So there I was at LAX with an 8-hour layover... in the middle of the night. I'm not great at sleeping in airports, I'd finished reading my book and the bookstores were closed, and I had a book to make for today's project.
I am so terribly clever that I actually planned ahead for this (unusual for me, I must admit). As I was packing my suitcases in San Miguel, I tossed some scraps from previous books into my carry-on. Then I added a couple of needles and linen thread, a glue stick and a tiny pair of scissors that would make it through the security check. This little "scrap" book is the result.
I think I've done pretty well by that red-checked plastic envelope I bought in San Miguel. This is the third (or maybe the fourth) book I've made from that one envelope! It's a tiny little blank book journal with four signatures folded from heavy vellum tracing paper scrap. They are stitched to the plastic cover with white waxed linen thread. Then I took another length of the linen thread and chained it to form a wrap-around tie closure.
I might have gotten some odd looks in the airport sitting there playing with tiny scraps of paper, but there was basically no one to see me. It was 3 am and even Los Angeles airport is all but deserted at that hour. By the way, that black/silver speckled granite background in the photos is the floor of LAX terminal #3.
Onward to Arizona...
I am so terribly clever that I actually planned ahead for this (unusual for me, I must admit). As I was packing my suitcases in San Miguel, I tossed some scraps from previous books into my carry-on. Then I added a couple of needles and linen thread, a glue stick and a tiny pair of scissors that would make it through the security check. This little "scrap" book is the result.
I think I've done pretty well by that red-checked plastic envelope I bought in San Miguel. This is the third (or maybe the fourth) book I've made from that one envelope! It's a tiny little blank book journal with four signatures folded from heavy vellum tracing paper scrap. They are stitched to the plastic cover with white waxed linen thread. Then I took another length of the linen thread and chained it to form a wrap-around tie closure.
I might have gotten some odd looks in the airport sitting there playing with tiny scraps of paper, but there was basically no one to see me. It was 3 am and even Los Angeles airport is all but deserted at that hour. By the way, that black/silver speckled granite background in the photos is the floor of LAX terminal #3.
Onward to Arizona...
CUTE!
ReplyDeletebut I have to admit I'm mainly interested in what kind of "small scissors" you have that would make it through the check!?!!??? "
They are very small embroidery scissors, the kind shaped like a bird--a crane of something. A couple years back the TSA changed the rule for the acceptable length of scissors. You can take scissors with blades less than 4" long in a carry-on.
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