a woman truly doing what she loves. She is also our collaborator our delicious new course PaperLove (starts March 31), and over the next five weeks she will be giving you an insight into each of the five themes of the course (Paper, Collage, Word, Book, Mail) and offering you the chance to win a delicious book. Enjoy!
Now that other scrap hoarders and stationery addicts are coming out of hiding and declaring their passion, signing up for PaperLove with joy and delight, I too can come clean about the main material in my life: Paper. In nearly all of it’s forms. (Exceptions include hospital knickers, tax bills, scratchy napkins…)
Paper gives me unadulterated, uninhibited, sometimes unexpected pleasure. For fifteen years I have taught how to bind books, how to cut and fold and sew books together, how to fill them with your stories. I have travelled far, to inspiring workshop places, and tried to sculpt icebergs from paper pages. I ran out of days to make…. I love teaching and creating. What to do?
Creating an e-course about paper was the obvious solution for someone in my position – spreading PaperLove even further round the world. Fortunately Do What You Love thought so too. And now here we are, mere weeks away from the start, getting far too excited about what’s in each Treasure Box Kit, and trying out the exercises over and over again (Just checking…. heh heh…)
The general sense of celebration overflowing the page edges has reached such a peak that it’s time to pass some round.
THE FIRST GIVEAWAY
“What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper. PAPER: AN ELEGY builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox – its vulnerability and durability.”
This splendid volume is utterly comprehensively convincing and can only enhance the life of anybody who has found their way to this blog post.
“A timely meditation on the very paper it’s printed on.”
If you would enjoy reading this book, pop over to Rachel’s blog HERE and enter. You will find the details of the giveaway at the end of her post. Good luck!
