Another hump day…that’s what I call Wednesdays since I learned the term in grade school. Sigh sigh…middle of the week, doesn’t feel like a fresh start, but doesn’t feel like you are close enough to the weekend either. I had a bunch of projects lined up to be worked on today, but I just didn’t feel like digging into them. You can call it laziness or perhaps ADD, because I started making a little book instead. The inspiration came from watching the latest video of crafting by Marion on ustream. She made the cutest little book, so I was inspired to make one with stuff I had lying around. A beautiful piece of black leather, scraps of thick white drawing paper and old jewelry supplies…
Looks pretty cute, huh? I just folded up the scraps of paper I had, cut the leather to size and used eyelets to attach the side piece of leather for closure. The round bead is glass from Murano attached to a black leather cord…sort of the traditional system of wrapping around the booklet many times and slipping the bead in place to keep the whole thing closed. A cute little 8x8cm book, perfect to keep in the car for notes or in your purse perhaps? I’m quite happy with the results and how neat it looks. I suppose all miniature items just look cool! So what’s the problem with all this? Well, I haven’t actually attached the pages to the leather yet. I’m not sure if glue is strong enough, but sewing would be too close for all those pages as I want them single, not in bunches. I fooled ya, didn’t I? It’s totally unfinished…
I was chuckling a bit to myself about the unfinished book and how I could still take the photo that looked final. I found out that some projects you see published in crafty books are sometimes unfinished as well, so that’s why I was chuckling. Or at least sometimes they don’t finish projects completely because they only need the parts essential for photography. Pretty tricky, huh? Well, if anyone knows of a good method to attach the paper to the leather that would be nice. I want something sturdy that enables me to keep the pages single sheets folded, rather than bunched together as signatures. Now I’m going to scour the web and see if I can find a good tutorial or combine techniques that would work for this project…
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hi!!! thank you for visiting my blog and for your nice comment!
your creations are fantastic along with your free goodies!!! i would love to learn how i could make this beautiful little book!
Thanks for stopping by and you are very welcome, glad you found some of my posts useful and inspiring! I guess I will have to do a little tutorial as I make variations of these little books. Not sure what method would be the best yet!
This is a wonderful little book. If you find out how to bind it like that let me know! Good job—love it!!! Thanks for visiting today!
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Thanks! I think I’m going to try different methods and see what works best for binding…
ha! you fooled me linda:) I thought it was done, I must admit I have done the same thing, inface every time a photograph one of my cupcake wrappers I use a “Fake cake” made from a styrophome ball I “frosted” with caulking LOL!
Hi Lindsay! Oh that is not bad at all…I mean, you can’t have real cupcakes around for photographing all the time…although it would be a good excuse to eat them…haha!
This little book does look finish! hehe It does look really cute! Thanks so much for sharing all the links. Have a lovely merry happy day and love to yoU!
p/s: i am so looking forward to weekend!
Yes, I’m totally looking forward to the weekend and doing nothing…haha!
HEY! you totally fooled me! i would have thunk it was finished
i LOVE this little book. i tried to think of ways to make it work for what you’re trying to do but i’d probably be leading you into disaster! i just recently started to read the “how to make books” book 
i’ve got the itch too! i love what you’ve got going so far with your chunky goodness!
happy hump day!
how do you say lemon cake in italian?! Mmmmm!
Yeah, I totally want to buy some real bookbinding books…but I realize I’m wanting something weird in binding single pages. Usually that only works if your pages are uber uber thick, otherwise regular sewing will rip through the pages – this is what my bookbinding friend tells me. I will try some various methods and see what happens! Oh, lemon cake? I think torta di limone? torta gialla – the name of this blog literally means yellow cake…haha!
I sure hope you figure out how to finish that little book!
It is awesome!!!!
Of course that bead really attracts my attention………..
Thanks for the encouragement…will do some experimenting. Oh and that bead is something I’ve saved forever…but I’ve got to bust my stash!
What a cool little book! Now I want to try making one too.
Have a great weekend!
You totally can – try it! Thanks for stopping by and have a great week too
Love your little book – I’d love to see more in more colours in your Etsy store! To bind them look at Japanese bookbinding – there’s a book I have on the subject with gret stitching techniques. Alex x
Thanks Alexandra! Actually, I wasn’t even thinking of selling these, but I do have a lot of leather so it’s definitely an option. I’ll definitely have to check out some books to see what’s possible…
yes please- a tutural would be fantastic! These books are great.
Awee…glad you like them and I will try to show my process, but I’ve not a very good teacher! I can be such a slob, which seems so opposite of a teacher!
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