Studio Tour and Walk Through Here at Book and Paper Arts

At last, a studio tour! This walk through will show some of the good stuff that lives in here and is my special world, a room of my own. It’s actually only part of what is on shelves and boxes but well, I had to start somewhere.
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[@turkeyduck6]

Thanks for inviting us over to play ♡

[@BookandPaperArts]

It is my real pleasure, Adrienne.

[@LouiseAdie-zm2jf]

What a gold mine!!! Thank you for collecting and saving all these treasures!!! You're brilliant, what a pleasure to 'visit' with you. 🦋

[@nicolaj3294]

Hi Kelly, I could happily rummage around your lovely studio for days! I love old keys and boxes too. Thanks for the tour. By the way, I've been doing my husband's family history and they were welsh being Jones. They owned a pub in Blaenau Ffestiniog. We will have to go and visit some day, been years since we were last in the UK. Hello Gabriel🖐

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Nicola. Yes, Jones is a common name here. Every time I buy an old family bible I think to see if the descendants might want to have it and every single time the family name is Jones! So that doesn't really work. 😁

[@sharyndj7404]

Such a magical studio…filled with the wonders of days gone by. It is the stuff of dreams…storied old pages, ephemera and bits and bobs from another time. I am so so happy to have discovered your channel!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Sharyn. I am glad you did, too. And believe me, I do just sit around and gape at this stuff when I am alone. 😺

[@socorrocastorena3862]

Wow!!! It's like I'm in a candy store!! Except it's ephemera!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your studio, it certainly gets my creative juices going. You're so so talented and I'm so glad I found you!! Have a beautiful day and sending love and good mojo from Tucson, Arizona!❤

[@BookandPaperArts]

Well hello and welcome, Socorro. I have always wanted to visit Arizona. Maybe someday. Have a beautiful day there and best thoughts from Wales.😺

[@claireskey5439]

Hey girl.❤ Now that is an incredible view from your studio,! Love your tour , a thousand gazillion? Thankyou so much for sharing your happy place. Ah, you're the keeper of keys? I also hate, matchy matchy and prissy clean stuff. And if i tidy stuff i can never find things! Much love.🇭🇲❤❤❤

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi there. Thanks for this. I mean to redo this someday but with my husband as cameraman it was a ton of work so maybe we will skip that. 😺I am good with messy - I have to be - but from time to time I do a deep(er) clean, otherwise I am just moving stuff from pile to pile and it ends up taking more time to find one piece of paper that I have buried in a pile than to clean and put it where I can find it. Does that make sense? Also, I always find tons of lost art supplies when I clean so there's that.

[@loriricci9383]

Incredible environment! You are so fortunate to have acquired such a plethora of beautiful pieces. May your talents continue to amaze not only your audience but your truest inner self exploration.

[@rayanneedwards8542]

Greetings from Nehalem, Oregon, USA...I recently found you on KZbin...Lucky ME! Your studio is lovely. I am a paper junkie so I can so relate to your amazing stash. You are such an inspiration love your Art work. Thank you.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hello and welcome, Rayanne. Thank you so much for your kind words. It really does make my day. Stash-wise, I have to cull ruthlessly from time to time but it helps as I am of a certain age (ahem) and have a better sense of what I will really use in the time I have left and what it is holding on to paper and stuff because it is here. Oregon, eh? I have heard that the weather can be similar to what we have in Wales: wet but very pretty. Kelly

[@weaver7249]

I love your studio. I just knew it would look like this. your great!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you for the vote of confidence, Dana. Every time I try to clean it and make order my husband yells at me and asks Who wants a studio that is all orderly??? I try to hit a happy balance. 😎😎Kelly

[@robertakeirn1870]

“This is my pile of vintage French linens…” I almost blacked out!!! Love your tour, thank you!! 🖤

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Roberta, that is hilarious as that is the way I feel when I see these things in the wild - I want them all. I feel it is a sign of growth that I can leave some of there for others now rather than acquire them compulsively. Partly because I live in a small flat and there are only so many French linens you can use. Maybe if I had the rambling old farmhouse. Sigh. In the next lifetime???

