book-boinding
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013A new year has started, time for a fresh start in a new calendar-book. This time I wanted to try something a little different. The past years I´ve made my books from scratch, but this time I wanted the cover to be a recycled book cover. I do find some nice old books at the [...]
mini-booklets
Friday, July 13th, 2012My collection of new mini-book-pendants is coming along. Lots of new colors, both in the skin/leather and on the pages. The leather used is fish-skin. Some salmon, some Nile-carp. (So not from around here ) The surface is very rough on some, on others very smooth, almost like a glazed surface. It all depends on [...]
lazy days
Monday, July 9th, 2012The morning haze, 180 degree view from the boathouse: In between all the boating, I´ve been working on book-binding. A new range of mini book-pendants are on their way in a myriad of colors: Hopefully I´ll have some of them ready within a few days.
Welcome to the world book 2
Friday, June 1st, 2012Step 1: paint the cover-fabric with fabric paint Step 2: let it dry, and iron to seal the fabric paint Step 3: “draw” a freestyle face with the sewing machine Step 4: add hair, hat, and dress with applique and more freestyle machine embroidery Step 5: add color to the face and glue down onto [...]
Welcome to the world!-book
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012I´ve made it a tradition to make a Welcome to the World! -book to each of my nieces, nephews and God-children. This weekend two more are being baptized, and two more books need to be made. I make the outside, and bind the book, but the whole family contributes to the inside content. Each family-member [...]
Pendant snake-skin booklet
Monday, April 16th, 2012I made a new couple (ok, 7-8) of miniature books. One with shiny, red snakeskin, and one with matte, dark blue salmon-skin, to sell in my Etsy-shop. So if you want one, now´s your chance! The inside of the skin, with glued down cardboard. I use acid-free book-binding glue. Each booklet has 22 pages, made [...]
Arting at Michelle´s day 1
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012The day´s adventure started in Alberta street. Meeting a bunch of other artists, some coming to Artfest, others not, but all met up at Collage, the art-store in the artsy part of Portland. Lunch with the arting-ladies! At the best home-made French food restaurant in Alberta. Portland is known as the greenest city in the [...]
1 – Advent calender booklet
Thursday, December 1st, 2011Our baby wanted a “Things-to-do-and-make”-calender this year, instead of a more common things-or-chocolate calender. So I made this little booklet for her. The cover is in hot pink silk dupion. And hidden in the soft spine is a little bouquet of mini-flowers. I simply glued down the silk to the paper in the spine-area, and [...]
Art & Soul journal
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011My journal from Art & Soul, maybe you´d like to see it? I got a free hard-board blank book the first night, and thought I´d use it as a place to gather my memories from Art & Soul. First day there was a 5 minute make&take in encaustic, where anyone passing by was allowed to try [...]
Art&Soul: Doll Booklet pendant
Saturday, October 1st, 2011A new day, and a new class. This time with the wonderful and funny Jen Crossley from Australia. This was the perfect class, so much fun stuff going on: filing, drilling, etching, adding patin, sanding, bending and stitching. Work in progress below. Though there was a pre-made design, we all added our own personal style [...]
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