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Hi friends,It's time for the biggest GIVEAWAY of the year! This Christmas, to show how greateful I am for your support of my work, I am giving the Turquoise journal to one of you who purchases a journal from my shop between November 12 and December 25, 2019! You can purchase any journal from my website or my Etsy shop, either way, you are in for the win. I'll randomly pick the winner on Christmas morning. Good luck everyone and thank you so much for being a TeoStudio customer

Each magic journal or book of shadow I make features a different symbol or a combination of them on its cover. I have quite a collection of symbols that I use and I wanted to talk about their symbolism and presence in my magic journals, grimoires or spell books. This is important because the choice of such journal is made in accordance with the personal beliefs of its owner. The Pentagram    During the ages, it also has been attributed a role of protection and good luck and it was seen as a symbol of physical and mental harmony. In...

There's something so fascinating in making teeny tiny books and journals, for me the smaller the better, of course! Whenever I need to give my mind a break and keep my hands busy I immerse into the production of a batch of these little beauties. I love to use vintage bits of leather that I have found at the flea markets and gathered along the years. The smallest I ever made? Earrings and necklace size, definitely. Check out my collection below. These I made over the years and now are all sold, however from time to time something like this...

I have been making journals with lock and key, or lockable diaries as I like to refer to them, since more than ten years. It's been a constant passion in my work and I love the challenge of finding new designs and original locking solutions, weather using the traditional lock and key, a padlock or another decorative closing system. Some of these journals have been so admired and requested that I now offer them on a regular basis or I can make them on demand. Such is the case of my most sold item, The Turquoise lock and key journal....

How do you properly care for your leather journal or binding? This is a question that I sometimes get asked by my customers, so I'm thinking it might be good practice to include an instructional when I ship out their purchase. I still want to create this blog post because I think it might be useful for different situations, leather goods differ a lot depending on their manufacturing process so they are not always taken care of in the same way. I might just start by saying that I am not an expert, I am a conservator restorer by profession...