One week left...
to enter your poems in to the 'Unsaid Words' Competition. 20 poets will be published in a beautiful, full colour, limited edition artist book - the first official Trigger Editions publication. See the Unsaid Words Poetry page for details.

Price less bookmarks

100 'price less' bookmarks made from withdrawn library books and fragments of broken books found on the floor of Bristol University libraries. Finally complete, this edition of bookmarks will be given away through a project called 'Bookmarks VIII - Escaping the Library System' run by UWE.

Two limited edition sets of 'Library Dust' bookmarks have been created - 'Price less' and 'Worth less'. The Worthless collection can be purchased now in our shop.

My 'Worth less' bookmarks on sale at Checkout III last Saturday - soon to be available through our web shop.
Great to meet lots of new people, especially Amy and Laura from Robin & Mould - lovely, lovely things!

If you missed out on the wonderful cakes, music, stalls and screen printing this time there is one more chance 10th July.

Checkout

I will have a stall at Checkout this Saturday with new works for sale. Central Reservation is at the bottom of Stokes Croft in Bristol (Opposite Pie Minister) . Hope you can make it along.

Paper making

125 bookmarks made, just another 80-odd more to go!

This weekend I've been learning how to make paper (so much fun!). A lovely lady called Julie Roberts has been showing me the techniques. I wanted to make paper out of the withdrawn library books and 'Library dust' I've been collecting. I am so pleased with the results. We pulped most of the paper down to a stage where you could only see individual letters and then sprinkled in my Library Dust' - all the bits of brittle paper, broken leather and library paraphernalia I've picked up from the floor. The next stage will be embossing some text in gold on to one side.... might take some experimenting to get that right.

100 are to be used for Bookmarks VIII Escaping the Library System 2010-2011 and will be given away for free. I am also making another hundred which will be a little different and available from Trigger Editions at various artist book fairs over the next year. More pictures and details coming soon......

First Entries

The first entries to the Unsaid Words poetry competition have started to come in; many thanks. We're being very good and not reading them until after the deadline so that the poems remain completely anonymous until we have finished the judging.  I'm itching to look at them though! After all the time I've spent collecting the Unsaid Words and chatting to the people who have contributed them, I am so excited to read what the poets create.

Psalm Labels

Thanks to Judith Marshall for these lovely pictures of what she has done with her Psalm labels which are based on words taken from Psalm 139.

If you bought some psalm labels at my launch last weekend do send me your pictures too.

The Launch

The rush is on to get everything ready for the launch of Trigger Editions next weekend at the Spike Island Open Studios; work has gone to the printers, freebies are being made and the website is being transformed (hope you like the new look!). We are running a poetry competition to mark the launch. Have a look at the Unsaid Words Poetry page for more details.
See Spike Islands site for more info. on the Open Studios.

Checkout

Trigger Editions will be at this event in April selling our wares. Hope to see you there.

Made with my Psalm Name-Labels

Here is an example of a gift I made for a friend recently using my 'Psalm Name-Labels'. It is a gorgeous set of three vests for a newborn. The verses on top are from psalm 139 which inspired the name labels.

If you have some of my name labels please send me photos of what you do with them. I'd love to see your projects and put them up on the blog to give other people ideas. Happy creating!

Psalm Name-Labels are on sale at the various art fairs Trigger Editions visits or can be ordered by e-mailing Sarah J Trigg directly.