What to take home Wednesday: Altered journals
The perfect journal is tangible (ie. not online), tactile and has lots of hidey-holes to stash the assorted paper detritus one accumulates over a 12-month period (think letters, bills, bad jokes from Christmas crackers, photos, business cards and difficult-to-decipher scrawled notes).
London-based designer Jessie Chorley makes altered journals from the body of an old book, and creates “new” blank pages from an assortment of vintage and recycled papers, as well as envelopes, stitched pockets and old-school typewritten messages and reminders. Beautiful and handy.
Jessie’s books can be purchased online, or you can buy them from her wonderfully whimsical stall, Un-Petit-Cadeau, at Broadway Market in Hackney on Saturdays.
Jessie Chorley
Un-Petit-Cadeau
Saturdays, Broadway Market
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Nearest tube: Bethnal Green Station
Nearest train: London Fields BR
For more market stalls and shops on Broadway Market, click here.
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(p.s. while you're there, check out the exquisite bird-themed jewellery by Buddug Humphreys.)
