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              Earth Day
            
            
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                Today is #earthday2021. Here at No Books HQ it’s #earthdayeverydayI create my art by hand folding the pages of real books, each one of which is pre...
              
             
 
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              Mailing Lists [kinda; not really]...
            
            
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                ...time and time again, since the dawn of time (well, I guess around the mid 1990s), anyone selling anything has been told and told and told and TO...
              
             
 
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              April.  Funny ol' month!
            
            
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                I think there's a general perception that indy artists and makers kind of only work on the run up to Christmas, maybe with a few summer markets thr...
              
             
 
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              Nothing is certain...
            
            
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                ...except for death & taxes!Luckily, no deaths to report, but that's the end of another financial year.  I actually look forward to doing my ta...
              
             
 
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              When is a day off, not a day off?
            
            
              by Jo Cowie
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                ...when you’re self employed and a week behind on your paperwork 😂 
It’s surprisingly easy to fall into the habit of working 12+ hours a day as sta...
              
             
 
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              Another day, another tidy...
            
            
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                It's Easter Weekend and glorious blue skies. I think the Scottish lockdown rules got lessened yesterday? Nice to see the great weather for folk fin...
              
             
 
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              15 hours later...
            
            
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                Only had one book to fold today, so planned a cheeky wee short day.  I'm a bit crap at those.  Ended up moving every single folded book I have made...
              
             
 
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              Behind the scenes of a small business is a lot of frustration...
            
            
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                I still don't really know what I'm doing here.  Speaking generally haha
              
             
 
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              If I had a pound for every time I've been told to start a blog...
            
            
              by Jo Cowie
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                ...I'd have a lorra lorra pounds!I first started my website back in 2014.  Now in 2021, my original host had really fallen behind the times, and ju...
              
             
 
 
 
    
    
    
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