A Colour Change for a Bestseller

Up, Up and Away...Our bestselling Hot - Air Balloon Collection has changed.

Pictured: Landscape album in Hot-Air Ballon design (back) and Portrait sized Hot Air Balloon album (back)

The leather colour is now closer to crimson than brown, and the paper sides though still vintage and whimsical, have a much more colourful palette.  

What hasn't changed is the charm of the vintage hot air ballon design, the hours of work that go into crafting the books, the attention to the finest details - such as the hand decorative tooling along the leather spine and corner edges, and the classic raised bands on the spine.

It is a stunning handcrafted leather book, perfect for personalising with embossing of initials, a title, name or date.

Impress someone special with this personal gift.  Ideal gift for travellers, birthdays, or as a whimsical gift for new babies.

The collection includes the albums shown above and blank journals in two size options.  

Stylish Books for Stylish Travellers

Planning a fabulous trip?  

Our collection of travel journals, travel albums and, soon to be released, travel document wallets are a must see before you get away.

Travel seems to be on the agenda of a huge number of our customers at the moment.  Over the past couple of weeks, we have had many people visit our store looking for the perfect travel companion for their upcoming trip.  Our leather wrap journals have been a long standing favourite of travellers, but coming in a close second this month have been our very popular hard bound World Maps journal, and our newest arrivals from the Safari collection (pictured below).  

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One BIG request we received throughout 2014 was for a leather travel document wallet.  You asked and we listened....This week we have started working on some stunning soft leather document wallets with space for all your essential travel documents and cards.  They will be hitting the shelves (in-store and online) sometime this month so stay tuned.......  

A sneak peak at our soon to be released Travel Document Wallet.  Handcrafted from soft brown leather with blind stamping to the front.  (Available in-store and online from 24th March)

Want more ideas?  View our Travel Collection here.  Of course these are only a few ideas, you can see more of our journal range on-line - personalise it with stamping to suit your plans.  

Can't find exactly what you are looking for?  We also create custom bindings - so send us an enquiry with the details of what you require.

Want to see how we handcraft our books?  Watch our 3 min video to see our expert bookbinder in action making and personlaising a World Maps Journal.

Go Wild ....for Our New Collection

 Heading off on a great adventure?  Or have a 'Little Adventurer' in your house?  The Safari collection of journals and photo albums will suit so many occasions whilst remaining personal, fun and best of all, locally handcrafted.

Bound in luxuriously soft brown leather with elegant raised bands, you can complete the spine with stamping of a name, title or date.  Great gift for travellers, first birthdays, occasion birthdays, a bon-voyage or even a corporate gift.

The albums feature 30 dry mount black pages with interleaving tissue allowing photos to be mounted on both sides.  They are available in 2 sizes - a landscape album and a portrait album -so are perfect for adventures large or small.

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To create a gift with a special name, date or title embossed on the cover just select your personalisation before adding your book to the cart.  Find out

You can also see more of our collection in-store and in this month's window!  Check out the window display pics below.

March window - Safari Collection

Safari collection - wraps, journals and albums

March Window - Libris, View Street Bendigo

Safari Collection - Libris Window

Going Somewhere? We Have the Perfect Companion.

The most wonderful memories are often created in foreign lands.  New discoveries, getting lost (then hopefully found!), getting your wallet stolen in Bologna...o.k. it may not have seemed that wonderful at the time, but I can actually look back and laugh about it now! 

I love to look back through my travel journals and read all the big events and the small day to day things that happened on my overseas trips.   I am so glad that I took some time every now and then to jot things down. 

Whether you are heading on the trip of a lifetime, or just going interstate to catch up with family. Taking the time to write while you are away, will be valued by you and most likely other members of your family in years to come.  It can become your own little reference book when you are talking to friends about the quaint little patisserie you visited...what was it called again?...just let me check my travel journal!   And what about all the fabulous photos plus the extra paraphernalia that seems to accumulate while you are away...ticket stubs, postcards, a receipt from THAT shop you had always wanted to visit.  I have a solution for that too!  Keep your travel memories perfectly organised with a gorgeous matching leather travel album.  

Our leather bound journals and photo albums are exquisitely hand crafted from archival quality materials ensuring that your precious memories are kept in pristine condition for many years to come. Make your hand bound book truly unique by having the date or travel destinations embossed on the cover.   From the more traditional style travel journals to soft covered leather wraps or bright and cheerful patterns, we have a design that will appeal to every style of traveller.

Know someone going somewhere?  A personalised album or journal makes a thoughtful and impressive 'bon voyage' gift.   Some of our most popular designs for travel are pictured below.  For our full range visit us in store or you can check out our online store here.

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