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If you've seen me at conventions you may have noticed I sometimes have nice little cloth-bound notebooks for sale, along with my usual scribblings. In the interest of making my illustration work pay better now that I've lost my job,  they are now up in my etsy shop! They're made with lightweight sketching paper, (cream, 96gsm, medium surface) so they're great for writing and drawing.

Wait, I can't remember if I mentioned losing my job before. If not, it was about two months ago, and I can't get too down about it as I was miserable there and I do have savings. Still, if you feel the need for a new notebook, please help my savings dwindle as slowly as humanly possible by purchasing one of mine!

Recently my co-worker paid me to make her some custom books. She wanted two in the same dimensions as a lined notebook she already had, but one which had plain paper so she could write in it horizontally, and one which opened at the short edge to form a very long, thin double page spread. That one also needed heavy paper, so she could paint in it if she wanted. It was a lot of fun making something different to my usual A6 notebooks, but cutting the pages to a custom size left me with a lot of off-cuts. So, naturally, I made those into books too. I got four mini notebooks out of them, in two different sizes. (I photographed them with an A6 book for comparison.) I'll have the minis to sell at Manchester MCM later this month.

I make a lot of hardback notebooks, and I have finally remembered to actually put them for sale somewhere! I now have new A6 and A7 hardback books available in my shop. I’ve also learned to attach ribbon bookmarks since the last set. All of them are plain sketching paper, and I ship them with guidelines in case you’re like me and can’t write straight without them. I hope they go down as well as the previous batch! https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sarahfogg?section_id=13856530