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Monday Jan 12, 2009
Episode 21: Goofing Around New Year's
Monday Jan 12, 2009
Monday Jan 12, 2009
I whipped up my first miniture book one bright and shiny non-snowy December night. (And cut off all my hair and my beard.) The miniture is holiday-themed. For Halloween. Because I recycled a box and it had housed a jack-o-lantern of the plastic and small variety.
First, I folded the signatures in what has been called a Hot Dog fold. If you click the link and then look to the right, you can click on a YouTube video that explains it all. But let me back up. First, I drew a bunch of Halloween-related pictures and wrote a short essay about Halloween on some very thin Chinese-style paper. THEN I folded them in the hot dog fold. This meant that some of the pictures and some of the essay were not visible - they were buried in the folds. This made it a surprise book, even for me.
I used what is called the perfect binding, not because it was perfect but because it looks like a 'real' book, with back, spine, and front. All of those were taken from the jack-o-lantern box
Then everything was hastily and sloppily glued together so that I could get back to my holiday wine. It dried overnight and then I showed it around and people (okay,one person) was suitably impressed but it really was sloppily glued together. It's.... cute, though.
What did we learn from this little excursion into miniture-ness? Folding is fun. Writing and then folding is more fun. Making small things is fun. Sometimes, but I prefer to make more useful things such as calendar or diaries (I'm actually working on one for 2010 as you read this. If you're not reading this in the dead of the night.)
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