*and the crowd goes WILD*
I know how annoying it is when you keep going to a blog hoping for something interesting and new to appear, and it's the same old weeks-old post sitting there decomposing. So I finally bestirred myself to find and install a "Follow by email" widget on this blog. It's over in the right-hand column. If you put your email address there, whenever I get around to making a new post, it'll show up in your email. That way you avoid the irritation of seeing the same moldy old post alla time time time.
ETA: When you enter your email address, the program will send you an email to confirm that you really want to subscribe to emails from this blog. You can decline or accept; if later you want to unsubscribe, there will be an Unsubscribe option at the bottom of each of the emails. As far as I know, I don't get a list of who has subscribed, but even if I do, I won't use your email for anything at all. The subscription provider handles all the addresses and only uses them for this one task.
Yes, this is what passes for thrills around here. I like it because I dislike drama. Had enough of that, ready for peace. Oh, okay, here's something new: I made another personal journal last week. I covered this one with denim from an old pair of jeans. It's even less perfect than the first one I made, because like an idiot I thought I knew all the steps so I didn't bother to go over onto SeaLemon's YouTube channel and review them. Oops. It'll serve, but I've put a memo in the back of the new journal to go consult SeaLemon before tackling the next one!
Mistakes: used too few pages; the front and back boards are too wide for the text block; the bookmark ribbon could be 1/2" longer...
general lack of precision and accuracy in cutting the boards and pasting the text block in. Pluses: well, it serves, doesn't it? It's comfortable in my hands and
I had fun using old maps for the endpapers and
I found some photos from catalogues of some space
flights and auroras to doll the pages up a little.
Here are the videos I referred to:
How to make a text block
How to make a hardcover book
SeaLemon includes in-video links to skills used in each video that you may not have run across, such as creating your own book cloth for binding.
And here's a page that has all the basic bookbinding video links in a list.
I really like her bookbinding videos and I've bookmarked them because I'll be making various kinds of notebooks and pads in the future.
2 comments:
I think using old maps is a great idea. I have many of them around and now with the GPS in the car, I rarely use them. I have also old denims, but was going to make pillows of them with that Japanese quilting technique called sashiko.
I covered one wall of really ugly wallpaper with maps. I wasn't sure I'd want to keep it so I just used glue-gun dots and velcro dots to stick them up there. It is so much better than the crappy old wallpaper that it's going to stay. The minimalist-adhesive approach seems to be working so I will leave it at that. I have something of a crazy passion for maps of all kinds.
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