Wednesday, 8 Mar 2006

Look what arrived today! Beautiful stoneware vessels by Karin Eriksson, via Mirror Mirror. Actually, the package was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but we were out when the postman came, so I had to trudge to the depot today (in the rain) to pick it up. Well worth the wet shoes, though!

London Book Fair was, well, fair. I get a little nervous being around so many people, but I attended a few seminars which were actually quite interesting. Highlights include A) delicious Greek yoghurt+blueberries for breakfast and B) finding out that the wife of the man who does our bibliographic database software is a fan of my website (hi!). Seemingly not related to books, I know, but, uh. . . just ignore that.

One of the freebies that was being passed around was a nice, hardcover blank journal with "So & So Press's" logo on it.* I think I might make a fabric cover for it and use it as a drawing journal, once I feel like I can settle down to crafting again (the fair drained my brain). I also stopped by Chronicle Books' stand as everybody was tearing down stands on the last day, just to see if they were planning to dump their books in a skip, and whether I could have some first (how lovely are their books? The most lovliest of all America's books.). They were packing the books to ship back to the States, but one kind woman let me have a Lotta Jansdotter card set. I'm so tickled by the kind gesture, but I also feel slightly guilty/embarrassed, as though I'm a great big greedy mooch who's after free stuff the whole time.

Which I'm not. (I hope.)

*As far as I know, So & So Press doesn't actually exist. I'm reserving it for the name of my imaginary publishing company, just in case the name 'Clumsy Donkey Press' doesn't work out.