New Website Launching Soon

My new website will be launching soon with many thanks to Marco Argentina. The current site was a quick pop-up done in one night, just to get me to the business launch date. Marco has taken the things I like about the site & blog and made a new template for me. It's brilliant. Websites must be able to evolve as the business grows, so this is version 2. A tutor recently said that eventually you don't even know the version number. As I'm quite a restless person, it won't be too long until I reach this point.

Went to Pitman Training today to sign up for a business social media course, I'm getting it on an ILA account, which is great. Didn't realise there was an exam at the end of it. I can do the course online at home, it will take 6 hours I think and I have a month to do it. Sounds good.

BTW. I've sold some books, so I'm a happy puppy.

Talk soon

Love & hugs
Angela xxx

1,000

The MBA Blog has now had over 1,000 hits. Thank you so much for dropping by.

Love & hugs
Angela
xxx

My 2014 Diary

I'm just about to start printing my new Filofax diary (yes, I have an A5 snake print and a blue personal size). The A5 Filofax, I use for my business organisation (I hate tearing pages out of a bound notebook and I rearrange my section quite a bit) and I'm needing to get at least January and February inserted into it. I create my own diaries from scratch. I make a double spread version with a week on the left hand side and an organisation page with To Do's, calls, meeting, etc, on the right. Similar printouts can be found easily online, but I prefer to create my own org page, I only want the stuff I would use and find it messy to score through/tippex headings for the anal me (only with paper, I think) to cope with. I'm not going to make diaries this year for sale, unless they are requested, just so I can work on building up my stock.

Off to use up some printer ink.

Talk soon

Love & hugs Angela xxx

New Notebook

I've got a new book in the works, a bit different from all the needle-felted notebooks I've been making. It's A6 size with hand marbled paper binding, with Costa Rican cigar paper signatures. It's going to be a one off ever. The paper hasn't been available for at least 10 years and I'm using all I have in the notebook. It will be available soon in my Etsy shop. I'm going to be doing a few more traditionally bound notebooks in the near future, I have a few sheets of hand marbled paper that I bought from a maker in the States.

I'll be putting a couple more needle-felted notebooks in the shop next week. I took the photos today, so just need to write the blurb. 

Talk soon 
Angela 
xxx

Madelaine

I would like to introduce you to Madeleine.

She is the front cover for an A5 journal. She is needle felted and bound to 2.5mm bookboard. Her neck is not attached to the board, so that she can have her necklace changed if a different look is wanted and earrings can be attached if desired. The buyer can decide how many sheets of paper they would like in the journal and also whether they would like 120gsm or 160gsm.


I'll be sorry to part with her when the time comes, but I'm sure she will ask one of her friends to come and help me with my bookbinding.

Talk soon

Love & hugs
Angela xxx

McLean Book Arts Launch

Today is the big day for McLean Book Arts (MBA). Champagne is chilling in the fridge and a dinner reservation has been made. We are going to combine 2 celebrations, the launch and our 13th wedding anniversary (13 is a good number and it will be our best year yet).

Today the website goes live along with the Etsy shop. I'm putting a few notebooks on today and then there will be 2 or 3 notebooks added per week and after that, as I make them. Nettie has kindly offered to display some brochures at H.W. McLean engravers in Paisley (big hugs) and my hairdresser Lia at Moda in Leith has kindly offered to take some of my flyers (also big hugs). Also a big thank you to friends who have offered to take some flyers/brochures and thank you so much for the beautiful flowers sweetie.

Talk soon

Love & hugs
Angela
xxx

P.S. Big thank you to Nettie & Hamish (MiL/FiL) for the beautiful flowers, very much appreciated. xxx

Three days and counting

Excited xxx