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100 Reasons NOT To Kill Yourself

1. We would miss you. 2. It’s not worth the regret. Either by yourself if you failed or just simply left scars, or the regret everyone else feels by not doing enough to help you. 3. It does get better. Believe it or not it will eventually get better. Sometimes you have to go through the storm to get to the rainbow. 4. There’s so much you would miss out on doing. 5. There is always a reason to live. It might not be clear right now, but it is always there. 6. So many people care, and it would hurt them if you hurt yourself. 7. You ARE worth it. Don’t let anyone, especially yourself, tell you otherwise. 8. You are amazing. 9. A time will come, once you’ve battled the toughest times of your life and are in ease once again, where you will be so glad that you decided to keep on living. You will emerge stronger from this all, and won’t regret your choice to carry on with life. Because things always get better. 10. What about all the things you’ve always wanted to do? What about the things you’ve planned, but never got around to doing? You can’t do them when you’re dead. 11. I love you. Even if only one person loves you, that’s still a reason to stay alive. 12. You won’t be able to listen to music if you die. 13. Killing yourself is never worth it. You’ll hurt both yourself and all the people you care about. 14. There are so many people that would miss you, including me. 15. You’re preventing a future generation, YOUR KIDS, from even being born. 16. How do you think your family would feel? Would it improve their lives if you died? 17. You’re gorgeous, amazing, and to someone you are perfect. 18. Think about your favourite music artist, you’ll never hear their voice again… 19. You’ll never have the feeling of walking into a warm building on a cold day 20. Listening to incredibly loud music 21. Being alive is just really good. 22. Not being alive is really bad. 23. Finding your soulmate. 24. Red pandas 25. Going to diners at three in the morning. 26. Really soft pillows. 27. Eating pizza in New York City. 28. Proving people wrong with your success. 29. Watching the jerks that doubted you fail at life. 30. Seeing someone trip over a garbage can. 31. Being able to help other people. 32. Bonfires. 33. Sitting on rooftops. 34. Seeing every single country in the world. 35. Going on roadtrips. 36. You might win the lottery someday. 37. Listening to music on a record player. 38. Going to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 39. Taking really cool pictures. 40. Literally meeting thousands of new people. 41. Hearing crazy stories. 42. Telling crazy stories. 43. Eating ice cream on a hot day. 44. More Harry Potter books could come out, you never know. 45. Travelling to another planet someday. 46. Having an underwater house. 47. Randomly running into your hero on the street. 48. Having your own room at a fancy hotel. 49. Trampolines. 50. Think about your favourite movie, you’ll never watch it again. 51. Think about the feeling of laughing out loud in a public place because your best friend has just sent you an inside joke, 52. Your survival will make the world better, even if it’s for just one person or 20 or 100 or more. 53. People do care. 54. Treehouses 55. Hanging out with your soul mate in a treehouse 55. Snorting when you laugh and not caring who sees 56. I don’t even know you and I love you. 57. I don’t even know you and I care about you. 58. Because nobody is going to be like you ever, so embrace your uniqueness! 59. You won’t be here to experience the first cat world emperor. 60. WHAT ABOUT FOOD?! YOU’LL MISS CHOCOLATE AND ALL THE OTHER NOM THINGS! 61. Starbucks. 62. Hugs. 63. Stargazing. 64. You have a purpose, and it’s up to you to find out what it is. 65. You’ve changed somebody’s life. 66. Now you could change the world. 67. You will meet the person that’s perfect for you. 68. No matter how much or how little, you have your life ahead of you. 69. You have the chance to save somebody’s life. 70. If you end your life, you’re stopping yourself from achieving great things. 71. Making snow angels. 72. Making snowmen. 73. Snowball fights. 74. Life is what you make of it. 75. Everybody has a talent. 76. Laughing until you cry. 77. Having the ability to be sad means you have the ability to be happy. 78. The world would not be the same if you didn’t exist. 79. Its possible to turn frowns, upside down 80. Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive. 81. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Be your own hero. 82. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. 83. One day your smile will be real. 84. Having a really hot, relaxing bath after a stressful day. 85. Lying on grass and laughing at the clouds. 86. Getting completely smashed with your best friends. 87. Eating crazy food. 88. Staying up all night watching your favourite films with a loved one. 89. Sleeping in all day. 90. Creating something you’re proud of. 91. You can look back on yourself 70 years later and being proud you didn’t commit 92. Being able to meet your Internet friends. 93. Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate 94. Sherlock season three. 95. Cuddling under the stars. 96. Being stupid in public because you just can. 97. If you are reading this then you are alive! Is there any more reason to smile? 98. being able to hug that one person you havent seen in years 99. People care enough about you and your future to come up with 100 reasons for you not to do this. 100. But, the final and most important one is, just, being able to experience life. Because even if your life doesn’t seem so great right now, literally anything could happen

IF that isn’t enough:

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Bees

So being a mother, moving back from France, setting up my studio back in London, catching up with friends and family, plus bookbinding in my “spare” time have been keeping me very busy of late! I have however been able to steal a few moments away to reflect upon my most recent completed binding commission which kept me occupied during my final months in France and on my return to the UK.

