Sunday 23 January 2011

I want to be the Sherrif of Stationery Village!

On Thursday night the lovely Life Craft had a Journal Making Workshop. As an admirer of crisp fresh notebooks I just had to have a go. The class was led by the fantastic Lucy Jackson, who not only gave us great hints and tips, sent us home with our journals made & instructions in hand, so we can do it again. Lucy describes herself as a craftaholic - this is a term I can so understand! We made A5 journals, with padded covers, and 60 pages inside. We learnt to do coptic binding to tie it all together. And when asked if I wanted to put buttons on the front - of course I said yes!
I am a quite a messy person, and did fear that my journal would come out with odd shaped pages and a little wobbly - but my fears are vanished, the journal is very sturdy and professional looking. This is certainly a craft I want to try again and again. Maybe one day I'll get to have my very own stationery village like Howard Moon!

3 comments:

  1. I am so glad that you enjoyed the workshop and were happy with your journal.
    Thank you so much for your lovely comments, they mean a lot to me especially as it was the first time doing the class :)

    AND stationery village! i might have to make my own one of those, that's Amazing and makes so much sense the stickier the tape the higher the branch and a bluetack garden i need one of those!

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