Crafty Green Poet

During the time between the two world wars, a small village in the English Lake District is threatened with destruction to make way for a da...

On 10 November, 200 bloggers will simultaneously post reviews of 200 books printed on environmentally-friendly paper. By focussing on books ...

I thought it might be nice to revisit the altered book I made after I'd visited Italy a few years ago now. I made the book from an old...

Yang Lian has been hailed as one of the most innovative and influential of Chinese poets. This collection certainly supports that view. The ...

I mentioned a while ago that I had found the perfect book to alter (because there are missing pages and pages repeated) and I've now at ...

I had picked up a copy of Fly: An Experimental Life by Martin Brooks from a second hand shop. I noticed it had been withdrawn from a librar...

Inspire Me Thursday's art journal challenge this week is to journal our favourite holiday souvenir. This gave me an ideal opportunity to...

Inspire Me Thursday recently had a makeover and is a now a wonderful resource for inspiration for crafting bloggers. This week's prompt...

The background to this page is an article about holidays in the city, so it seemed an appropriate background to a photo of Turin and some ti...

This page of the book features the Hanbury Botanical Gardens, on the coast between Ventimiglia and the French border. The background is a p...

I'm much happier with this page than with the earlier page in the book! We visited the Museo di Antichita in Torino so I've pasted a...

Now that I'm back from Italy, I'm starting to put together my first altered book. The book itself is mostly in Italian, which makes ...

I've become fascinated with altered books - old books used as a base for making art journals or other pieces of art. This book is a 1970...