[@melissaduncan9988]

I adore studio tours! Thanks. I love the space and the location. What a great place to work! Your husband has a great voice too.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Melissa. Yes, I am very lucky with the view and it is just around the corner from where I live. Gab says thank you! When we lived in Tennessee the locals never stopped asking him to "say something". 😁😉

[@juliezappa6399]

HEAVEN !!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Julie, your comment made me laugh out loud because I couldn't agree more. I am a very lucky woman and a blessed one and my studio looks like the inside of my head and makes me very, very happy. 🌻🌼🌷Hope you are having a creative week! Kelly

[@roseybud9646]

Such a very organized and wonderful studio. It's full of nostalgia and vintage glory! Ty for sharing your happy place.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Rosey, I do find that having things in boxes of their own helps. I would sub-divide it even more but 1. space and 2. time. It does make me very happy. 🌷🌷

[@123.ABC.33]

I so loved seeing your studio. It looks like a true artist works there. You have so many yummy goodies to create with. My studio looks like a tornado went through it but, as you say, I know where everything is and can find it to use. Thanks for sharing.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Lynne. Thank you very much for touching base and those kind words. But believe you me, it has its tornado days. Often just after a youtube video taping as in the interest of continuity (as we big time filmmakers call it) I throw things on the floor just out of camera range and reach for something else. A video often takes as much as six hours to make so at the end those papers just stay where they landed! For a day or so, anyway. 😁

[@camilliasornstein8808]

Thank you for sharing your "sacred" space. AND thank you for not having a studio where everything is perfectly arranged. My area is small, a mess but I know where I put "stuff". Awesome!!!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hello Camillia, welcome to the controlled chaos club. Actually every time I start to clean and organise Gab yells at me and tells me it should be more romantic and "artsy". Who am I to argue???

[@diane2941]

How nice to see your studio and meet your camera man!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Diane! It is nice to be seen.😎 And I will tell Gab.

[@jennygilvarry4561]

Hi Kelly, thank you so much for showing us your studio. I love it so much, especially all your books, ephemera, hats, in fact everything. Also your hair is looking great. Your hubby did a wonderful job filming. Look forward to your next video. Love Jenny xxx

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you for all this, Jenny. It is fun to film with Gab but he is still training and will drop the camera and film the ground a surprising amount of the time! And that is what we have "delete" for, no? And thanks about the hair - I will be pleased when the colour is all out but it is taking way longer than I thought. Maybe this fall???

[@Bobbie92]

Love your studio...

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you, Bobbie. It is a very special place, especially as I live in a tiny apartment. This is where all the sprawling out occurs. 🌷🌼🌻

[@lwhitaker4054]

Love this look at your studio! I imagine walking in and sighing in happiness! Thank- you, made my day.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you! It is a special place.🌷

[@rpetrie9197]

What a beautiful studio in a perfect location. X 😊

[@BookandPaperArts]

It is a delightful place indeed. 🌼🌼

[@GillianCrossArt]

Hehehe "I don't think he knows what KZbin is!" Lovely little studio, I'm amazed by the amount of things you've managed to fit in there.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Gillian. Gab is a delight and knows tons of stuff but sometimes he has glitches in his information. And a lot of this WAS in a one bedroom flat at one time. Under the bed and over all the cupboards.🙂🙂

[@debsmith7050]

Creativity inside and out! Bet you enjoy coming to work :) I surely appreciate seeing your studio. TY Nice to have you say hello Gaby

[@BookandPaperArts]

Gab says hi back, Deb! And I love my job. I am one lucky woman.🌼🌼🎨🎨

[@roksannastephens4375]

Beautiful!!! Your entire studio is a work of art!! Ty for sharing, the both of you.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Roksanna!🌼🌼

[@roksannastephens4375]

@@BookandPaperArts you're welcome

[@loisraphael9748]

A treasure trove, a jewel box! Thanks for sharing the tour of your studio.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Lois, it is truly a jewel box, if by jewels you mean mouse-nibbled paper and distressed books. It is quite the Aladdin's cave and I love it so. 🌻🌻

[@UrbanGrrl69]

A magical tour of your space Kelly, very organised I think. The altered piece on the wall with very large fly kept catching my eye, at least that’s what I saw. I’d love to run my own little arts gallery shop, in my list of dream jobs.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Pauline, it is giant bee on an altered book cover. Because bees make everything better. (Unless they get in your sleeping bag which actually happened to me once while camping.🐝🐝Keep dreaming that dream job - I didn't get the studio until I was in my 50s and then some but it got here in the end. Off to Amboise tonight !

