Istanbul Day 4

   

My last day in Istanbul (see day 1, day 2 & day 3) was spent going to the Archaelogy Museum, walking through the spice market & around the old quarter & seeing the Blue Mosque one last time! Here's a few things I saw:-

     

Amazing heads & the oldest love poem....

 

The tiled pavilion...

   

Beautiful Doors & Gates...

Carved Tombs...

 

 Amazing heads on Sarcophagi...

 

 Carvings & students drawing....

 

 More heads and ancient jugs...

    

Old writing systems and old patterns that could be still used today...

    

Small collections & beautifully patterned jugs...

More mosques...

 

 Chillies, Sponges & Sausages in the Egyptian Spice Market....

 

 Beautiful Old Wooden & Brick Buildings & Stray Cats in Gardens...

A different view of the Blue Mosque....

 

 Last minute look at the unbelievable Blue Mosque.

Thanks Istanbul for sharing all your great treasures!

Book a Day: Week 3

Here's the book's I found on my bookshelf for Book a Day: Week 2 (see week 1 & week 2 to catch up).  June 14- An old favourite: To Kill a Mockingbird June 15- Favourite Fictional Father: From my old favourite it's got to be Atticus Finch!

 

June 16- Can't believe more people haven't read: Out by Natsuo Kirino, absolutely amazing Japanese Crime. June 17- Future Classic: Lanark, a mesmerizing vision of surreality in Glasgow should be around for years & years to come.

 

June 18- Bought on a recommendation: I bought 'The Book of Disquiet' after one of my favourite songwriters (Roddy Woomble) mentioned in a interview that it was his favourite book and it fast became one of mine. June 19- Still can't stop talking about: Naoko by Keigo Higashino is really weird and creepy and the cover's pretty amazing too. 

June 20- Favourite Cover: Is too hard to choose, there are so many (and books I've already choosen) but this version of 'Quiet' by Susan Cain is one of them, beautifully appropriate debossing.

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 of categories for each day!

Beautifunk Etsy Shop

I love beautiful vintage objects, I love functional vintage objects and I really love beautiful functional objects! So I 've opened beautifunk shop to spread my love of beautiful functional objects, gifts and homewares.

  

Vintage Book & Wooden Hand Jewellery Stand

'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful' - William Morris

This William Morris quote sums up what things I'm putting in the shop and was an idea for the name of my shop 'BEAUTIFUNK' joining the words beautiful & functional! 

    

Beautiful Architectural Print & Embroidered Bag

   

Shogi Japanese Chess Pieces & Handmade Weaving Wall Hanging

 

& my Pandacat helping me take pictures outside!

See all my great finds in the shop & I'll be adding some new things in the coming weeks!

I also created the logo banner and am making linocut print business cards,
if you need any business design work doing why not see my portfolio website!

Custom Book Stack Print

I love books and love making products to celebrate them so after creating a Murakami & Austin Linocut Print

you can now get your own favourites on a Custom Book Stack Print of your own!

   

 Hand printed onto A5, 160gsm cartridge paper with hand inked typographic book titles & author names. Just choose your own 6 favourite authors & books and you can also choose what colour titles you want. Available now in my shop.

 

 I chose some of my favourite books for these examples, it was really hard to decide which ones to include!

What are your favourite books?

Book a Day: Week 2

       

Here's the book's I found on my bookshelf for Book a Day: Week 2 (see week 1 to catch up). June 7- Forgot I owned it: I totally forgot that Maigret has scruples and cost 2&6. June 8 - Have more than one copy: There are 2 copies of HP & the G of F in my house!

       

June 9 - Film or TV tie in: Tarrantino screenplay with great cover designed by pentagram! June 10: Reminds you of someone you love: Dervla Murphy books always remind me of my Dad travelling round Africa & Asia.

   

June 11 - Secondhand bookshop gem: Found this great art book tome in a 2ndhand bookshop, a really useful gem June 12 - I pretend to have read it: I don't really pretend to have read books, but nearly all the classics are on my never-ending to read list.

June 13 - Makes me laugh: A question that will always make me laugh!

If you want to join in & catchup check out the list
 of categories for each day (the hashtag changed to #bookadayuk because of some weird outrage from the 'original' usa hashtag users!)