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The covers of this book are made with paper I handpainted and waxed with beeswax. This gives them a leathery texture and some degree of water resistance.

The interior covers and spine reinforcements are made with recycled kraft-brown shop paper. This paper has a subtle tan-on-tan stripe.


- 5.5" x 3.25" (14 cm x 8 cm)
- 160 pages.
- Bound with oatmeal-colored waxed Irish linen thread.


[ Available at kateblack.etsy.com. ]

 Hello,  I just love this community!  Watching everyone post pictures of such beautiful and exciting books inspired me to start binding again.  I took a bookmaking /artists book class in college and made many wonderful books.  Unfortunately that was about 4 years ago and I haven't made a hardcover book since.  I have been recently commissioned to bind 5 limited edition hardcover books of a collection of poetry for the small press Editions Louis Wain.  I remember all of the details except sewing the signatures to each other to create a text block.  Can anyone direct me to a tutorial?  Or describe how to do it?  I have done it before, and have some vague ideas of how it works, so perhaps a refresher would suffice.   Please help!

Thank you in advance and I promise to post pictures once the books are finished and you might be able to convince me to send you a handmade bookmark or postcard.  Provided you give me your mailing address. 

(They will have silkscreened text on the covers, pretty endpapers, a ribbon bookmark and of course interesting and amusing poetry :)  I am so excited! 

Beau is a cute dog. He's just 1 1/2 and he's bigger than my 2 1/2 year old Bodhi. Made me realize how small Bodhi is for a great dane. Bodhi is only about 115 lbs but he should probably be about 130. He just doesnt gain weight. I even started free feeding him. We've had him checked out but didnt opt for blood tests at that time. Bodhi seems otherwise healthy so I wonder if I should be concerned about his weight?

Beau is a scared doggie. When I brought him home to the backyard he jumped the back fence. Jed had to run after him as I got in the car in case he went really far. Poor dog didnt know what was going on. Luckily he and Bodhi seem to be best friends already and Missy couldnt care less about Beau.

Hopefully Beau warms up quickly. He's panting a lot still.

pictures to come!

(EDIT: when we got Bodhi we thought we were going to be raising a giant great dane. Jed researched the breeder, Bodhi's dad and mom are both huge. We fed him supplements and enzymes and eagle pack because we were told that would promote steady even growth and lots of it. we waited till he was a year to alter him...thought all that would help him get big...but he's still sooo skinny)

I saw it on exceptindreams ' journal.

"About Friends”
Brian Jones

The good thing about friends
is not having to finish sentences.

I sat a whole summer afternoon with my friend once
on a river bank, bashing heels on the baked mud
and watching the small chunks slide into the water
and listening to them - plop plop plop.
He said, 'I like the twigs when they...you know...
like that.' I said, 'There's that branch...'
We both said, 'Mmmm'. The river flowed and flowed
and there were lots of butterflies, that afternoon.

I first thought there was a sad thing about friends
when we met twenty years later.
We both talked hundreds of sentences,
taking care to finish all we said,
and explain it all very carefully,
as if we'd been discovered in places
we should not be, and were somehow ashamed.

I understood then what the river meant by flowing.

Aww, a hen hatched out a chick and then didn't want it so we have it in the house. It's so cute, I'll try and post a pic tomorrow. It has a little container for a home, but it won't stop cheeping unless I'm holding it :( I think it thinks I'm it's Mom and my hand is a wing :( Poor baby.

   

    Don't know what happened last time when the photos didn't go through. And this time the picture to the left insists on lying down rather than sitting up straight (must be a teenager).

Hey guys,

I am entering in a craft fair in November and my goal is to create 25 books for old vintage covers, so far I have four text blocks sewn and everything, only problem is I am looking to make myself a simple wooden book press that I can use as well.

I saw a link to one in comments a while back, but I have gone back like 180 entries and I can't find it anymore. Can anyone point me to somewhere that I can find some sort of schematic/blueprint so I can make this for myself? thanks.

This is a little number I made last month. Wooden covers with a strip of mahagony down the front and back covers; yellow, lined paper (a bear to print out), and coptic binding. Six signatures of six folios each for a 144-page journal. It is a B5 size journal. (about 21 inches by 18 inches).

