Scissors & Smiles

Nah, I don‘t think so. When I was shopping today, all the Christmas sweets were on the shelves. So the countdown has officially begun. You can get ahead of the game in my Etsy store ;-)

While we are at mini book pins - I added a new title to the „library“. This is Orwell‘s 1984. Penny for size…

No fancy clips or funky text today, just a simple mini book brooch. 3 x 2cm, real pages. This is Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter. It even has the endpapers of the Potter books…

With a surplus of book pages clogging up my craft studio, I decided to create new packaging for the mini book earrings. Upcycling my craft stash… What do you think?? I have used the „Emma“ earrings for illustration purposes…

Surely one of the most beautiful book covers ever! Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Raven! It doesn‘t look that scary at all but it fits spooky month quite well. The earrings are so small, though, some of the intricate design gets lost. More pics here:

https://scissorsandsmiles.etsy.com/listing/858342876

Oh, and for more detail, The Raven also comes as a brooch, four times the size of the earring ;-)

#Orlando ! Not the place in Florida but the book by #virginiawoolf 😉

Small - bigger - Copy number 1. From earrings that are smaller than a penny, via a 3 x 2cm brooch, to the original very first printed copy of #JamesJoyce #Ulysses that is housed in Dublin‘s #museumofliteratureireland . I‘d say that handmade jewelry is a handy way to display your love for the hefty tome…

https://scissorsandsmiles.etsy.com/listing/1227961728

I love old books. The cover of George Eliot‘s Middlemarch transferred perfectly onto my mini book brooch. Just 3 x 2 cm but you can (theoretically) open the book and see the individual pages. They are not printed with the text, though - that would be impossible to do (and keep the pages in the right order 🤯) …

Have you ever noticed how big a penny actually is? My micro mini books are actually even smaller than a penny. But they are the perfect size to dangle from an earring. Featured in my clip are the #Tolkien books, a set of two pairs of earrings with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. There are lots of other authors featured among my mini book earrings.

Today‘s post is for cat lovers - and those who love reading. I mean, there is quite an overlap there…

The mini book pin is made with the cover from an American fiction magazine called „The Black Cat“. It was active between 1895 and 1923, and its covers always feature the eponymous black cat…