An Amazing Fall Harvest Day in Kennebunk!

Thank you to all of you for stopping by the Book Charms booth at Kennebunk's Harvest Festival. Your wonderful compliments about Book Charms was so appreciated! If you expressed interest in our custom wine charms for an event -- wedding, baby shower, corporate event, upcoming birthday -- please give a call or email me at sdowns@roadrunner.com.

With our elegant custom wine charms, you can add the perfect accent to your place setting, while honoring a charity close to your heart. As we showed you, each miniature book wine charm includes the wedding details - names, location, date -- on page 1, and a tiny photo on page 8. The wine charms are wrapped in gorgeous decorative papers and slipped into an organza bag to match your place setting. Your tribute will then be recognized on the "thank you for attending" card, included in the bag with the wine charm. Here's an example:

"Thank you for making our day so special in every way. The greatest joy in our lives is the loving gift of family and friends. Please keep this tiny keepsake as a remembrance of the love we share -- and the cause we hold closest to your hearts. With our love always, Grace & Aiden." (A donation has been made in your honor to the American Cancer Society.)

Also, thank you to Home Accents in Scarborough, Maine, which now features Book Charms! Home Accents is an absolutely beautiful shop -- and its manager, Susan, is an expert Interior Designer who can help you create the home decor of your dreams!

New Marbled Papers - My Own!

I recently took a two-day workshop during which I learned to marble my own paper. Our instructor, Galen Berry, did a fantastic job demonstrating various techniques, then letting us try each out on our own. I left the workshop with close to 20 sheets of marbled papers, which I have been using to create Book Charms. Thank you, Galen, for sharing your expertise! Shown here is a sample of several of my papers.

More good news! We recently added a new product to the Book Charms line: Christmas ornaments, which also double as gift tags. Each is a book – approximately 1 ¾ inch X 1 ½” – and hangs from darling wire hangers created by my Etsy friend, Rae Lambert, in Ohio. They will be making their debut at various craft shows this holiday season, including the Friends of Well Library show, the Pumpkin Festival in Saco, Sea Road Holiday Fair and during Christmas Prelude in Kennebunkport.