[@UrbanGrrl69]

@@BookandPaperArts Bon voyage

[@ginainfantino411]

Loved it! That’s what happens when you expect more from a husband. Enjoyed both of you, and I love your studio! Thanks for sharing!

[@jodimartin4250]

Wow 😯 Kelly. You have a awesome space filled with wonderful things from days gone by. I’d love to come and rummage through your things. Lol 😝 Love your husbands accent. Maybe one day you would tell us how you ended up in Wales. 🤔 Thanks for the tour. 💐

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Jodi. Thanks a bunch and I'll tell Gab. (He got that a LOT when we lived in Tennessee!) It is a long story about getting here but here I've been for 17 years and I don't even think of it anymore. 😺

[@sophiewagstaff2081]

Loved this!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Sophie !

[@kathysaleeba3397]

What a delightful studio! I would have too much explaining to do if I let my husband record a tour video. My tidy endeavors last about 5 minutes. Thanks Dr. G for being a great sport!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Well, Kathy, you actually nailed it. Gab and I argued and he kept trying to get me to stand here or there and do this or that and I overruled him except sometimes he was right and - you use up a lot of marital capital making a video together. 😉

[@fifidubois5514]

I could live in your studio. 😂 Full of wonderful treasure. Even the smallest piece of paper. Wonderful. 💕

[@BookandPaperArts]

I have wondered more than once if I could get a camp bed and a microwave in here and pretend it is a tiny house. Hmmm.😉

[@fifidubois5514]

@@BookandPaperArts Sorted !! 💕

[@lynnboyd33]

Good Golly Miss Kelly! What a fun and inspiring place for you to work! In so many ways you are amazingly organized, and yet, thanks for sharing some of the scattered stuff under the desk! It's REAL! In this biz of collage books and papers, they may be pretty thin and flat, but they can still very easily, get outta hand!! Thank your wonderful hubby as well, for filming this peek into your life. It always seems that when you actually get to see where some of your fave creatives work, you just feel like you really know them a lot better. Thank you, and you have a safe and exciting jaunt to France the end of this week! Can't wait to watch your adventures on here.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Lynn. Yes, actually I am fairly organised. It takes time but if I don't then I am just searching through piles and never finding what I want. Okay, gotta go pack now and get my vaccine info and tons of stuff to break the orbit and get out of here! More soon, my dear.

[@D10DeLuca]

Thank you for the peek around your studio and what a fantastic find on your book press!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Ned. I almost swooned when they told me the price. It had been £15 but no one had bought it all morning so they asked if I would consider paying £10 ! That was a good day.

[@keystojournaling9290]

Kelly!!! What a great video! I love your workshop from its location to the reality of the work area. Omg... I want to visit and go car boot shopping with you. This is the best video and you made my day! You are a true artist 🎨 ❤️

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Laurie. That means a lot to me. And I am so lucky to have this place which is only five minutes' walk from my flat which means NO excuses not to go to work.😺

[@keystojournaling9290]

I want you to know that I did share with my Instagram peeps! Just thinking what about doing a buy me a coffee on KZbin?

