I often get up in the middle of the night to play Spelling Bee--but that soon leads me to a video on the Handmade Book Club that keeps me awake until.....whenever!
I have enough art supplies to last me forever and beyond--which is why I feel so prosperous this morning.
Nellie sent me a video of books made of indigo and said she had some and would share. This started me on a whole new road of this bookbinding journey, inspiring me to make a series of books I'm calling Blue Jean books.
All of them will be covered in various iterations of shibori fabric, denim, and indigo. The fabrics will be attached to book board with double-sided interfacing.
Signature wrappers that will show through on the spines will be papers of the same blues, then sewn with red or blue or white thread.
I have finally figured out how to make lined pages! I'm buying stapled-spined notebooks and tearing off the cover and removing the staples, then using the paper to build signatures. (A signature is a bundle of pages--books might have four or ten or however many pages you want)
Beads and buttons, adhesives of all kinds, buttons and cords and waxed linen thread, and an unlimited supply of paper for pages--I've been collecting these things forever, and now have so many ways to incorporate them into books. This is richness!
Besides all the good things we often take for granted--food and shelter and friends--what makes you feel most rich?
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