You know the old line about how to make God laugh? Make plans. That was my day. I woke up with a drippy, stinky cold and sore throat. Went out anyway and it turned into a day of missed cues, missed friends, foggy thinking and exhaustion. Bottom line? I didn't make it to the open-air market again. Came home and went to bed.
Which is all by way of explaining that my creativity is in the negative column today. Not a single original idea, inspiration, bit of whimsy. Nada. BUT... I came prepared for just such an eventuality. At the last minute, while packing for my trip, I threw in a few pre-cut pieces of leather, just for days like this. So today is another nice little handbound leather mini journal. The other day at the "Mega" I did find a bamboo bead placemat like I hadn't seen before. So now I have a bag full of bamboo beads in a few sizes. I used a longish 3-hole bead on the spine and a shorter 2-hole bead for the closure. I was hoping I could just slide the front wrap-around flap under the bead, but I couldn't get enough pressure to hold it shut, so I added a small strip of Velcro under the bead closure to hold it.
The hand-torn pages are a bright white medium weight paper with vertical ridges. There are 6 signatures with 14 pages each. The liner is a light tan paper.
A nice little book... and I didn't have to think to much about it. Now I'm going back to bed.
Which is all by way of explaining that my creativity is in the negative column today. Not a single original idea, inspiration, bit of whimsy. Nada. BUT... I came prepared for just such an eventuality. At the last minute, while packing for my trip, I threw in a few pre-cut pieces of leather, just for days like this. So today is another nice little handbound leather mini journal. The other day at the "Mega" I did find a bamboo bead placemat like I hadn't seen before. So now I have a bag full of bamboo beads in a few sizes. I used a longish 3-hole bead on the spine and a shorter 2-hole bead for the closure. I was hoping I could just slide the front wrap-around flap under the bead, but I couldn't get enough pressure to hold it shut, so I added a small strip of Velcro under the bead closure to hold it.
The hand-torn pages are a bright white medium weight paper with vertical ridges. There are 6 signatures with 14 pages each. The liner is a light tan paper.
A nice little book... and I didn't have to think to much about it. Now I'm going back to bed.
A beautiful book. Amazing you did it in your sleep. You must have a book brain...lol...
ReplyDeleteI hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteBringing leather to Mexico, sort of the old coals to New Castle routine. How wonderful that you planned ahead for this sort of emergency. I expect we will see more wonders from the bamboo beads now in your kit. Snuggle up with a nice cuppa and get some rest.
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