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Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Episode 85: A is for Love, Y is for Dream
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
I made an alphabet accordion book. I didn't want to make an A is for Apple type book so I mixed languages. Specifically, I mixed Japanese and the English alphabet. The result is this A is for Love, Y is for Dream alphabet book. Why A is for Love? Because in Japanese love is pronounced ai - 愛. Dream is pronounced yume - 夢. I went through the alphabet and tried to choose good Japanese words for the kanji. Some letters, however, don't really appear in Japanese: L, Q. And P. There are some words that begin with P in Japanese but way too many are words borrowed from other languages: Present (puresento) and pizza (piza). So I went with an English word: Passion and translated it into Japanese: 情熱 (jonetsu) which has more to do with the book than piman (green pepper). The book is about 150 mm tall, 3 meters long, and 30 mm thick when closed. And, if you want, you can learn 26 words in Japanese and English. Like the previous notebook with English and Japanese in the margins, this has proven to be quite popular with those who have seen it. All Japanese, they try to figure out why J is for trees, for example. Or why 樹木 (jumoku) is trees. Also, I made a box for it. The box is yellow with a red & yellow elastic ribbon with a nice elaborate bow around it. It goes together quite well with the yellow book. Lots of yellow in this project. All in all, I think this project went well. The process was: choose the words; make a dummy copy; print all the words out; arrange and measure; cut the backing paper; glue; make and attach the cover; make a box...Re-make the box; enjoy. I made the box lid twice because the first idea I had didn't work out so well. No big deal, just more experience making box lids. Fun.
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