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I get such a kick out of seeing my customers using

I get such a kick out of seeing my customers using the products I make and it’s even better when their photography skills are so deliciously Instagram worthy! Thankyou @lindaherd59 wish I could be having that cake and eating it too!

It’s true, beautiful things have dents and scrat

It’s true, beautiful things have dents and scratches too.

“There was a sort of perilous pleasure...” I l

“There was a sort of perilous pleasure...” I love finding intriguing sentences that choose their own place by chance on the fronts of my book sculptures. I’ve titled this bust - ‘Independence’ - carved from 216 pages of What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge 1957 ...and some sneaky baby photo props of me! Not included! Phew I hear you say!

“Know your own happiness..” carved from 345 pa

“Know your own happiness..” carved from 345 pages of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I hope you are all carving out a little piece of happiness for yourselves today. This handmade handmaid is happily up online now.

Two new Book Tonics available on my site and one o

Two new Book Tonics available on my site and one of them hides a spoonful of sugar! That will help life’s medicine go down!

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New Years Day indulgent @countrystylemag read when

New Years Day indulgent @countrystylemag read when drawn to this beautiful room I discover one of my book sculptures resplendent on the coffee table! Further devouring, revealed the home of Jane Crowley @dirtyjanes_bowral who introduced herself to me @handmadeaust a couple of years ago. It was only the week before Christmas that I had taken my fools to Canberra and dined in and scouted out Jane’s latest emporium @dirtyjanes_canberra - ahh the swings and roundabouts of serendipity! Can’t wait for the February issue - her eye for the eclectic has such a charismatic charm. (Well worth the road trip if you haven’t already.)

It appears my Antarctica expedition was the highli

It appears my Antarctica expedition was the highlight of my Instagram year! And certainly my real life year too! Throw in some covid and a prescription for book tonic and Foolhouse made it to the finish line in novel shape! Thankyou for your engagement, it totally inspires and entertains me. I am hoping some new products in R&D at the moment will be able to be shown to you in person next year! I Hope it’s a year unlike any other!!😉😉

A view of the Eiffel Tower from my studio! It’s

A view of the Eiffel Tower from my studio! It’s the closest we’re going to get for a while!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! (F

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! (For 2020 that is.) I was surprised by the increasingly curious interest in my work this year under such hard-to-navigate new norms and considering my curios and I never met any of you in person this year, with no markets in the flesh, your commitment to virtual shopping sprees kept my little emporium alive and thriving. I am grateful daily that I get to make-over vintage books without getting a detention from the scary librarian! And I get to produce artwork and products sustainably and steeped in nostalgia and surprise. Merry Christmas. Enjoy your cheap lobsters!

I hope you too have fabulous outfits for your Chri

I hope you too have fabulous outfits for your Christmas Parties this year and ones not as fraught with danger as Donna’s! The work year is winding down and I couldn’t resist adding an indulgent illustration to the Foolhouse Collective - transforming this turn of the century show-off into something of wonder to pay homage to the glorious spiky nature of this year’s Silly Season! (You can slip into something more comfortable now Donna!)

That’s a wrap! For all you festive forget-me-not

That’s a wrap! For all you festive forget-me-nots that didn’t make the postal window you can still pick up Foolhouse gifts from my Inner West studio till the 22nd!

I think I’ve finally found the one!!!

I think I’ve finally found the one!!!

Red is not my colour...Anushka not happy to be mod

Red is not my colour...Anushka not happy to be modelling today, but her 84yr old sugar face was just singing out for a Santa suit and tree pose!

I made this little Secret Vintage Booksafe for a p

I made this little Secret Vintage Booksafe for a penguin lover I met on my trip to Antarctica this year - cannot believe I was actually traveling this year! Feels like a lifetime ago. Happy Friday everyone!

I didn’t make quite enough room for 8 candles!

I didn’t make quite enough room for 8 candles!

Happy 8th Birthday Foolhouse! This is what happens

Happy 8th Birthday Foolhouse! This is what happens when you are the solo queen of your creative domain, nobody else in the studio except me and my vintage book cake celebrating! Might have to rectify that! Type in FOOLSDAY when you purchase to receive $8 off! And a free Christmas decoration! Till 10.12.20 Real cake here I come!
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Thx to @deb1066 for making me sit still for a minute to think about my achievement and capture it! Xx

More 8th Birthday Treats! For the next 3 days EVER

More 8th Birthday Treats! For the next 3 days EVERY purchase will get a signature foolhouse Christmas Ornament PLUS +$8 off when you use the coupon code FOOLSDAY
Great Kris Kringle Kurios at www.foolhouse.com.au!

I can’t believe Tuesday the 8th Dec. Foolhouse w

Just finished a couple of Pride and Prejudice hand

Just finished a couple of Pride and Prejudice handmade Hand Maids. “Follies and Nonsense” is the perfect phrase from the book and can be seen on the front if you read between the lines! They’ll be up on my site tonight!

Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for hi

Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. I love this one.
He was also the author of “The time I kill is killing me." Me? I’ve always loved time, just wish I had more of it to do all the things I’m dying to do!

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