As a quilter or a knitter do you find that time passes too quickly?
I constantly feel like I could use that 8th day of the week, or that 25th hour where nobody bothers me and I can do some creating.
Because it feels like time flies and also because I am having so much fun these days, I decided to start a One Line A Day Journal.
My rule is that I try to capture whatever happened that day that was good. I don't write about the bad, annoying or sad things for the most part. I often write about the boys because they have so many good things going on right now. Much more so than the adults. I do record when I finish a creative project though.
I started this last February. It has a page dedicated to each day of the year. In another month or so I'll have the treat of reading what happened to me last year on the same day of the year. I'm looking forward to that.
Perhaps I will bore my DH to tears. Perhaps he will fall asleep faster? Perhaps he should be thankful that I only have one historic year of information at this point!
For less than $15, it's been a lot of fun for me.
I have even taken it on trips with me. Once I was sick and asked my DH to write in it for me.
Is it too much if I make a beautiful taupe quilted cover for it? Maybe with a little applique of our house on it?
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?
In my last post about bookbinding, I did some calligraphy on the outside cover.
I took another stab at it, pun intended, and sewed up another coptic style book based on what I learned in Jody Alexander's bookbinding class on Creativebug.
This time instead of using plain paper from the art store, I used paper from PaperSource. I like this better than the first try and would like to make some more of these.
I'm using this book to make my to-do lists for all sorts of things. It makes me feel better to make lists of things when it gets really busy and it seems like there is not enough time in the day to get it all done. I found a poem about list making by Shel Silverstein that was pretty funny. I couldn't help but decorate it a little bit, so below is what the inside cover looks like. I call it the Listmaker's List of Lists. What a mouthful.
The gradient paper was made on my own personal printer from a file freely available for download at Mr. Printables. Sweet colors.
