Four more days! Moira from Bookish Lady is one of our vendors - check out her great prints and notebooks!



1. What do you make and do you have a website?

I make handmade journals and other books, and I also make letterpressed cards and posters. My website is bookishlady.com


2. Why do you make things?

I collect lots of little scraps of things, and especially interesting paper, so I enjoy making those into special new things. It's a good way to recycle. My favorite part is seeing the finished project come together.


3. When did you start making things?

When I was tiny! My mom taught me to sew when I was in elementary school, and I used to make lots of crafty projects with my sister. Our masterpiece was a diorama of paper mermaids with sparkly outfits in an underwater scene. It was covered in plastic wrap to give it a watery
effect.


4. Why buy handmade?

Lots of reasons! You'll get something more interesting than mass-produced goods in a huge chain store. Often when you buy handmade you buy local as well, and that's good for the environment and your local economy. Lots of crafty people are recycling old things into
their crafts, so you're supporting that, too, instead of bringing more crap into the world. And how can you resist something made with love?


5. What craft supplies would you take to a deserted island?

Hmm. Paper scraps. Letterpress blocks. Glue. Yarn and ribbon. My collection of old books, for inspiration.


6. What crafters or artists do you love?

Orly Cogan is probably my favorite artist. Imogene from Baltimore is a great collective. There are tons of great artists working in letterpress, but Hatch Show Print in Nashville is the classic. Melissa from Dearest Inez and the Makery in Louisville, KY is a sweetheart.


7. What new craft/skill do you want to learn?

Hmm. Screenprinting, maybe. I'd like to be able to screen onto my books. I'd like to get better at sewing and at letterpress, too. I have a ways to go to be able to produce the kinds of things I really admire.


8. Tell us something funny about yourself.

Once I got my hair caught in a fan, and had a bald spot for awhile.