Interlude: Tiny Books and Were to Find Them (around your neck)

I had soooo many plans, I even started up a couple of projects, but the pre-holiday-season is definitely one of those ‘expect the unexpected’ times of year… In the last couple of weeks, instead of finishing some project or other, I found myself spending every free moment making tiny books. There is no complaint in that statement, I love making these tiny treasures and I LOVE when they make others smile, so I thought I’d share some of them here too.

As a lifelong (and proud) nerd and lover of stories, it’s no surprise books have always been a great love of mine. I love gigantic old books, but let’s face it – who doesn’t love a tiny book? And I mean tiny, the books I make are 2-2.5cm tall, and I’m always surprised and how much detail they have.

 

Once I had the books though, I started thinking what to do with them and jewellery seemed like a good idea. I started with necklaces and continued to earrings.

Then I thought - why settle for one book? I definitely don't with reading books! And so the stacked-book necklace was born. 

Lately I started thinking of making more specialized designs and started with my new grimoires, I must admit - I adore them 🖤

It’s not exactly hard to make tiny books, but it does take time and a LOT of patience, and they don’t always come out right – a scratch, a paint stain… I make vintage style books (old books are the best!), but there’s a limit to what I can pass as shabby. In every batch there’s a couple of books that don’t pass my ‘pendant quality’ test and I ended up with a small pile of sad books with no purpose – clearly that could not stand! So I found them new purposes. You may have noticed a few of them in “The Witch’s Son” Tale-ing Fragment. I also use them when I make witch’s cabinets. A scratch on the cover of the book was covered nicely by a grinning skull. 

For the Wiccan cabinet I used a couple of damaged books, but also made a spell book that can open – way too much fun there

I hope you enjoyed this tiny-book interlude (with lots of photos), did you like how I used the books? What would you make with tiny books? 

I’ll be back soon (hopefully) with a new project!