[@gailschmidt]

Thanks for the wonderful tour and being real! Cool studio!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Gail. At my age I can afford to be real, and it is good fun. 😺

[@rosannagajdanelson999]

This was delightful and inspiring! Thank you and your husband!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you, Rosanne. And I will certainly tell Gab. He is so tickled.😺

[@KatheD]

This was totally fascinating and delightful - thanks so much for the tour!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Kathe. It is my very real pleasure. Thanks for checking in! Kelly

[@sunnie2474]

What a lovely studio, and there at a marina with a window! I did not see any "mess' at all!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Sunnie. It is actually zoned commercial and does have windows for display. Not much foot traffic except in school holidays but when there is, it is lovely to have visitors.😺

[@La1Senora]

Greetings and Salutations, Miss Kelly! Your studio is a fabulous extension of your completed work. I also gleaned some creative inspiration from this. I've been a life long journaler, but I'm fairly new to junk journals & altered books. I've become a bit overwhelmed with how quickly junk journal materials grow. I noticed that, unlike mine, your stashes are congruent to your finished art. I think that is because you've nurtured and developed your unique artistic vision and voice. It's going to help me move beyond techniques to more thoughtful and deliberate expression in my own creative endeavors. Thanks for sharing!💐A little tip of mine: I use a decorative yard tile for a book press. Bonus: leaned against my shelf, it doubles as a decorative element.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you for the thoughtful comment, Debra. I like that yard tile idea: it's all about being resourceful, isn't it? When this was my hobby I had cuttings in envelopes, then shoeboxes, then it got to where it took more time to find something than to make something. I bought my studio six years ago and now have the luxury of bigger boxes devoted to one topic. It is still messy but more organised chaos than anarchy. 😎 Kelly

[@lolly7608]

Oooohh such a great seeing your studio … and hearing Gab! 👍

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Lorraine. He is a nice Jewish boy from Manchester but has lived in Swansea for many, many years. The sun came out! And you?

[@reginaeid1568]

OMG- you have your own room filled with yummy paper, and your own angel Gabriel ! Thanks for the awesome tour🤩

[@BookandPaperArts]

He is an angel but he actually goes by Gab as in "gift of" and that'll work, too. Thank you, Regina!😉

[@karenlulay]

Loved seeing your studio. Looks so cozy and inspiring.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Karen!🌷🌷

[@blanchetait8063]

Fun tour of your studio Kelly! Loved all of it. Maybe one day we will visit Wales and drop by🤗

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Blanche. You would be very welcome and it would be a treat to visit. In some ways Wales can be country-fied but it also has incredibly natural beauty and would make quite the holiday!

[@DonnaVintageSnippets]

How exciting to see your charming studio! It is lovely and thank you so much for showing it to us. It's amazing how much we are all alike. I love your rosaries and I collect them, too. A shrine in a cigar box sounds very interesting.....

[@BookandPaperArts]

Donna, I would love to compare notes. Maybe one day we can meet on Skype or whatnot. I have one cigar box that opens in the middle to either side and I mean to make it into a triptych. One day. 🙄😉🎨

[@DonnaVintageSnippets]

@@BookandPaperArts Hi Kelly! We can always chat through Etsy or Instagram!! I'm more comfortable with that than something like Skype, which I don't have. I just have to say, though, I think you are more of an artist than I am!

[@marmaz57]

This was really great! Thank you so much for sharing! Everything about your studio inspires me. Loved your laughter with Gab at the end! Going to check out your courses, now. Thanks!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hello and welcome, Mary. Yes, I am very lucky woman - an Aladdin's cave and a husband who makes me laugh!😎

[@mariamitropoulos7130]

What a beautiful studio!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Maria. 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

[@karenr190]

I love your studio. I admit that I was checking out the reflections in your glasses to see if I could get a peek at your husband. 😂😂

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Karen. I like to keep a little mystery around him. He gets an occasional cameo.😉

[@sheryllamoureux1068]

Oh my, I shouldn't be surprised but your studio is so much like mine I'm flabbergasted. The hats, the keys, the boxes of ephemera (although my backlogs are stored in Itoya portfolios) I have boxes for flowers, birds, butterflies, cats, and business ephemera. I hang my specialty papers on old wooden skirt hangers and my book press is made of iron acquired through similar circumstances.I even have the rosaries although mine are from Mexico and South America. Ah, serendipity.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Holy macaroni, this is amazing. Down to the paper on skirt hangers. I did have to look up Itoya portfolios. They look classier than my bunged up Rubbermaid but they do what they say on the tin and when I think about a better system I get distracted by making stuff. As for hats, I got into all of this (in a very winding way) through hats. Where is your studio, Sheryl? Can I come and live there? Kelly

