My clever husband has suggested a post with all the 50 books on and how the bids are going - so here it is! Your easy reference point all in one blog.
1. Feather book
8.5 x 8.5cm, 92 pages. Calico cover printed with 3 feather prints. Pages blue, white and graph paper.
Current bid £10
2. Button book
16 x 11cm, 154 pages. Turquoise cover with paper buttons & real buttons down spine. Pages blue & purple, graph paper & dictionary pages.
Current bid £12
3. Turquoise paisley
16 x 11cm, 154 pages. Black background and colourful paisley. Pages, are blue, purple, pink and cream, interspersed with graph paper and dictionary pages.
Current bid £15
4. Marbled windows
14 x 14cm, 114 pages. Navy background with 4 windows cut out to reveal marbled fabric.
Pages white & graph paper.
Current bid £10.00
5. Wooden birds
4 x 3cm, 116 pages. Gold cover, turquoise spine. Cover with 2 wooden birds.
Pages from old poetry book (Wordsworth).
Current bid £13.00
6. In out in a box
4 x 4cm, concertina. Blue & white paisley box. Concerntina page with gatha - in, out, deep, slow, calm, ease, smile release, present moment, wonderful moment.
Current bid £15.00
7. Two birds poem
15 x 16cm, 4 pages with cut outs. Poem written by Lauri. Printed and cut out pages.
Current bid £20.00
8. Cream and hessian
20 x 19.5cm, 82 pages. Heavy cream cartridge paper, stitched spine with beads.
Current bid £20.00
9. Family hands
25 x 20cm, 16 pages. Hands related to each person's interests in the Bower/Keenan family.
Current bid £20.00
10. Sparkling stars
6.5 x 10cm, concertina. Gold paisley concertina book with poem by Lauri.
Ribbon & magnet closure.
Current bid £17.00
11. The ocean of bliss
16 x 15.5cm, 23 pages. Pale blue pages with poem by Lauri. Felt embroideries front & back, poem hand-written.
Current bid £35.00
12. Coptic binding
16 x 11cm, 60 pages. Red and purple cover with pink, purple and cream pages and brown coptic binding on the spine.
Current bid £20.00
13. Green envelopes
11 x 7.5cm, 16 pages. Quirky book with an envelope on each page for ideas or secrets that need keeping safe.
Current bid £25
14. Sangha poems
15 x 10.5cm, 20 pages. Poems written on York Sangha related events since 2012.
Current bid £35.00
There are 4 copies of this book.
15. 21-day retreat Plum Village
15 x 10.5cm, 28 pages. Poems written on the 21-day retreat Plum Village 2014
Current bids, £15.00, £20.00, £10.00, £22.00
There are 4 copies of this book.
16. Mind is a great storyteller
15.5 x 21.5cm, 12 pages. Poem written by Lauri with last page as cut-out.
The covers & pages are decorated with decoupage.
Current bid £14.00
17. Borrowers' turquoise
3 x 3cm, 166 pages. A tiny book for Borrowers. An assortment of quirky pages made from photocopied paper with random printing & marbled fabric.
Current bid £20.00
18. Borrowers' maroon
3 x 8cm, 136 pages. A tiny book for Borrowers. Pages made from fine rice paper.
Current bid £10.00
19. Inner silence
15 x 14cm, 4 pages. The simplest of books just for displaying Thich Nhat Hanh's lovely quote, 'inner silence does not require external silence'.
Current bid £15.00
20. Words of peace
22 x 7.5cm, concertina. Concertina book. Each page has a cut out centre to display a card feather. Each feather has a word printed onto it.
Current bid £35.00
21. Go Outside
15 x 21cm, 24 pages. A book featuring 21 of my own poems all about being outside in nature.
Current bid £25.00
23. 10 Love poems
15.5 x 10.5cm, 10 pages. 10 individual leaves with a hand-written poem by Lauri
on each inside a folder.
Current bid £23.00
24. Acorn
9 x 10cm, 1 page. A hexagon folding out into a bigger hexagon. Words by Kahlil Gibran.
Current bid £25.00
25. Silence heart
8 x 8cm, 17 pages. Heart shaped book with the poem by Lauri, Silence is palpable.
Current bid £11.00
26. Snowdrops
19 x 19cm, 10 pages. Heavy cartridge paper book with Clare's snowdrops print on the front & Snowdrops poem (by Lauri) inside.
