A colleague commissioned a trinket box as a gift for her friend's 40th birthday. The friend in question is crazy about Mills & Boon (apparently it's her guilty pleasure), so I created a trinket box that looks like a Mills & Boon novel. The synopsis on the back of the 'book' features the name of the birthday girl as the heroine of the piece, and her husband as the romantic interest.

My colleague bought some jewellery to place in the box, and presented it to her at the birthday party. Apparently she almost peed her pants laughing! Job well done I think!

A guestbook for a wedding:



Some photo albums for weddings:

Well, this one will hopefully be used to showcase some of the unusual notebooks I make, particularly the ones commissioned for special occasions.

I have a shop at www.thegiftshed.etsy.com where notebooks (and some other items) are available off the shelf, but I also take custom orders via the various forums I frequent.

If you like anything you see here and are interested in ordering something for yourself, then please visit my Etsy shop and send me a message via their system. Due to the nature of custom orders (i.e. they are usually customised and therefore worthless to anyone other than the person who ordered them) I will only accept commissions from new customers through Etsy in order to protect both myself and the buyer.