Handmade books have crept into my heart lately so I made one for my mom's birthday gift.
The cover is hand marbled paper that I purchased. Someday I would love to try to make some myself. I think all I need a this point is two seconds to rub together. Interesting how difficult that is to find sometimes.
I hope she gets some use out of it. I did some calligraphy for her on the inside cover to personalize it and attached some Japanese index label stickers by Midori to the back inside cover using a couple pieces of washi tape. The sticker tabs can be use to divide up sections of the book for different topics.
When I was in Kinokuniya recently I picked up a book that of course is in Japanese so I cannot even read you the title. it is an adorable 'stick figure' -ish style that looks super Japanese. It's pretty cute. I'm not quite able to draw everything but some things are so simple that even a kid could replicate them. Picture of the book cover here.
On other fronts, we are starting to attend Christmas Tree lighting ceremonies, holiday school band concerts, and think about where our own decorations are hiding in storage.
And the other night I unfortunately watched the first disk of Game of Thrones. Oh my goodness, too intense for me...off to remove the rest of the disks from my queue, pronto! Who has a stomach to watch such things!? Wowza, not me. Do you guys watch this?
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