Current bid£ 20.00
27. A box of gift tags
16 x 7x4cm. A handmade box of 50 gift tags, range of sizes.
Current bid £20.00
28. We are skylarks
11.5 x 12.5cm, 12 pages. Hand-printed, we are skylarks poem by Lauri.
Current bid £25.00
29. Bring mind and body home
21.5 x 15.5cm, 60 pages. Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh along the bottom of each page.
Current bid £20.00
30. Blue leaf
6 x 5.5cm, 124 pages. Small plain book with marbled leaf on the front.
Current bid £5.00
31. Printed leaf
21.5 x 15.5cm, 60 pages. Printed cover and printed leaf or heart on each page.
Current bid £15.00
32. A handful of hearts
14 x 12cm, 140 pages. Handmade paper with a heart on each page.
Current bid £20.00
33. Circular book
5.5 x 13cm, 384 pages. Colourful pages sewn into a circle, a never-ending book
Current bid £15.00
34. In out small book
4 x 3cm, 40 pages. Tiny book with printed words on each page of Thich Nhat Hanh's gatha in, out, deep, slow, calm, ease, smile release, present moment, wonderful moment.
Current bid £10.00
35. In out concertina
4 x 4cm, concertina. Pastel coloured handmade paper with threads. Concertina rice paper with printed words of Thich Nhat Hanh's gatha in, out, deep, slow, calm, ease, smile release, present moment, wonderful moment.
Current bid £10.00
36. In out long
7 x 2cm, concertina. Gold and cream paper with words printed in brown - Breathe & go slow, in, out, deep, slow, calm, ease, smile release, present moment, wonderful moment.
Current bid £18.00
37. Book decoration
5 x 5cm, 4 folded pages. Purple and pink decoration.
Current bid £8.00
38. Framed book
6.5 x 9.5cm, 90 pages. Small simple book made from handmade denim paper
with a colourful frame on the front.
Current bid £10.00
39. Coptic marbling
10.5 x 15cm, 124 pages. Purple pages with a marbled edging on the spine.
Sewn together with coptic binding.
Current bid £10.00
40. In, out windows
11.5 x 13.5cm, 24 pages. In, out, deep, slow, calm, ease, smile release, present moment, wonderful moment printed onto squares and hanging in separate windows, 1 per page. With a decoupage cover.
Current bid £18.00
41. Green jewel coptic
26 x19.5cm, 40 pages. A coptic bound, plain notebook with handmade thick cream paper and a green cover woven with jewelled papers.
Current bid £22.00
42. Pastel coptic
16 x 16cm, 192 pages. A coptic bound book made from pastel pages, graph paper and card of varying sizes (height from 9 to 15.8cm).
Current bid £15.00
43. Lotus book
14 x 14cm, 144 pages. A version of coptic binding with each signature being sewn directly into the outer spine of the cover & decorated with beads. The pages are two shades of lilac.
Current bid £10.00
44. Shakespearean love quotes
14 x 10cm, concertina. A luxurious concertina book with a love quote
from Shakespeare on each page.
Current bid £30.00
45. Book of charms
10.5 x 27cm, 96 pages. A coptic bound book with sewing charms attached to the spine. The covers are bound with thick handmade paper interwoven with threads.
Current bid £12.00
46. Lilac coptic jewels
8 x 8cm, 128 pages. A coptic bound book with jewelled beads decorating the front cover.
Lilac cover and pages.
Current bid £20.00
47. Magpie book
14 x 15cm, 22 pages. A concertina book encasing plastic pages
with a quote embedded in each page.
Current bid £30.00
48. Big book small book
16 x 22cm, 108 pages. A large sketch/note-book with two weights of cartridge paper & a tiny book
(3 x 3cm, 92 pages) as the closure. The cover is green & maroon bookcloth.
Current bid £50.00
49. Love poems box
12 x 12cm box , 10 folded pages. 10 love poems. Pages are folded into squares to reveal one poem at a time. Encased in a maroon and gold box.
Current bid £25.00
50. Thay the bodhisattva
26 x 21.5cm, 36 pages. Poem describing Thay's hands with each page as a hand. Poem is hand printed & each page is illustrated with henna type patterns. Coptic bound & decoupage cover.
Current bid £38.00
51. How long does it take?
11 x 15.5cm, 92 pages. A simple multi-signature book with turquoise and gold cover & heart bookmark.
Current bid £10.00
