Happy New Year

Time for New Year resolutions and new beginnings. 

My plan for the year is to take part in more craft fairs and promote Novel Hovel as much as possible. I did a few fairs last year and I thoroughly enjoyed them. It is so good to get out and meet people and receive feedback on the items I have been making. It is also great to see what other people are crafting and getting ideas for new items I can use. 

The plan was always to expand my used book store to include any book related items; bookmarks, bookbags, reading lights, book covers etc. I have also decided to add bookart items. Many books I source are way past their prime or are out of date so I have been working on ways to save these books from landfill by creating something from them. Up to now these items have only been available at the craft fairs but I will soon be adding some items to the online store as a test. 

Craft fair stall 2015

Papercut pictures

Bookfold Mum

Bookfold Hedgehogs

Bookfold Hearts

Novel Hovel on Youtube

A little bit of free time can be a good thing. It gave me the opportunity to create a film reel of all the current bookmarks I have available. 

Progress

My range of ribbon bookmarks has now been loaded onto the webstore but I am adding all the time. It is becoming a little bit of an obsession with every spare moment used to wire up beads and play with colour combinations until I am happy. There are over thirty different designs already available with more planned over the next few weeks.

 

 

Just a small selection is shown here. Please visit the webstore at www.novelhovel.co.uk for more designs.

 

Webstore Launched

Novel Hovel the webstore is now open for business.

www.novelhovel.co.uk


There is still some tweaking to be done and still loads of inventory to upload but I decided to go live while I prepare the rest of my stock. Along with the pre-loved books, I am offering a range of handcrafted ribbon bookmarks.


Eventually, I plan to add other book accessory items such as bookends and childrens book bags. Basically, anything book related that I can think of.

Welcome to Novel Hovel UK

As a self-confessed book-worm it seemed only natural that one day I would expand my love of books to selling books and accessories online. It's very early days but I am starting to expand my inventory of good quality used books and adding a pretty line of handcrafted bookmarks. Selling used books online is never going to make me a millionaire but I do enjoy seeing a good book go to a good home.
I would love to have one of those tiny little bookshops that is packed to the rafters with every genre of book you can think of. A little desk in the back where I can get some writing done inbetween customers would be essential, of course.
Now where's that winning lottery ticket!