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Great moleskine drawing on flikr.

Sign Vinyl Journal, more pages
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I started making the large sized sign vinyl journals agian. These are 6×9 inches. Each side of the cover has a large pocket for storage of what not. I've upped the number of pages from 160 to 240 and it's filled with ivory Wausau acid free paper. It's 24lb and perfect for writing on with a variety of instruments. I"ve stitched the spine with natural unbelached and lightly hand waxed hemp. It's rugged and sturdy for everyday use and travel.

You can see it and others like it here on my etsy shop.

Destash- Sign Vinyl Jotters Funny size
Originally uploaded by lessherger

These odd sized jotters-5×6 are nice and chunky ready for writing of any sort. They are filled with great paper and are 100% recycled. THe covers are a soft flexible smoothly textured sign vinyl.

See them on etsy here.

Destash- New Old Stock Jotters
Originally uploaded by lessherger

Clearing out some old stock that I had in the bottom of my etsy drawer. These are all pretty cool little jotters, back from the days when I first started making them.

Find them on my etsy site here.

Destash- Hand Painted Jotters
Originally uploaded by lessherger

These are up on my etsy account. You can see them here.

These are small sized jotters with hand painted and stenciled covers. They are acrylic paints with some spray paint stencils on them.

Up on etsy for a steal.

Sunny Yellow and Pink, Signs of Spring
Originally uploaded by lessherger

Spring has sprung, in some places but not here in the northeast. I put a mass amount of jotters up on etsy this weekend, 12 sets. 3 different types of paper, the 1984 IBM computer paper in green and white, then Strathmore in white and gray. All sorts of colored covers too, pinks, yellow, blues, greens and gray.

These colors remind me of spring, bright cheerful and with leafy flowery patterning on the covers.

Bright Big JOtters
Originally uploaded by lessherger

Introducing BIG jotters. Yeah, you heard me big ones. Same recycled covers, great paper inside, but measuring 5.25wx 8.25 high, just like a large sized moleskine cahier. 48 pages of 24lb 25% cotton cream colored paper. The covers vary from bunch to bunch but are larger representations of the small jotters I usually make. Priced to move at $11.99 for a 6 pack.

Something else interesting in the works, I’m going to de-clutter and de-stash my stash during this coming week. I’ve got an assortment of books like I haven’t made in awhile, some more seconds and a variety of other items I need to get rid of, so I’ll be listing those over the course of the next week or two, some exciting things that I haven’t made in quite some time will be list and it will be awesome!

January 9, 2009
Originally uploaded by thirdpersonpossessive

If you haven't checked out Nicole's blog here you are missing out. It's a brilliant idea.

Tram Ride
Originally uploaded by robobop

Great pick from robobop on flickr.

It's 17 degrees up here in Mass and My car needs warming so I don't freeze my fingers off. So while I warm my car I figured I do a brief update.

THe paper shear continues to be my most significant purchase, ever. I suspect it has cut the time I use to make books in less than half. (Pun totally intended.) I'm able to run through jotters and matchbook notebooks so fast it's amazing. As a result I've lowered the prices on my  jotters, I'm now offering a 6 pack for $7.99 plus shipping. I'm still working out a new price for the matchbook notebooks, but you can expect to see a drop in their price as well.

I picked up some great paper for hedgehogs a few weeks ago at charette. I snagged several hundreds of sheets at a great price and I've stitched up 10 blocks so far. I trimmed them and will be gluing them this weekend and maybe even adding a few covers. I had stopped doing hedgehogs because to get them trimmed I had to take them to staples and it cost 50 cents a cut, which sounds like not alot until you realize each block takes about 3 cuts and I could only get one of the guys to stack 3 blocks in the machine the other would only do 2 at a time. So as you can guess it was pricey. Again the shear to the rescue. In less than 10 minutes I was able trim all 10 books to the right size with great straight edges.

Anyway you can find the jotters with he new price in my etsy shop. I hav a ton more in different colors and papers, email me to find out more.