This is my first book commission! My Dad wanted a book made of “An Historical Account of the Expedition Against Sandusky under Col. William Crawford in 1782” (and yes, that is a very long title!) so I gladly made it for him.
I was very busy last year, so much that I didn’t have the time to post as much! There was a lot of bookbinding, and here are some of the books that I worked on.
My mother is a big fan of Jane Austen so I made and bound a copy of Pride and Prejudice to go with the copy of Sense and Sensibility that I made a couple of years ago!
This year I want to work more on bookbinding, so I started off the year (and the end of last year) with finishing up my Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass book!
Despite the holidays I managed to make a new flip calendar for 2022!
This summer I was so lucky to attend a class at the American Academy of Bookbinding. It was so great and it motivated me to make up a bunch of my book parts that have been hanging around for way to long.
There is a certain murder mystery game that I enjoy playing with my niece and for her birthday this year I thought I would design a card with a mystery game theme. Well, this project got way out of hand and I ended up making a mini version of the game!
I am a calendar person. I always get at least one or two every year. Last year I picked up this cute little flip calendar that I loved having on my desk and I was going to look for a new one when I thought: Make your own! I was able to repurpose parts of the old calendar, make some new pages, and here it is!
(Originally posted on June 6, 2018)
This book was the result of a trade. My friend made me a finishing press and I made him a book! He is really into D&D so I tried to theme it to his character, but a ranger isn’t as much fun as an elf or an ogre (I told him even a gnome gave me more to work with!) But I made do. I was able to use some stuff left over from the Harry Potter books, like the decal I used on the spine.
I have a bunch of projects in the works but nothing’s finished! Here are some of the things I’m working on:
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