The Maker’s Chaos Book

You keep photographs of what you make. This is for everything the photograph doesn't show.

The ideas that arrive at completely inconvenient times.

The things you tried that nobody asked you to try.

The piece you nearly launched across the room.

The customer comment you want to remember forever.

The strange request that required a short walk before replying.

The thing you were certain would sell.

The thing you nearly didn't make that everybody suddenly wanted.

And all those little moments you were absolutely convinced you'd remember.

The Maker's Chaos Book is a creative journal, idea book and maker time capsule created especially for crafters, artists and people who make things.

It's somewhere to capture creative ideas before they disappear, record experiments and projects, keep the memories behind what you make and build a record of your creative life as it changes.

Not another productivity system.

Not another planner telling you what you should be doing.

And definitely no expectation that you fill it in perfectly.

Start anywhere. Skip pages. Scribble. Stick things in. Come back months later. Make it yours.

What's inside The Maker's Chaos Book?

The Chaos Book gives all those little parts of being a maker somewhere to live.

Use it to:

• Capture creative ideas before they disappear
• Remember projects you want to try
• Park expensive ideas before one convincing video results in another piece of equipment arriving at your house
• Record experiments that worked and ones that absolutely didn't
• Notice how your skills and making have changed
• Save customer comments and memorable requests
• Remember the people who supported your work
• Record unexpected bestsellers and products that didn't quite go to plan
• Capture memorable orders and market-day aftermaths
• Keep your creative firsts, tiny wins and milestones
• Look back at lessons you've learned along the way

If you sell what you make, there's room for the business memories worth keeping too.

If you don't, that's absolutely fine. You don't need to run a handmade business to use The Maker's Chaos Book.

And then there's the maker time capsule…

Keep photographs, old product tags, packaging, business cards, swatches, stickers, notes and other little flat pieces of your making life.

Record what you're making now, what people know you for and what you're hoping might change.

Compare your early work with what you're making today.

Write something to the maker you'll be in the future.

Because one day, this won't just be a book you've filled in.

It'll be a record of the maker you were becoming.

Who is The Maker's Chaos Book for?

This creative journal might be for you if:

• Your ideas currently live in screenshots, scraps of paper and your head.
• You've bought materials for a project you can no longer remember.
• You've said “I'll remember that” and absolutely did not.
• You want somewhere for the fun bits of making, not just the admin.
• You've been making for years but rarely stop to notice how much better you've become.
• You sell your work and want to remember the stories behind the business, not only the numbers.
• You make purely because you love it.
• You'd love to open something years from now and rediscover things you'd completely forgotten.

Whether you're a crafter, artist, handmade business owner or someone who simply loves making things, the Chaos Book starts wherever you are.

Choose your format

PRINT AT HOME EDITION

Want to start filling your Chaos Book immediately?

Download the printable PDF and print it at home, through a local printer or using your preferred printing service.

Perfect if you like working with pen and paper, want the freedom to print the pages that appeal to you most or fancy building your own gloriously chaotic binder over time.

Write on it. Draw on it. Stick things to it. There is absolutely no requirement for it to remain pristine.

Digital PDF download. No physical product will be posted.

INTERACTIVE DIGITAL EDITION

Prefer keeping your creative chaos digitally?

Keep your Chaos Book on a compatible tablet or device so your ideas, memories, experiments and maker moments can live somewhere other than your head.

Ideal for makers who already sketch, plan, write or work digitally and want their creative record with them wherever they make.

Digital product. No physical product will be posted.

PHYSICAL BOOK EDITION

Coming soon.

Can I use The Maker's Chaos Book if I don't sell my work?

Absolutely.

The Chaos Book is for people who make things, whether that's your hobby, your business or something somewhere in between.

If you don't sell what you make, simply skip any business-related pages and use the parts that matter to you.

Is The Maker's Chaos Book suitable for makers outside the UK?

Yes. The Maker's Chaos Book is a Global Edition designed for makers everywhere.

There's no requirement to use a particular currency, selling platform or business system.

Whether you've just discovered a craft, have been making for years or somehow woke up one morning to discover your hobby had become an actual business, start wherever you are.

Does The Maker's Chaos Book make a good gift for a crafter or maker?

Yes. It's designed to be both useful now and something worth looking back through years later.

It could make a thoughtful gift for:

• Someone starting a new craft
• The person who always has another project on the go
• The maker whose supplies are slowly taking over the house
• Someone starting their first creative business
• An established maker who deserves somewhere to keep the story behind their work

There's even a page inside specifically for the person giving the book to write who it's from and why they thought of them.

Because eventually, all that chaos becomes a body of work.