Born into a family full of crafty (in the best sense!) women, my mom taught me the value of a hand-written greeting when I was barely able to form the letters. Our shared enthusiasm for papercrafts - handmade cards and other remembrances - is still going strong. I spend most of my weekdays working at a computer (albeit luckily as a commercial interior designer - a job I love!), and while I enjoy the connection and communication available via the internet, I believe our world will be a bit less beautiful if we lose the ability to touch one another with our own handwriting, our own words in ink on paper.
My handmade cards are *all* one-of-a-kind, never-another-one-like-it original assemblages - and most are blank inside for your thoughts, musings, comments and doodles.
Selling her wares under the name Moonlight Bindery, Katie Wagner has this to say about herself and her work." I am a bookbinder/bookconservator/librarian born, raised and still living in the Metro Washington, D.C. area. Inspired by the collection of papers I have amassed over the years and in need of an outlet for my creative side, I create high quality handbound books and photo albums. On a more whimsical note I also have a line of notebooks created from salvaged boxes. The boxes are from here and my husband's native Germany. The notebooks are wire or spiral bound and run the gamut of the food spectrum! " Pictured here is one of her noteboooks bound in a Necco Wafer Box. What a wonderful Valentine for the literary.
