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Lacey, part 1

April 16, 2011
linen blend covers, vintage lace, board, paper, linen thread
approx. 15x15cm, 132 pages of acid free grayish brown 100% recycled paper
I keep going back to my vintage lace collection whenever I'm in the mood for books that are a bit more romantic; to me the combination of delicate lace and visually rougher linen is pure perfection. Maybe that's the most romantic my style gets, I'm not too into frills and tricks... I love how these type of books can be used as wedding guest books or as the everyday journal. Simplicity and harmony please me.
My move up "north" has occupied my thoughts lately; lots of planning, lots of things to do. A month and a half to go still, but I already feel like running out of time as unfortunately there's more to life than moving and designing diy kitchen tables. My inner interior designer has some pretty amazing projects in progress and in mind anyway. V is giving me free hands to do whatever I want with our home (so far!). I say it's going to be fairly interesting to turn a two-poet-guy-bachelor-roommate flat into a two-poet-relationship-household. But I do have a feeling our home may well be the awesomest in town once everything is in it's right place. V is cool like that, and my random stuff is cool too.
On Monday I'll be back home again, hopefully listing this book on Etsy, as well as a bunch of others I have yet to blog about. I'll try to have everything done by Wednesday, so that you will have a chance to snag your favourite and have it in the mail before I'm off to London for a week. Yay <3
ps. Is it totally weird to have moved so many times in the last couple of years that I actually have a tag here called "moving"?
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Kaija Rantakari / Paperiaarre in her Helsinki based studio

Hello, my name is Kaija. I'm a master bookbinder / mixed media artist / accumulator extraordinaire / poet from Finland. This website is where I share my creations to fellow paper enthusiasts.

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I set these aside a little while ago because of hot weather, but today is a great day to finally iron everything. Summer makes for
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I&rsquo;ve made a big stack of large A5-size journals as well as tiny A7-pocket notebooks. There&rsquo;ll be a small handful of A6/postcard size notebooks, too. All covered with
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