[@sheryllamoureux1068]

@@BookandPaperArts If I can visit yours while you visit mine

[@thegildedpaintbrush9276]

I love this! I wish I could come visit your studio in person! If I’m ever in the area I’ll be sure to say hello and 🤔maybe ask for recommendations for vintage book and papers supplies! What a treat to the eyes. I’m sure they have amazing textures too! Just wonderful… thank you for sharing! Oh and .. Hello, 🤗 hubby Gabe! 🤭

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Laura, please come and visit anytime. Have you seen my video on how to find old papers and whatnot? kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3SamJdqZatmZtU

[@dianefallon8471]

Thank you for sharing. This was so lovely.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you, Diane. It was a messy but happy day. 😺😺Kelly

[@dorothycmc]

I was hoping you’d do a video like this. What a magical place. I could live there.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Dorothy. I have thought of putting in a camp bed and a microwave and calling it a tiny house. But I guess there's tiny and then there's tiny!

[@mylittlemainecottagestudio]

Kelly, you always bring delight & this tour was super fun! Really liked how you shared with us all right out in KZbin land! Nice to hear your husband too! He did great!👍😅

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you, Valerie. This walk through was kind of harder than I thought it would be but I love it so much I wanted it to have its own day in the sun. Or mixed clouds - this is windy Wales, after all. Gab says thank you! 😁

[@heleneebenstein9120]

What a magical studio tour. Absolutely delightful. Compared to me you are very organized. I'll try to pick up some helpful tips from you.

[@isabellevaillant6666]

I really enjoyed looking at your art supplies under your desk! ...It looks like mine!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Isabelle. It is my to-do list to organise that sucker but I am too busy creating so messy and happy it remains! So glad you agree.🙂

[@CatherineSunnysideJournals]

What a delight. That was wonderful. Thank you for the inspiring tour.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Catherine. It was more daunting than I thought it would be!

[@kimssuitcase735]

Really lovely and inspiring. Thanks so much Kelly.

[@RandomArtist222]

So interesting 😀

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Susana!🌷🌷🌻🌻🌼

[@wertsdb71]

Beautiful studio. Thanks for sharing! 🙏

[@BookandPaperArts]

Thank you, Blake. It looks like the inside of my head. I am very happy in this place.

[@ymrabc]

Wow, I love your studio Kelly, I think I could get lost in there with so much interesting stuff to discover. I’m pleased to see that I’m not the only person who works like you, I try to keep things relatively tidy as I have my husband to consider but my love of making journals and altered books is gradually taking over our flat, I need to get organised but if I tidy up, like you, I can’t find anything. Tell your husband he is doing an excellent job as cameraman 👍

[@BookandPaperArts]

Yvie, the reason I bought the studio five years ago it because before that most of this stuff was in our one bedroom flat and I was pretty much informed it was becoming grounds for divorce.😁This place is small but around the corner from where I live and cheaper than getting a two bedroom flat and there you go. But when it was in the flat, I had those huge, flattish storage boxes that fit under the bed and all the paper and stuff went there every night. Keep on making! Kelly

[@itsamysticlife3500]

I can't tell you how much I love this video and your wonderfully inspiring works. Your studio is lovely. You've given me wonderful ideas on how to get my bits and bobs organized, as well as including an area to display pieces for sale. I'm definitely subscribing and will be binging as well. Thanks so much to you both for taking the time and effort to share your lovely space.

[@christicoffey6463]

Okay, when I first saw a video of yours (6/22/24) I felt like I knew you, and delighted that I was meeting someone with whom I share so much in common. NOW I'm convinced we are related, sisters! I was born in 1952, so am probably your much OLDER sister 😂. Thanks so much for your studio tour, it is a treasure chest of FABULOUS material, the organization of which of which I am intensely in awe 😮. You're a rock star.

[@Lucyverre]

Thank you so much for showing us your studio. It's great!

