Gil Me Up

I recently started bookbinding and decided to be ambitious for my first full project. I thought it would be a great idea to make a leather-bound journal, and here are the results:







I bought a huge piece of tanned but otherwise fresh, thick leather and cut out the size I needed, then dyed it to give it that sort of wood grain look. Here's a comparison between the undyed leather (basically a skin tone) and the journal:



Then where the spine was going to be I punched holes for the stitching and sewed the folded sheets of 80-lb. drawing paper to the spine and voilà, a journal. Some things are a bit uneven, but I think it's ok for a first try, and considering it's all handmade. In any case, it was a lot of fun, it feels great in my hand, and it still has that fresh leather smell mmmmmm...

o.o I'm kinda doing some random stuff during this downtime, and I figured other people were as well, but I would have never guessed book making XD
Nuu basically made a new computer, to replace her 7 year old machine ;;
Then we got a wide lens for a camera, which costs just as much as a new computer >_<

That's cool thing and such. Bookbinding to be a hobby?


I saw rainbow today.... it didn't rain one bit at all today either, and the Rainbow was up in the sky, like a halo.

Dude!! That was Fuzzy's Hand!! I never seen this thread!! kudo's on the book binding! and here I thought counting beer cans watching the time til we could play again was good idea.. I could of made a quilt, wrote a book in one fuzzy made... planted a tree... though fuzzy would of killed it for his book... I did eat a cheeseburger, so I guess I see where the leather came from.. You can make me one for my FFXIV:ARR Notes!!