i read my facebook inbox and duc sent me a message “i like your bookbinding post” and i thought … well, perhaps he is a mindreader of some sort because i just made some “bookinding thoughts” today and didnt get much chance to write it down on the net (thanks to my husband reading the Manny Pacquiao blog) i was stuck with my index cards and colored pencils daydreaming about making and selling more handmade journals and notepads for christmas and the last quarter of the year. so here are my thoughts which i hope duc will like…
* kraft paper+corrugated board wire-o bound journals :: these will come in different sizes. It may come as plain / bare / naked journals, but i can utilize my truckloads of ephemera to make unique covers….
* i still have lots of leather to make into these journals, i hope to make small ones. complete with leather cord as enclosure. instead of using white paper, i plan to use these brown kraft papers or thick sketch papers… some of these will be stitched on the side and some are not.
* i am inspired to recylce… covers and inside sheets. but perhaps not all at once. i have some really nice leather bags. (coach, RL,liz claiborne) that is too expensive to throw but will surely be frowned upon when used as a bag. so i plan to make covers out of them. when using recycled inside sheets, i can use “fresh” leather as cover…ill just see where this goes…
timetable? now thats critical. ill test out this plan in a week o two. all depending on the availability of extra funds.. and extra time.