[@BookandPaperArts]

Lucy, it is my real pleasure! 🌷🌷🌻🌻🌼🌼

[@mysnowangelz]

the BOXES!!! omg.... thank you for sharing!! i liked how you have a smallish studio with very focused supplies. i have way too much stuff and don't know where to begin sorting, but that alone is very therapeutic for me. i think I'm subbed to you, I'm going now to watch some more videos!! TYFS 💛📚

[@aliciaharvey1]

Hey, Kelly! Thank you for the tour since it looks like we won't get to Wales until next year. Btw, Gab has a sexy voice☺️

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hiya Alicia. Yeah, he gets that a lot. We will just let KZbin enjoy his voice and keep everything else a mystery. 😎

[@debbieyanta5753]

You have a fabulous studio, and I loved the tour ...also appreciate the story regarding the book press that you thought you needed and alas what we think we MUST have and will of course use ALL the time,,,is not the case. I loved the big old stack of books for a WEIGHT,and the doily ontop is such a awesome touch. Love your channel, just stumbled onto it a few nights ago.

[@cherylmacedo5521]

Ok, I guess I should mention the studio…it’s fabulous. Your view is amazing. That book press in the window….it’s all a beautiful life…🤍🤍🤍

[@rickiquilt]

I love your studio!!! It’s amazing…thanks for sharing ♥️

[@kayhammock]

Hi. Great tour! I would definitely come in and stroll around. What do you make with the children board books? I always see them and can't think what I'd use them for. I also haven't made any bookcover art for the wall. I love the cigar box shrines. So many ideas my head is spinning.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Well Miss Kay if your head is spinning with ideas then I have done my job and that makes me happy. I strip the glossy paper from the board books, gesso the boards, then use it as a kind of art journal. Here is a video I made when I was on the design team for The Graphics Fairy. It is one of my early videos and the quality is a bit not great but it will give you an idea. I will be making more later in the year. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnTElYKJhdOLraM

[@karenselway836]

Lovely arty, artful studio. I love old books, they're works of art themselves. I've managed to pick up a few old beauties quite cheaply at Hay on Wye. I'm so jealous of that beautiful book press. It's gorgeous. I can't believe I've not come across you on our many visits to Swansea, it's a lovely place. Our daughter graduated from uni there last summer. We live just an hour's drive away.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Well hello, Karen. Yesterday I got a book from 1731 HERE IN SWANSEA. Minus the cover but with engravings so ding ding ding. My studio is in the marina. Please let me know next time you are this way and we can try to meet! Best to try to arrange it, if even vaguely, as I am not always in the studio. If you send me an email at [e-mail] I will forward you my mobile number. Oh, and Hay on Wye is my idea of paradise, or it used to be back in the day. Despite my (lack of) accent I have lived here 18 years and remember it when it was 40 bookstores, one down-at-hill teashop, and some sheep.

[@karenselway836]

1731! Does it still have a title page? Still quite a lot of book shops in Hay, although the children's bookshop Stella & Rose has gone but they do have a shop in Tintern, or they did last time we were there back in the summer. Thankyou for your kind offer. Would love to see your studio in the flesh. When I showed my daughter your video tour she recognised your studio instantly, though she thought it was a shop. Unfortunately you were closed otherwise she'd have asked permission to come in. Though she did have a cheeky peek through the window. ; )

[@BookandPaperArts]

@@karenselway836 Hi Karen, a lot of people think it is haunted as I am only in "by chance" and sometimes if the door is open they RUN in and say they were afraid I would disappear as no one is ever in. I do sell as a shop and have pretty things displayed but altered books are not big movers in Swansea. 😉 And more's the pity. I am going to be doing workshops at the Gower Heritage Centre this summer so - stay tuned ! Kelly

[@laracraft82]

Thank you for showing us around and I recognise the Swansea Harbour as walked around there before being quite close to us from Bridgend. I will have to check out the Swansea Carboot sometime.

[@BookandPaperArts]

It used to be halfway decent at the Singleton hospital car park but blast, it's gone. There is still one on Sunday at Liberty Stadium. It is big but not always the most inspiring. Still, a nice walk if the weather holds.

[@laracraft82]

@@BookandPaperArts darn were be away this Sunday but were be free for the next one. Never knew about it being the old singleton hospital car park.

