Christmas Cards of Love (part 2)

   

Thank you SO much to the lovely children who came into Rogan's Books yesterday to create beautiful, original and fun Pop-up Snowman cards to send to the elderly residents of Airedale and Elcombe House. I had so much fun seeing all these snowmen come to life!

And of course, a BIG thank you to Rachael Rogan for inviting me. What a lovely way to spend a cold Saturday afternoon - in my favourite shop surrounded by beautiful books, cutting and sticking and making art, which will hopefully bring a smile or two to the residents' faces :)

My BookFest Workshop

The kids (big and small) got stuck in with stamps, stickers, pens and pencils!

Here are some fantastic covers!

And here are some of the "books" created during the workshop- a fantastic range of images and stories. What imagination!!

Some lovely spreads :)

And finally, a collaboration piece between my boy and his friends Tom and Emma. They spent close to 2 hours working on it as one big piece, and I loved watching it grow and grow. When we folded it up at the end, it seemed to take on a new life as a book, with each spread telling a different story.

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The workshop was brilliaaaaaant!! What a fantastic couple of hours watching imaginations at work. I LOVED the variety of work that was being created using the same materials. Everybody seemed to just get stuck in, telling their own stories in 3-4 spreads. I hope they will carry on making books and stories at home too :)