Funny how life gets away from you, how time flies and how easy it is to just loose track of everything. Especially given the state of the world these days. I’ve realized that I’ve been forgetting to take photos of the books I’ve been working on so here’s an update of some of my recent commissions:

First off: A wonderful custom order for a good LARP friend…

The cover is professional grade bookcloth. I love working with this stuff! The cover art is all hand tooled by me with gold leaf. The moon design is a tool I had custom made by Brien Beidler and it’s absolutely stunning. Complementing hand-marbled paper (purchased, I did not make it) was added to the inside cover.

Next up another LARP commission:

You can really tell the difference the lighting makes. The top and middle photos best represent the true deep royal blue of this bookcloth cover. Hand tooled by me with silver leaf and I’ve added some fun silver metal corners on the front and back edges. (And yes, I forgot to take a photo of the whole book when I was done! Something I definitely need to work on making sure I do moving forward.)

I’m thankful for my partner in gifting me this splendid English finishing stove! Without it I was attempting to heat my tools on our kitchen stove, almost ruining one of the tools in the process. Now I can safely and easily make decorative embellishments! (I’m actually pondering the idea of adding some gold detailing to one of my belts – TBD.)

I’ve also been working on an assortment of other random mini-projects as well, including this painting I’m gifting to a new friend:

Happy Halloween everyone! Please stay safe and I hope to post more updates regularly.

~*Twigg*~