Per­us­ing the June issue of The World of Interi­ors we came across an art­icle that made our jaws drop.

The work of Anan­dam­ayi Arnold.

This Amer­ican artist cre­ates sur­prise balls, which in its basic form is simply lay­ers of crêpe paper wound tightly around a little gift.

But Anandamayi’s cre­ations are so amaz­ingly intric­ate that you would never dream of des­troy­ing them. So the sur­prise gifts may lie hid­den forever.

Pic­tured here from left right; pomegranate, hand-painted pas­sion flowers, Jack-in-the-pulpits, radishes, a branch of quince, the bud of the Arc­tic Queen clematis con­tains the sur­prise, lilies, flower­ing cac­tus, cyc­la­mens with bulbs, and an unrav­elled pomegranate. (photo cour­tesy of ginny branch)

Sadly, Anandamayi’s sur­prise balls are only avail­able to buy from one shop, Tail of the Yak, which is in Berke­ley, Cali­for­nia. So, if any­one hap­pens to be passing…

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Last week there was an art­icle in our local paper about a com­pany called Rare Notions. Phiona Richards turns old books into sculp­tures and jew­ellery using tra­di­tional nee­dle­work techniques.

Phiona says on her web­site, “Hav­ing been brought up with a ‘make do and mend’ men­tal­ity I tend to col­lect and gather mater­i­als includ­ing books near the end of their exist­ence and regen­er­ate them into pleas­ing tact­ile struc­tures using a vari­ety of nee­dle­work tech­niques. Although they appear to be fra­gile and del­ic­ate they are quite robust and inter­ac­tion becomes a thera­peutic exper­i­ence on many sens­ory levels.”

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The second in our series of per­son­al­ized typo­graphic paper art prints.

This bespoke art­work is based on our ‘Jamie’ print.

A per­fect gift don’t you think?

Our bespoke paper prints are prin­ted onto a lovely heavy-weight 350gsm uncoated fine art paper with a tex­tured fin­ish. And they are pro­fes­sion­ally framed too, by Fine Art Trade Guild framers. Just to prove what a pro­fes­sional job the fram­ing is, here’s the back…

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Nat­alie Stopka cre­ates books. Beau­ti­ful hand­made books.

Nat­alie says she spends her days pulling prints and bind­ing books. Her books are bound with vin­tage fibres, repur­posed and hand dyed fab­rics, and acid free papers. Nat­alie is cur­rently restor­ing a Kel­sey Excel­sior press and learn­ing to use all the presser feet on her great-great aunt’s 1928 Singer.

Nat­alie sells her hand­made books via her Etsy shop Nat­alie. As. Is.

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Coulson Macleod has a massive love and respect for artists who cre­ate mas­ter­pieces with cut paper. Check out Laura Cooper­man’s intric­ate work…

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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Bovey Lee felt a spe­cial con­nec­tion to the fad­ing Chinese folk art of paper-cutting. Her work, using impossibly thin rice paper, is obscenely intric­ate and utterly beautiful.

Bovey Lee, “Spine”, 2007

Bovey Lee, “The But­ter­fly Gown”, 2010

Bovey Lee, “Tsunami-Enmeshed”, 2008

Bovey Lee, “Tsunami-Enmeshed”, 2008

Bovey Lee, “Atomic Jelly­fish”, 2007

(pho­tos cour­tesy of Beau­ti­ful Decay)

Bovey is cur­rently a full-time artist based in Pitt­s­burgh. Her works have been exhib­ited at the Brook­lyn Museum of Art;  Museum Belle­rive, Zurich; National Glass Centre, UK; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan; Hong Kong Museum of Art; and Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

Bovey’s art is rep­res­en­ted by Grotto Fine Arts Gal­lery in Hong Kong.

Do visit her web­site to see her enorm­ous col­lec­tion of work. Amazing!

I’ve just stumbled across a lovely shop called A Little Hut that sells hand­made paper products by Texas-based graphic designer and paper artist, Patricia Zapata.

Patri­cia has been mak­ing hand-crafted cards since 2004, and she designs and pro­duces everything that you can buy from her site.  She has also pub­lished a book on paper craft called Home, Paper, Scis­sors.  All of her work is hand-cut using mainly recycled paper.

I par­tic­u­larly love these gift boxes.  So cute.