Letter press designs from Jessica Hische

I recently found these little beauties and fell in love with them. I think they have a lovely sort of romantic feel to them in an old fashioned fairy tale kind of way. If I could afford the $2,000 (or £1,254.31. Just thought I'd check.) for the set then I'd be trying to find a wall big enough for them all right now.

I could settle for buying one of my initials for just $40

But I secretly wish my initials were

as they aren't, I'd have to fake some kind of camper van obsession instead.

Based in New York, Jessica seems to have worked for so many big names that I feel that I should have heard about her sooner. Shame on me.

You can view the whole alphabet as well as her other work at her website here , everybody should see it, it's truly beautiful.

Book binding at CUTS

I recently went on a book binding course run by CUTS (communal use textile studio) in Liverpool. The course, hosted at MelloMello, was run by Beccy Williams and was amazingly only £20 for the day! I got to choose from recycled, vintage and new paper, and was able to take my lovely book home at the end!

I put purple thread through the centre of mine to pull together the colours in the vintage papers I'd used.

Envelopes make lovely little pockets inside a book.

It was a soft back, we just used everyday cardboard as it's strong, but flexible enough to bend.

Below are some other photos I took inside the studio..

For more information on the course and others they run (they also do screen printing and various textile courses as well as hiring out their space) you can email Beccy at cuts.liverpool@yahoo.co.uk, or visit the website here.