{"id":137,"date":"2009-06-01T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-07-22T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:38:36","slug":"new-journal-for-ian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/new-journal-for-ian\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting a New Cover on a Thrift Store Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I practiced a little journal up-cycling while creating something for my friend Ian. The original journal was plain, pink covers with the word &#8220;Journal&#8221; stamped in gold type on the front cover. The pages were lined which was a plus, and it had never been used. I gave it a new cover and fancy new endpapers and sewed on some headbands for a little touch of class. The final touch will be a cover decoration featuring a fire-breathing dragon, a step I haven&#8217;t gotten to yet!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4190.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 1\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4190.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4190-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4190-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This journal needs a new look!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4162.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 2\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4162.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4162-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4162-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The inside of the journal pre-makeover<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4191.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 2\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4191.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4191-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4191-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First you cut the endpapers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4192.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 3\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4192.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4192-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4192-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">here&#8217;s the text block released from one side of the cover<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4193.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 4\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4193.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4193-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4193-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I hand-stitched new endbands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4195.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 5\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4195.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4195-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4195-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the new endpaper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4198.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 6\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4198.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4198-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4198-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">pasting down the covers with PVA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4197.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 7\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4197.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4197-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4197-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">one cover fully pasted down &#8211; the white paper is from the old endpages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4235.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 8\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4235.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4235-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4235-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Finished book with endpapers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4237.jpg\" alt=\"Journal Re-covering project by Ruth Bleakley - 9\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4237.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4237-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cimg4237-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">finished book &#8211; I added a matching bookmark over the endbands<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step-by-step of how I upcycled a pink gold-stamped journal into a nice black leather journal with fancy endpages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98],"tags":[56,57,12,55,54,53],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}