it's been a while lj. i haven't been ignoring you, just busy with everything that life has been throwing at me. which isn't bad, just a lot at the moment. firstly i ended my 15 years at Sysco. it's been a while since i've mentioned that name here, but i've changed a lot since the last time i made that mistake. anyway. laid off and transfer ( Read more... )

forty eight. this one started out because i wanted to do something with this map paper, but the image was so centered i never really knew how i wanted to lay it out. finally decided on off centering the image and getting as much of the land mass drawings in there as much as i could. i didn't even intend on using the blue cloth at first, but when i ( Read more... )

where are we at now. oh yes, number forty seven. this book started because grandma asked mom to make a book for my cousin. i'm assuming for the holidays. the only guideline was she likes red. so i made another red book with the unryu paper. this is actually a double sided hand made paper. one side red, the other black which gives it that dark red ( Read more... )

here we have number 46. this one i made for Sarah. it must have something to do with the holiday season, or the planets are aligned or maybe its just happy coincidence, but recently my books are so popular that everything i make is either a request, or a gift of some sort. i didn't get to make as many of the holloween books as i had hoped because i ( Read more... )

journal number 45. i made this one for the girl i've been seeing, Sara. she likes comics, comic-con and after seeing my book of sketches from previous years at comic-con she wanted to start one of her own. so i made her this from one of my civil war duplicates. i actually made a mistake on this one. on the last stitch point i pulled the thread too ( Read more... )

journal number 44. this one i'm keeping. i like it way too much to let go of it, so for all the books i've made only 2 are in my personal stash ( Read more... )

journal 43 is completed. i actually sold this one before it was even done to one of mom's friends. i like this book. it turned out nice for how simple it is. the emboss worked out really well, the colors came together really nicely. i made a small mistake on the stitching but nothing that anyone who didn't bind with a coptic stitch would catch. all ( Read more... )

journal number #42. i completed this one on 09-06-12, but again i haven't been overly focused on talking about it here. tonight i'm feeling somewhat unfocused and restless so i thought i might write here to help with that.


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i'd been putting posting about these two journals mostly because of distractions in my life lately. which, quite frankly i'm getter sick of. distractions of loneliness, then interest, then happiness and finally dissapointment. it seems hardly worth it and that i could be spending my time better on other things. like writing about my day / life and ( Read more... )

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