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Quirkish Designs Quirkish Designs are distinctive and unique - vintage, retro, traditional with a modern twist. Quirky and whimsical. Quirkish.

Designs are available in limited editions, then retired. Whimsical and quirky earrings and other wild creations for the whimsical, quirky and wild.

Which grrrls are in the front of the subculture?Who deserves a feature bookcase of their own?***** ...
30/05/2025

Which grrrls are in the front of the subculture?

Who deserves a feature bookcase of their own?

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Riot Grrrl collection*****
28/05/2025

Riot Grrrl collection

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Riot Grrrls represent*****
26/05/2025

Riot Grrrls represent

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Work in progress shot of the Riot Grrrl collection.*****
23/05/2025

Work in progress shot of the Riot Grrrl collection.

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Girls to the front with this Riot Grrrl collection!*****
21/05/2025

Girls to the front with this Riot Grrrl collection!

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Girls to the front!A celebration of the Riot Grrrl subculture and movement, featuring biographies, critiques and profile...
19/05/2025

Girls to the front!

A celebration of the Riot Grrrl subculture and movement, featuring biographies, critiques and profiles of the key personalities, bands and events.

Available at Button Empire in Gympie, or get in touch to buy it directly!

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05/05/2025

Setting the mood in the studio this month - an assortment of Russian music.

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Setting the dark mood in the studio this month are the sounds of Chelsea Wolfe, Invadable Harmony and Regnum UmbraeWhat’...
12/04/2025

Setting the dark mood in the studio this month are the sounds of Chelsea Wolfe, Invadable Harmony and Regnum Umbrae

What’s your go-to creative soundtrack? Drop your recs below. 👇

P.S. Watch out the full Gothic bookcase reveal later this week. 🔮
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This week I’ve been focused on building a new bookcase start to finish: Literary Gothic, encapsulated in 100x150mm (appr...
10/04/2025

This week I’ve been focused on building a new bookcase start to finish: Literary Gothic, encapsulated in 100x150mm (approximately 4”x6”, or about three quarters the height of a human skull 💀)

From key authors including Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) and Daphne Du Maurier (1907-89), to oddities of the Gothic genre such as Carmilla (1872), Northanger Abbey (1818) and The Turn of the Screw (1898), this sprawling collection includes miniature reproductions of so many classics, just much smaller 📖 .

To set the scene and provide context we have works such as Foucalt’s “Madness and Civilisation (A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason)” (1961), and Burton’s “The Anatomy of Melancholy” (1621).

Bringing the collection up to date are modern twists on the Gothic tradition - American Psycho (1991) and Boxer Beetle (2010).

As ever, the challenge is finding a nice broad spectrum of books to include, based on recommended reading lists and suggested starting points. These in turn lead through “Customers also bought…” and “People also searched for…” rabbit holes and beyond, into literary critiques, anthologies and various, ever reliable, University Press imprints.

With such a broad topic as Literary Gothic, there was no need to head into the travel section although there was the temptation to trace the journeys of Edgar Allan Poe from his birthplace in Boston, through New York (believed to be where he wrote The Raven, amongst others) to his demise in Baltimore.

(Poe’s death from alcoholism, an accidental or deliberate op**te overdose, rabies, carbon monoxide poisoning, epilepsy, meningitis, apoplexy, su***de, cholera, accidental or deliberate poisoning, manslaughter, murder, cooping, delirium tremens, a brain tumour, diabetes, heart disease, and/or syphilis, is hotly debated to this day, given that his death certificate is mysteriously missing...)

Who deserves their own bookcase?Emily BrontëEdgar Allan PoeH P LovecraftComment below!***** Secondary ...
08/04/2025

Who deserves their own bookcase?

Emily Brontë
Edgar Allan Poe
H P Lovecraft

Comment below!

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31/03/2025

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Miniature memory bookcase made as a gift for
03/02/2025

Miniature memory bookcase made as a gift for

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