There are not so many bees around in the garden now the weather has turned but they continue to buzz away on the cover of my most recent binding, “Randall Davies and His Books of Nonsense”, published by The Incline Press in 2014.

The title of the book doesn’t immediately conjure up images of bees, but the content of the text block is made up of 140 woodcut prints, each illustrating a riddle. In the words of Graham Moss from The Incline Press on his website:

“The charm of Randall Davies and his Books of Nonsense is a gentle, dare we say it, ‘antiquarian’ sort of charm. Light verse joins early woodcuts for a very English offering. Davies’ 'Lyttel book of Nonsense’ was first published in 1912, and is a classic of the form. Philip Sainsbury’s beautiful Cayme Press production 'A Little More Nonsense’ that inspired us to follow suit with this classic and long-overdue reprint. Davies re-captions his extensive collection of woodcuts with a thoroughly modern twist long before the craze for tweeting amusing captions below early book illustrations took hold amongst the historians and librarians of our acquaintance. We’ve combined both books in one handsome volume that includes all the cuts with their limericks, and a twelve-page introduction by book historian Paul W Nash, no mean versifier himself, and past master of the limerick.”

I have long wanted to do a binding with bees on it so when reading through the text block the following riddle was a natural choice for me (and the fact that I have family from Perth in Scotland!)…

I knew from the beginning that I wanted to base the design on the hexagonal pattern of honeycomb so set about designing endpapers with this imagery on them. To try and stay in keeping with the woodcut prints in the text block I decided to print the endpapers and doublures from a lino tile.

The first lino prints were made on papers of different colours in order to test the best combination of ink and background colour.

In the end I chose to use a smooth, pale grey Zerkall Ingres paper. The endpapers and doublures were printed so that the pattern would line up when the book was opened.

I designed the cover with the same hexagonal pattern on it, with a variety of bees buzzing around on the cover.

To better illustrate the riddle I decided to “award” some of the bees prizes by giving them a variety of medals around their necks, rosettes on their backs or trophies in their hands. This was extended onto the endpapers too by printing small trophies using hand-cut lino stamps stuck onto bottle corks.

I thought that a good way of creating the hexagonal honeycomb behind the bees would be using a variety of different techniques including: pressing into the leather, leather onlays and inlays, embroidered outlines, cutting through the boards and also tooled (either blind, with gold leaf, or carbon). The first step was to press the hexagons into the dampened leather. A lino tile was cut to do this with and repeated in the four quarters of the covering material.

Once these hexagons had been applied, I glued down the leather onlays for the bees’ bodies and the chosen hexagons. I chose to use Japanese paper rather than leather for the wings of the bees to create a look of transparency. The whole covering leather was then back-pared and was ready for the embroidery.

I used a variety of different stitches to build up the design. The back of the leather was marked to ensure I knew which of the hexagons were going to be tooled and cut out through the boards.

Once all of the embroidery had been done I was able to stick the leather onto the book using paste. Once dry I chiseled out hexagonal-shaped holes through the front a back boards to reveal the pattern on the endpapers inside.

For the rosettes and trophies I decided to shape and gold-plate brass pieces to then add to the binding. I soldered posts onto the back of these so they could be inserted directly through the boards to ensure permanent fixture.

A hole was drilled through the board at the correct point, and a sunken recess created by blind tooling an impression in order for the metal pieces to sit more flush on the cover of the binding.

The client requested an oak box for the book so this was machined to the correct size, hinged, lined and a clasp attached.

The lid of the box was drilled through a paper template and embroidered with more hexagons.

The title was tooled in carbon onto a section of the patterned endpapers and applied to the lid of the box.

The sample board for this binding is number 41 in my ever-growing collection and further images of the binding can be seen on my website. I’ll leave you with a few completed book and box shots and will endeavour to get back to blog writing more regularly over the coming months!

FULL COVER…