Today was a productive day. I made 4 micro mini journals as you can see in my previous entries. I’ll be listing those on eBay.

I also managed to finish 2 travel-sized journals. One in distressed leather and the other in a cocoa brown leather. It’s one of the last cocoa brown leather covers I have left, so there won’t be many more of them. I’m trying to create a bit of a back stock in the journals for eBay, but it’s getting hard with the day job. Now that I screwed up and have to count inventory every other week it’s going to throw me off even more than I am now. I do plan on leaving early tomorrow, after my 11-hour shift yesterday I need to get out and work on things here. Today was really quite great. I left, having done a 7-hour shift and managed to get a lot done here. I did it all while watching TV.

So I’ve listed a bunch of things up on eBay, links are here:

Distressed Leather
Cocoa Brown Leather
Distressed Leather MIcro Mini Journal
Smooth Black Leather

I finished this journal earlier today. It measuers 1.25inches whide by 1.5 inches high. It has all the same things as my regular journals- fun inner paper, acid free archival paper and a flap and thong. All in miniature, that is a quarter you see in the picture. It’s a single signature, 20 pages signed and numbered just like my full sized journals.

   

I Just finished these 2 journals, that makes 4 for today, I’m pretty happy with my productivity, I’ve don’e well. if i really buckled down I could have made 6 today. Instead I took a nap. It’s my sort of day off. ..

Though I love my time in the studio I do need time off to relax and refresh myself from the rigors of the day job as well as from the journals.

Anyway, the two journals are both alternating long stitch sewn to slots on the spine, they made great patterns and I’ve found the right length for the slots for 10 or 9 signatures. i’m in love with the black leather and plan on ordering another hide soon. I’m also planing on making a journal like this only larger- 6×9 inches. No lines though, that’s only going to be for special orders. Well, that and the printer was making some funky noises when I printed out my sales reports.

these will go up on ebay at some point, I think, they may be nice for the stock journal page for my website.

I plan on working on some ideas for my custom order page. I realise I need some helpful guidelines for people seeking a custom journal, price range etc. . . So i’m going to think about it and write it all down.

Here’s another of the eBay line with holes versus slots. I like the look of both slots and holes but really the black linen against the distressed leather is fantastic. This one took no time to sew, and it looks really great.

I’ve also put it up on eBay. It’s here:
Distressed Leather