Maker
Savera
Hello, I’m Savera
Trinketz is a handmade journal brand and a place for slow making — the kind of creativity that does not hurry and does not apologise for taking its time.
Every journal here is made by hand, often from the things most people would overlook.
I am a mother of four, a corporate lawyer by training — I hold an LLM from King’s College London — and a maker by instinct. I left corporate law and eventually found my way back to making, a part of myself I had almost forgotten.
I grew up surrounded by the kind of beauty that most people walk past without noticing. The flower markets of Islamabad in the early morning. My grandfather’s papers. Scraps of fabric and lace kept because they were too beautiful to throw away.
Those things stayed with me.
My Vision
I work with reclaimed materials, vintage papers, tea-dyed pages, and the beautiful castoffs of everyday life.
My Mission
Long before junk journal was a phrase anyone searched for, I was already saving these things.
Folding them. Layering them. Turning them into something that felt more true than what they were before.
Trinketz began in 2008 as something small — a home-based business making bespoke favour boxes for weddings and birth announcements, the kind of handmade things that made people stop and ask who made this.
It grew slowly from there.
Over time, the materials I loved most began finding their way into books — old papers, lace, textiles, envelopes and fragments that had already lived one life before reaching my worktable.
Eventually the journals became the work.
I have served on The Graphics Fairy Design Team, which means I have spent a great deal of my time in the company of vintage images, aged papers and makers who understand that beauty often lives in the worn and the kept.
Four children later, still with chai brewing on the stove and a craft room I am never quite finished with, I would not change a single thing.
Why I Make Journals
For me, making has always begun with something closer to listening.
You sit with the materials. You find out what they want to become. You do not rush the tea-dyeing — you wait for the colour to deepen. You move a piece of lace three times before it finally belongs.
This is what junk journaling taught me: that patience is not separate from creativity.
That a journal made slowly, with attention and love, can become worth infinitely more than the things from which it began.
Every discarded thing carries the ghost of something beautiful. My work is finding it.
From My Worktable to Yours
If you have found your way here, I suspect you already know what it is to save something because it is too beautiful to throw away.
Come explore the journals, learn the craft, or simply stay awhile.
There is a place for you here.
— Savera