SQUEAKY BINDERS
Lockdown Lawn
Where the Grasses and Wild Flowers flourish…
4 Designs
The Grasses, The Wild Flowers I, The Wild Flowers II, The Compilation.
Available as
Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘‘Lockdown Lawn’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.
“A broken mower and Lockdown allowed a delightful array of wild flowers and grasses to rewild my front lawn. The fascinating diversity of plantlife that I discovered flourishing there inspired me to create these original coloured pencil drawings.” Learn more…
This inspiring little ‘Lockdown Lawn’ handmade First Choice Edition notebook is covered with a striking ‘raspberry’ bookcloth protected by its own exquisitely illustrated dust jacket.
Inside, we use our own in-house designed ‘Squeaky Binders’ endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Lockdown Lawn’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such a fabulous gift for creative writers who have a story to tell and a friend to acknowledge.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the ‘Lockdown Lawn’ illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words.
“A broken mower and Lockdown allowed a delightful array of wild flowers and grasses to rewild my front lawn. The fascinating diversity of plantlife that I discovered flourishing there inspired me to create these original coloured pencil drawings.” Learn more…
This inspiring little ‘Lockdown Lawn’ handmade Special Edition notebook is very special. Our unique cover design has a square window containing one of the Grasses/Wild Flowers designs protected by an acrylic cover which is held in place with solid copper or brass rivets. The whole case is covered with a striking ‘raspberry’ bookcloth.
Inside, we use complementary eye-catching handmade paisley design endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Lockdown Lawn’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout.
We also add a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon so you’ll never lose your place and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such a fabulous gift for creative writers who love the natural world and who doesn’t?
Art Cards and Postcards
4 ‘Lockdown Lawn’ designs available as individual Art Cards with envelopes.
3 Postcards available too.
“A broken mower and Lockdown allowed a delightful array of wild flowers and grasses to rewild my front lawn. The fascinating diversity of plantlife that I discovered flourishing there inspired me to create these original coloured pencil drawings.” Learn more…
Available as individual Art Cards, Postcards and a lovely set of all 4 - one of each design - presented in an attractive drawstring organza bag.
Our 150mm x 150mm and A5 Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm (white A5) brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve. Postcards are 150mm x 150mm and printed as the art cards above. Organza Bags are 195mm x 295mm in size.
“Squeaky Binders ‘Lockdown Lawn’ range is dedicated to ‘Monty’ the Golden Retriever, my constant companion, who spent his last Summer with me sharing our shadows on the Lockdown Lawn.” Lynn
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
6 Art Cards, 2 of each design, presented in a lovely folding wallet for storing and display.
“A broken mower and Lockdown allowed a delightful array of wild flowers and grasses to rewild my front lawn. The fascinating diversity of plantlife that I discovered flourishing there inspired me to create these original coloured pencil drawings.” Learn more…
This special Gift Set offers you 6 Art Cards, two of each of the three designs, presented in our beautiful New design folding wallet to keep them safe and to display proudly on any writing desk.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve.
“Squeaky Binders ‘Lockdown Lawn’ range is dedicated to ‘Monty’ the Golden Retriever, my constant companion, who spent his last Summer with me sharing our shadows on the Lockdown Lawn.” Lynn
Inspiration and technique
A broken mower and Lockdown allowed a delightful array of wild flowers and grasses to rewild my front lawn.
The fascinating diversity of plant life that I discovered flourishing there inspired me to create a series of original coloured pencil drawings.
Wild Hedgerow Bouquet
How lucky am I to be able to gather such a beautiful bouquet of wild grasses from my local hedgerows?
Strolling along the quiet country lanes on my daily dog walks, all these fascinating seed heads, moving gracefully in the breeze and shining against the light, caught my eye and I picked a bunch. At home, I created a small concertina book of coloured pencil drawings, featuring just a few favourites from my collection, the beginning of a new project I thought.
Then Covid 19 and the first Lockdown happened and the Grasses Project went on hold…
But at the same time my front lawn continued to grow, left uncut due to the mower breaking down, and the amazing diversity of grasses and wild flowers lying latent there started to emerge.
The lawn became our refuge, that is for Monty and I. Sometimes we’d sit and think, sometimes we’d just sit together. I did start to notice new leaves appearing and tiny flowers amidst the clouds of oxeye daisies that come up every year.
The sun shone and we cast our shared shadows on the lawn.
Grasses
As the lawn grew, seed heads formed and I collected each one - to my amazement 13 distinct varieties! Time to draw my collection, on a flat sheet of paper this time, observing and recording all the colours, shapes and structures I found there.
My Grasses Project was evolving.
I always suspected the oxeye daisies had plans to colonise the whole garden!
The mower, up till then, had thwarted their spread but its demise soon allowed their true intentions to became clear and the rest of the wild flower world soon joined this welcome ‘invasion’.
As the weeks and months passed by I began collecting and drawing each delicate bloom, oftentimes familiar to me but occasionally, less so. The search to identify my discoveries proved to be a real treasure trove of evocative common names ;-
Bird’s Foot Trefoil, Fox and Cubs, Sheep’s Sorrel, Selfheal, Lady’s Bedstraw and Common Mouse Ear!! to name just a few.
We made it through Lockdown together thanks in no small way to the comfort we found in the nature rewilding itself just outside the front door. We had to say our goodbyes in July, lying peacefully amongst the daisies and clover leaves…
Lockdown Lawn
Dedicated to Monty the Golden Retriever, my constant companion, who spent his last Summer with me
sharing our shadows on the Lockdown Lawn.