[@laracraft82]

That red and silver book cover is stunning 😍

[@ochervelvet9687]

I’ve been fussy cutting while watching this video. What a charming space you’ve created to work in! And how glad I am to see a working studio that is not frighteningly clean and organized. 😅 I’m curious about two things. (Curiosity is only one of my besetting sins.) You have either an American or Canadian accent; how did you end up in Wales? And I note in your videos a preponderance of Catholic imagery. I myself am a lapsed (Spanish) Catholic, but I’m still very much influenced by my background. Much of that imagery still speaks to me (as well as mystical imagery from around the world). I’m wondering what role it plays in your work?

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you. Everytime I start to clean and organise my husband yells at me: "No one wants to see an organised art studio!". How I got to Wales is a long story and I am going to try to get around to an intro video about that before the end of the year. In the meantime - this is not my real accent so guessing won't help. I am from a farm in rural Mississippi and no, not even kidding. But I've lived in Wales for almost 20 years and I've been a UK citizen for over 12. Now, I am not Catholic, not even traditionally religious. You might say I am a Transcendentalist. But I work in old churches and abbeys a lot because they are where the stories and the history and the art and the culture and the whole-bunch-of-stuff about a place. The saints just kind of came second. Also, here is a piece I wrote about it. bookandpaperarts.com/saints-the-unknown-and-alter-egos/ Okay, off to get this day on the road. Feel free to ask questions (curiosity is my word 🦋) and share pieces of your own story. I really do like to compare notes - it's what makes the world go around. Wildly, creatively yours, Kelly

[@ochervelvet9687]

@@BookandPaperArts ♥️♥️♥️

[@ochervelvet9687]

@@BookandPaperArts Thank you for pointing me to your blog entry. That was fabulous. I absolutely agree that the world is mysterious, and in fact, we need it to be. In a lovely bit of synchronicity, I recently had an idea for an exhibit and a local gallery bit-they want a proposal. The theme is Pantheon for a Modern World. Modern times have not made gods and goddesses obsolete. The complexity of today’s world is such that we need them now more than ever, but maybe in an updated version. I’m hoping to see artists submit either revamped or entirely new deities, angels, spirits, and saints. It’s exciting to think that maybe the gallery will accept the proposal. Fingers crossed!

[@BookandPaperArts]

@@ochervelvet9687 Wow wow wow. If the proposal is accepted please let me know. I would love to submit something, if you wanted. Re the blog post about saints - it was originally a newsletter post and when it went live I had about 17 unsubscribers the same day. 😮😮🙄🙄

[@ochervelvet9687]

@@BookandPaperArts I will definitely keep you posted. That is so weird that you lost subscribers. I hope time has replaced them with viewers who follow you because of your art and not your religion.

[@cherylmacedo5521]

Can’t wait to hear the hat story…..🎩🎩🎩🎩

[@cherylmacedo5521]

Aren’t you modest…. I spied the book you penned right away 😉😉😉

[@lauramarycann9590]

Fabulous , enjoyed watching your art space pity you are so far away. I would definitely drop in for a cuppa.......... 🙋‍♀

[@koungson]

I love your studio ❤️

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why thank you! It is a special place.🌻

[@barrylytle5118]

Great studio! You've been collecting a very long time! The Marina....is it for Narrowboats? I follow a couple KZbin channels on Narrowboats. Loved the outtake at the end of the video vwith you husband. Hi Gabriel! Thank you for sharing your wonderful space!

[@jodimartin4250]

And the story of hat collecting that lead you to paper arts

[@BookandPaperArts]

Ah. I will put that in a video but the short answer is that I only wore vintage clothes for MANY years and that took me to vintage and antique shows to look for old fashion magazines and ads for reference points and that is when I became interested in old paper and ...there you go. I also did bookbinding for a hobby and they kind of came together at some point. 🌻

[@karenpuschmann4157]

Can I come and live with you. You have a magical studio..

[@BookandPaperArts]

You are very welcome to live with us, Karen! I have a tea kettle in the studio and it can be very cosy indeed. Kelly😺

[@laracraft82]

God certainly boosts my creativity Amen 🙏

[@cherylmacedo5521]

Oh My Me……this is what I have been (im)patiently waiting for……be right back…….

