I have completed numerous journals that customers chose from the many vintage books I have listed in my shop. Since I can't make these fast enough to list them all in my shop at once, I try to give people the chance to find the right book to have made into a new journal. They are listed in
my shop (
section: Rebound Journals) so you can choose which book you would like for a journal. Turn around time is about 1 week (plus shipping time). Here's how a few of them turned out:
Andersen's Fairy Tales from 1956:
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I was really pleased with the black and white harlequin paper to wrap the signatures paired with the pink thread! It matched perfectly! |
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I still have Aesop's fables and both English and German versions of Grimm's fairy tales available. |
A French Reader from 1903:
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I used a Victorian style paper for the endpapers and to wrap each signature. |
L'art de conjuguer (French verb conjugation guide) from 1966. This book is still being used in Canadian schools today. I tried to convince my daughter that she should use this vintage copy, but she insisted on the newer copy with 16000 verbs (and was probably better off)!
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Since this journal was heading off to France, I used maps for the endpapers. |
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I still have the Spanish and Latin books available. |
Laura, you're so faithful to your blogging! And always so interesting. I need lessons. Oh, wait. Maybe I just need DISCIPLINE! Let's see if I can find that on line somewhere . . .
ReplyDeleteThanks for your encouraging words Cindy! I usually feel very undisciplined and irregular here myself so it's nice to hear words like yours.
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