I am not in the middle of this mess, in hiding. I am in the midst of putting all of this stuff away....Again...You would think that I would learn to clean up as I go, after a while...
Nope.
I pretty much have it down to what you see there...Not counting the jewelry findings that need sorting.
So I decided I needed a break. I saw a small pad of graph paper on my desk...
Off on another tangent.
Bookbinding. At least it is a style that I haven't tried before.
I just used fancy card stock and sticky gold paper to do the binding. That part is cheating.
What I really wanted to try was sewing the paper together like a real book.
I did it. It's not perfect, but not too bad for a first try.
I made five stacks of pages. and sewed them together down the center.
I will not go into details. I am not fit to teach this. Not yet anyway.
You could do this in mini and some people do....I won't be doing it. I admire the patience of the people that do.
The whole thing took me less than an hour....Now that I know that I can do it, I am happy. I can continue cleaning the Black hole that is my workroom.
Back to real work.
See you tomorrow.
6 comments:
You book is so pretty and made so quickly!
Thanks for being willing to share your black hole with us.
Your fellow black holer
I love your book and my goodness you have a lot of stuff how do you keep it all straight?
Marisa, I don't. All of the stuff wanders around and settles here and there on its own. I have very unruly stuff! LOL
I love bookbinding and used to do it for a while but ended up with a lot of blank books. I've started using them now so I might go back to making some more. I do enjoy the creativity of book making.
Woman of many talents!!!
the book is really nice!!
Fun cleaning... I'm just like you. I say I'll keep up n put things away, but never do. I must be forced. Yet i can go to someone else's house n clean down to the tiniest detail no problem..go figure.
I love the book. I especially like the tab to open close it. Funny i just made a mini book to test out exactly what u wanted about a month ago. 1" tall x 1 1/2" wide x 1/2" thick. Used small graph paper also. (5 across 6 down) the inside i have about 6/7 lil booklets i sewed separately with clear jewelry string that has a tiny bit of stretch. Then sewed them all together in the ends. That was the hardest getting it all together. N cardboard cover with paper in n out. I wanna go smaller but mine was to see if i could n pretty proud. I think you should at least try a scale one. Since everything you do comes out amazing! I'm def gonna try to do a tiny one with your flap. Maybe really thin leather. :)
Go for it!
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