Fun to make and even more fun to spend a lot of time sanding by hand. The mahagony strip is slightly rounded to fit the fingers and or palm of the hand. Ah, yes, the thread is green linen waxed.

tedorigawabookmakers.podbean.com

Yesterday, my husband had his six week checkup, post-surgery. Everything looks really good, they told him, so good that....he can start beginning to ride a bike again. To which I said: WHAT? I mean, I'm all for him getting back to normal, but if it was up to me, he'd at least wait, I don't know, another few months. If not forever. So many people have said to me (edit: so many of my girlfriends) "You need to tell him no more bike riding! It's over!" But what they don't realize is that isn't even an option. It would be like him telling me I can't read anymore, or watch TV, or waste time on Twitter, all things that I love. Admittedly, these are less dangerous pursuits. You are unlikely to break a sternum while watching Tori And Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. Still, it could happen. Life is dangerous. This is something I never wanted to admit, even before I had up close and personal proof. So I will grit my teeth, and hope he waits a little while, and try NOT to think of all we've been through this summer with the surgery the first time he pedals off. Because this is a marriage, not a dictatorship. Although sometimes, like now, I see why a dictatorship might be kind of nice.

In other news, I'm taking a vacation. A REAL one, which means(gulp!) no blogging or Facebook or Twitter until August. I know! But it is LONG overdue. We haven't been out of town for over a year and there is family to see, and plane rides to take. I wish I was going to a place like Sara Zarr's blog, complete with cucumber slices on my eyes and spa treatments, but you can't have everything. Hopefully by the time I return I'll have LOTS of stories to tell, none of them involving broken bones or hospitals. We have had just about enough of that, and there is still, thankfully some summer left. I'm ready to take it.

I hope you all have a GREAT rest of July. See you next month!

(Im a volunteer for the Rocky Mountain Great Dane Rescue)

"Beau"
1 1/2 years old
white with merle markings
male
not neutered
shelter gave some vax
deaf
very puppy
house trained
crate trained
good with dogs
good with kids
cats unknown
a sweet heart according to everyone who meets him

This guy was picked up as a stray in Omaha.

( Read more... )

I have to make this short and sweet because I'm at work, but..

Goddamn you, Jeremy Shockey.

I was having this phase last night where I was thinking about how much I wanted a bunch of trades - specifically, it was with the DBacks - for both sports and fandom reasons, but this I really, really didn't want.

And this journal is quickly becoming an outlet for trade angst. That is kind've not right. Maybe I should make one giant anti-trade post. Starting with this one.

..Okay, no more trade comments. Byrnes gets sent off? I'll put it here. Oakland unloads Huston? I'll put it here. It'll save everyone the space, I think.

Shockey is still an asshole, though.

Joe Blanton
Rich Harden

thelifelist
A forum for exchanging lists of things you'd like to have done before you die.

ljsecret
Share a secret through the means of art, under complete anonymity.

mourning_souls
A community for cemetery photographers, dark poets and anyone else who appreciates and admires the beauty of cemeteries.

New story. Kind of creepy.

Here's big news for your Monday: Brenda is OFFICIALLY returning to 90210. For those of you keeping track at home, that Jennie Garth, Shannen and Tori all signed on to appear. Which, for old school fans like me, is very exciting. But you have to wonder if maybe all this sort-of stunt casting will take away from the new show itself? I mean, aren't we supposed to be bonding with new characters, and not just waiting around for old ones to show up? I have utter faith in Rob Thomas---as I was addicted to Veronica Mars---so I'm sure he knows what he's doing. I guess I just want the show to be good on its own, not just because of all these familiar faces. We'll find out in the fall, I suppose.

I would love to say that I spent my weekend doing worthwhile and scholarly things. Mostly, though, I searched for people from my past on Facebook. My babysitter calls this "stalking people on Facebook," but I prefer to look at it, like the 90210 thing, as nostalgia. I found two very old friends I'd completely lost touch with....as well as a handful of people I don't want to be in touch with AT ALL but was still mildly curious about. Anyway. It's a total time waster. Next weekend, I'm cleaning out my closet and tackling my junk drawer. No, really!

I also spent some of the weekend catching up with Kathy Griffin and My Life On The D-List, which was just nominated for another Emmy this past Friday. Basic truth: Kathy Griffin fascinates me. People either love or hate her (and when they hate her, they REALLY hate her) but I think she's hilarious. I love her self-deprecation, and how much she loves her dogs, and her strange relationship with Steve Wozniack (which I think is now over, but still, fun to watch while it was still going). She always seems to be in situations where people have no idea who she is, but if I met her, I'd be TOTALLY star struck. I'm not yet stalking her on Facebook. But it's still early.

Finally, on a last TV note, I'm in serious Scrubs withdrawal. So much so that I spent some of my non-Facebook time this weekend trying to find out when Season Seven is going to be released on DVD. Only up to six is available. Any Scrubs devotees out there: is this coming season the seventh, or was last season but they just haven't released it? Any info would be much appreciated. Maybe I should ask my Facebook friends, too?

Okay, no. I'm going to clean out my closet. Seriously. Just as soon as I update my status....

Have a great day everyone!