In 2012, I decided to write a blog for a year. It was New Year’s Eve and I felt heady with champagne and a sense of possibility; itching for a new adventure but keen also to observe, capture and immerse myself in the early years of motherhood that seemed already to be passing at warp […]
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Last year I took a wonderful book binding class at the International Printing Museum in Torrance. It was taught by Book Artist Lucia Frias Villarreal . She has a Masters degree in bookmaking, so I feel I learned from the best! She taught us Coptic binding which was developed in Egypt as early as the second century AD. Essentially it is a stitching method where you attach your pages "signatures" to your covers. I have collected several drink coasters from Chili's and thought they would make some great starter covers for my mini books. I had all of these wonderful Vintage images I collected to use for my Summer inspired projects, but didn't end up using all of them. So I printed out my favorites and started stitching away. Traditionally you would use a special waxed string. I ended up using bakers twine which I waxed myself using a tea light! I really loved how they came out. I used some vintage book pages from damaged books for my signatures. {coptic edges} {i love this vintage Barbie image} {inside the signatures you can see the bakers twine} {the pages are from old books, a toy collectors catalog and a family satire from the 70's} I am thinkin of offering this for a class at the Vintage. They are so fun to make, and a bit challenging! -Denise
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As Promised, here's the seven part tutorial 'A Book Folding Course'. I put this book folding tutorial together to help people new to book folding get to grips with the basics. Once you have this knowledge it's a very easy craft to get involved with. That's one of the great things about book folding. It's also cheap! You're likely to have all the tools you need to get started already and second hand books don't cost much, if anything, and are readily available. Throughout the course w
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Catchy titles for a book is a way for bookworms to grab a copy. But these kind of catchy might get readers to think twice about reading it, or be intrigued if it really means what it says in the title. Perhaps, the authors of these books have no pun intended while writing the titles
Cut and Fold Book folding is not as difficult as it looks. These easy cut and fold book folding instructions will get you on your way.
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Welcome to Part 1 of my D.I.Y. Wedding series! If you missed my anniversary post and intro to this series, click here. I remember when there was an art to making a mix tape, carefully timing the recordings around the babbling voice of the radio D.J. I remember when you couldn’t be on the Internet...
TIME magazine recently revealed its 30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs which includes the highly creative, user-generated Newspaper Blackout. This blog is the