[@LadyJaneG]

I wish I could visit your studio! Enjoyed the tour! QUESTION: have you ever done video on using cabinet cards in art ?

[@BookandPaperArts]

Jane, you are always welcome! Hmmm, I have not done one on cabinet cards specifically so much as I have occasionally shown them in finished pieces. Let me add that to the list and see I can come up with something for later in the summer. Thank you for idea. Feedback really helps me plan. Hope you have a creative rest of the week! Kelly

[@LadyJaneG]

@@BookandPaperArts looking forward to that!

[@sirbimsaranadirangaalmedaa403]

Your videos are actually innovative I'm honestly thanking you to make my awareness about paper arts like this your studio is actually breathtaking you are maintaining it adroitly may i ask you a question please answer me if you don't mind i m actually would like to know what is your country? seems like Italy i also want to tell you something about anti government protesting events in sri Lanka yesterday the police became actually violated they were killed a protester by shooting and injured many more about 30 people so the government Imposed the curfew to that area i think now the government took their first step of violating on protesters now they attempted to kill innocent anti government protesters brutally i m actually disappointing about everything happening to my mother land my father is going send me to another country i will have to agree with that because it is the most safest decision has remained for me to survive from this critical situation

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hello, Bimsara. I live in Wales, in Great Britain. "they attempted to kill innocent anti government protesters" - this is terrible ! I can understand your father. I also would want my child to be safe in another country. I have good thoughts for you to be safe. Kelly

[@sirbimsaranadirangaalmedaa403]

@@BookandPaperArts Thank you for replying madame you are very kind!

[@cherylmacedo5521]

I love that you a. Got that book press for $13. b. It’s mahogany. And c. that you don’t use it. Lol. I’m using Michel’s kettlebell to weight down my glue jobs 🤣🤣

[@denisestone9119]

Love your studio!

[@lericamims]

My Ancestors are from Swansee, Wales!

[@jennyjunemoon-walker8739]

You're my hero

[@lericamims]

My studio is the same way!

[@tulamagoola]

What type of modge podge do you use?

[@BookandPaperArts]

Hi Sheila, it isn't modge podge but I sometimes mention it because we have to use what you have and a lot of people have that on hand. I use acrylic gel medium. Usually Golden or Daler Rowney, whichever one is on sale. It is thick but has a lot of "slip". This is from a UK shop but it will give you an idea of what it looks like. Let me know if I can answer more questions! Kelly www.jacksonsart.com/liquitex-professional-matt-medium-gel-237ml

[@lynetteparkhurst6803]

Please tell us the hats to paper arts story.

[@BookandPaperArts]

Well, well! You aren't the only one to ask, Lynette, so tell I will. Here's the deal - for someone who likes demonstrating creating stuff and who also has a big personality, I am loath to talk about myself too much. Always looking for that balance between being a real person in my videos and not veering off into LOOK AT ME territory that too many videos do (I am sure you know the type.🙄) But - it is a good story and involves antique everything so I will put the telling of it in the pipeline. And thank you for the idea! Kelly

[@vintagewriting]

More Gab Jacobs please

[@BookandPaperArts]

I'll have a word with his agent.

[@jennyjunemoon-walker8739]

Will you be my journal sponsor???♡

[@BookandPaperArts]

Why hello there. Not sure how heroic I am so much as very lucky, very blessed and very aware of it, living it big, happy, and mindful. Now, what is a journal sponsor? If you like you can email me at [e-mail] 🌷🌼🌻Kelly

[@laracraft82]

Hello Gabriel 👋

[@prof.gabrieljacobs1778]

Hi Lara. Thank for my first ever KZbin comment.

[@laracraft82]

@@prof.gabrieljacobs1778 that is so cool 😎 my husband gets dragged into my videos too as my only recording equipment is my digital camera Lols so either I'm holding it or Rob is my hubby 😀

[@prof.gabrieljacobs1778]

@@laracraft82 We also serve who only stand and film.