I love love love the use of blank space on the page, such a great tribute to a candy! Head over to flickr to see the rest of her stuff.
Hedgehog Notebooks- FInished
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Finally finished up these notebooks.
3.5×5.5 inches 160 pages in a variety of unlined pages in various papers. Variety of leathers and colors.
All are listed here on my artfire shop.
Whew. In addition to mowing the lawn* I managed to finish that fat stack of 7 hedgehog/ moleskin notebooks I've been sitting on for close to 2 weeks. The elastics and envelopes went in in no time and pressed for a few hours. In that time I glued 6 more blocks into leather covers.
I pulled the finished books out of the press, signed and dated them, stuffed business cards in the pockets and then shot pictures. Edited said pictures and then listed all the items to my artfire shop. It went smoothly and everything looks good.
Thursday I visited my friend in Swampscott and she had been hoarding some paper and advertising posters for me. I walked away with 20 or so posters and about 2 reams of paper. I'll be able to use the guillotine to chop them up into nice matchbook notebooks. The posters are already chopped to size and will be stored until the next time I make a big batch of jotters. I also got some plastic posters that I use for jigs. I set up a jig to make covers with some of the left over scraps as the spine with some great backer board as the cover. I picked up some 30×40 sheets of backer board at the Charette clearance sale in Woburn.So I'm going to try out some new books and stitches. Fun stuff planned.
Tomorrow I'm headed to Western Mass to help a friend set up an ArtFire and an Etsy shop. I"ll spend the afternoon testing out my skillz.
*no small feat considering that it's rained every weekend for the last 3 weeks and I've not been able to mow for that whole time. The grass was halfway to my knees and I"ve got an electric lawn mower… It wasn't pretty.
Finally finished up these notebooks.
3.5×5.5 inches 160 pages in a variety of unlined pages in various papers. Variety of leathers and colors.
All are listed here on my artfire shop.
love the intense stare coming off this page and the litle thumbnails to the left. awesome work by manfred hennessy on flickr
Bastiano's work on flickr is always something I look at, I spent a day not long ago going through his stream and was amazed at the fantastic work. The covers are upcycled office envelopes that have been elaborately decorated and stitiched. The binding is amazing. LOVE these books.
More New Jotter Notebooks
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These jotters almost didn’t make it to Artfire. I’m so in love with the shades of green on the covers of these notebooks these almost remained mine.IF I didn’t already have a box full of jotters these would have been mine. My lose is everyone’s gain ’cause they are on ArtFire here.
These jotters almost didn't make it to Artfire. I'm so in love with the shades of green on the covers of these notebooks these almost remained mine.IF I didn't already have a box full of jotters these would have been mine. My loss is everyone's gain 'cause they are on ArtFire here.
You can also follow the link to the images of these on Flickr and see more pictures of jotters and other notebooks.
I decided to try out a new backdrop for my pictures. I”d ben using the back side of an old coffee bag, that worked very well but lately I felt it was too distracting. IN the past I had used a different burlap bag and it had a tighter weave and was less fibrous. Also it had a large stamp on the back that said Ivory.
In the past I’ve used a white backdrop, which was a simple piece of white posterboard. I liked that very little. It also made getting a good clean shot difficult but made macro shots easy.
I wanted something that keep that rough recycled look but was a little cleaner than the burlap. I found it in kraft paper.
I'm the featured artisan over at Autonomous Artisan. They sent me a few questions and I answered them they posted them with pic on their blog. Aww gee Shucks, anyway head on over and check it out. The blog is fund has a bunch of cool features, they are listed at the top of the window click a tab and check it out.