What I've been up to lately
Making plenty of notebook/journals to add to my Etsy shop. Now to I just need to actually update my shop. xo Alicia
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Playing with Paper and Thread
I've been working on different stitches for binding on art journals I'm making. I spent the weekend cutting and folding junk mail envelopes into signatures. I need to work on the covers but I have plenty of signatures, enough to make about 10 books. I made a protoype using coptic binding. Okay I'm off to go work on some covers. xo Alicia
Made With Love
These are my sisters' Valentine cards in their first stage. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day! Happy Valentine's Day! xo Alicia
Yarn Ornaments
These are the other ornaments on the tree. I would love to say that we made these but really they're from the Target dollar section. I assume they were popular because of the price and since we only found three of each. So the tree was looking a little bare. While reading someone's blog (I forgot who, otherwise I'd give them credit), I came across this DIY Yarn Ornament tutorial, I knew it would fit in perfectly with these cuties. I made three over the weekend and finished up a few more the other night. xo Alicia
Handmade Journal, I Made it!
This has been my secret project for awhile now. Make a journal out of recycled materials. I've had the idea floating around for over a year now. Especially since I have a ton of old magazines laying around. I already save certain images to use in my personal journal. But I wanted a way to use those pages that have great images on both sides. I watched several videos before I decided on the way I wanted to bind it all together. There were a few test runs that were good but not great solutions. So here is the final product. I used a granola bar box and covered it with a paper bag I had laying around. There was a ton of measuring for the pages and trimming the paper down to the right size. Then I bound all my pages by sewing them into the spine of my book. It was tedious but worth it. I'm currently in the process of making more. I gave my BFF one of the early prototypes so I can't wait to give her one of new and improved journals. ...