I make things slowly, by hand, so you can use them forever.

Tell me what you love and I'll make it into something you'll carry every day, and never want to replace.

Handmade on Sydney's Northern Beaches

Design Your Journal

These are made to order. Which means we start with what you love, and go from there. I promise it'll be good!

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Journal Charms

Personal and engraved to order. These are to adorn your journal with.

Pottery

Designed in mini collections. This one is for the artists.

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Collections

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Certified and traceable quality

I source my leather exclusively from tanneries belonging to the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, the Tuscany-based organisation that sets and upholds the gold standard for vegetable-tanned leather. It's a material that improves with age, absorbing the traces of daily life and developing a character entirely its own.

Leather

I make refillable-style leather journal covers, also known as traveller's notebooks, for you to flexibly own your journal ecosystem. They are entirely customisable. And even when I work with similar colours or combinations, something always shifts in the making. A small decision here, a natural variation in the hide there. No two pieces ever come out the same, and I think that's what makes them worth keeping.

Clay

My pottery is a mix of handbuilt and wheel-thrown earthenware, designed in mini collections for your home and your art. Every piece has the kind of minor imperfections that remind you a real person made it. That's not a flaw. That's the whole point.

Journal Charms

I love books and I love art. These are personalised journal charms inspired by those interests. They are engraved, permanently. This collection will grow over time. For now, it is these.

A library card charm, inspired by the one I saw years ago in the NYPL gift shop and so this is for the book that lives rent-free in your head.

A gallery placard, like the labels next to artwork, but for your journal.

A catalogue card, like the ones inside library drawers, to catalogue your thoughts.

#JournalTok

I love to see your unboxings, setups, decorations and especially how your piece patinates - genuinely froth over that stuff. Tag me @terraandsim on Tiktok or Instagram.