So I’ve got to head to the day job sometimes soon and I’ve finished 2 of the journals I set up to finish. I had hoped to finish at least one more, but I did manage to list them both on eBay, so I guess that makes it worthwhile.

They are listed here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6963359579

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6963346244

There are pictures in the last two entries. They were pretty slick to sew. It took just a little time to punch the stations and sew the spine. So I’m pretty happy with that. I love the chocolate brown cover; it’s just so soft. It really is the softest leather I’ve ever bound a book in, like a baby’s bottom! The deer is soft too, just not as soft as that lamb hide.

In addition tot eh day job I need to pick up more glue, i always run out at teh least opportune moment.

Today is gorgeous and sunny. I’ll be spending plenty of time soaking up those rays but in the rest of the day I have a lot of work to do. I made up 8 covers last night and cut the spines this morning. I spent a good part of the morning folding the pages into signatures and gathering them for sewing. This afternoon will be spent sewing many of them.

Sadly I have to ruin my day off by going into work and working on a special order. Things like that tend to ruin great plans. Not that I mind so much the special order but that I have to go in on my day off and make them.

Things have been going well. The custom orders have tapered off a bit but eBay has been going well for me. I think that I found my buy-it-now price, it’s not as high as I would like, but it keeps me in supplies and with a small profit margin, meaning I get paid about $5 an hour for my efforts, if that.

Later today I’m going to cut some black and distressed covers for eBay sales. Right now all I’ve got is this chocolate sheep hide, golden deer hide and blue cow hide. I’d like to get the distressed back up. They are a consistent sale and a good look. I think it would be nice to have 4 to 6 different styles up on eBay at any one time, that way I can maximize my sales potential. Thought I can’t really say that it will help. I’m never sure with these things.

I have to run to the post office and put out a package for Australia.

Okay, I’ve decided to list the small pink journal on eBay, BigBlue has gone to my web page. I can’t bear to part with big blue for less than it’s actually worth.

So LittlePink is listed HERE

Check it out!

BigBlue is listed on my website HERE!

I am more than a little excited about his journal that I just made for Scarlett. It was perhaps the biggest challenge that I’ve set myself up for in a long time and I see that my long dormant binding skills are surfacing and succeeding in looking good.

I need to make sure that I get a lot of pictures of this journal before I mail it out because it is one of my better journals.

I like the technique so much that I’m making a bunch of covers with the pink hide- all distressed but with different colors. I’ve got another going I the pink I used originally. I’m working on ideas in my head to use blues and purples. I saw a bunch of paste paper covers today and I was wondering what the hides would look like if I ladled on paint and medium mixed with water and then sandwiched it together, or used some plexi to smoosh the paint into the leather. I’m going to try it and we’ll see how it looks.

We’ve got a nasty storm hitting us right now and I’m gonna turn off the compy so I don’t fry this one.