Etsy Spotlight - Bookity
I am delighted to feature my top 3 from the fabulous Bookity ! About Bookity : Bookity is the brainchild of Lou based in Reading, Berkshire UK. Lou creates jewellery and decorations using old and unwanted books. Lou was inspired to start her business by a good friend, who had a second hand book business and a lot of unwanted or unsaleable books. She always keeps in mind that she is recycling a precious object - a book, and that people love them. After eight years Bookity is well on their way to their 10,000th sale! Lou's background and education had always been in art and design, and as a kid Ishe loved to make and to draw, yet somehow, by the time she was 38 she was fully ensconced in an academic job that really had very little to do with hands-on making, although Lou did work with other designers. Lou had the urge to do something completely different. Lou made the leap in the Spring of 2009, and set up Bookity a couple of months later, on a shoestring budget, in the spare ba...