{"id":1459,"date":"2013-06-18T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:39:52","slug":"little-paris-travel-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/little-paris-travel-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Paris Travel Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-with-French-Link-Stitch-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" alt=\"Paris Travel Journal with French Link Stitch by Ruth Bleakley\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-with-French-Link-Stitch-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-with-French-Link-Stitch-by-Ruth-Bleakley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-with-French-Link-Stitch-by-Ruth-Bleakley-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-with-French-Link-Stitch-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-with-French-Link-Stitch-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story behind this little Paris-themed handmade book is that it&#8217;s the first I&#8217;ve made in over four months! This might not seem like such a long time, but because of a cross country move I&#8217;ve had to pack up nearly all of my bookbinding studio supplies and put them into storage.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m living in my grandparents&#8217; house, and though they passed away this year they&#8217;ve left a household full of odds and ends which I&#8217;ve used to make this little book (which may still be available for sale in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/154379508\/paris-travel-journal-pocket-sized?\">etsy shop<\/a>)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-with-map-of-Paris.jpg\" alt=\"Small Paris Travel Journal by Ruth Bleakley with map of Paris\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-with-map-of-Paris.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-with-map-of-Paris-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-with-map-of-Paris-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-with-map-of-Paris-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-with-map-of-Paris-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/> The Paris map came from an out-of-date travel guide (&#8220;loose change is sufficient tip for your waiter at most cafes&#8221;) along with the cool &#8220;6 Parisians you should know&#8221; endpapers &#8211; the cover shows the Louvre museum and downtown Paris. The filler paper was a small stack of notepaper I found in my Grandpa&#8217;s desk. I glued the covers, made from notepad backing board, with some white craft glue, and pressed them under a stack of heavy books, since I don&#8217;t have my book press with me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1464\" title=\"Paris Travel Journal - handmade book by Ruth Bleakley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" alt=\"Paris Travel Journal - handmade book by Ruth Bleakley\" width=\"475\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x947.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-71x150.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x842.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Map-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" alt=\"Paris Map Travel Journal by Ruth Bleakley\" width=\"475\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Map-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Map-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Map-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x562.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Map-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Paris-Map-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Inside-Pages-Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Pages - Small Paris Travel Journal by Ruth Bleakley\" width=\"475\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Inside-Pages-Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Inside-Pages-Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Inside-Pages-Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-450x375.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Inside-Pages-Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-150x125.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Inside-Pages-Small-Paris-Travel-Journal-by-Ruth-Bleakley-400x333.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My grandparents lived in Poiters, France for four years in the sixties, and my grandma in particular LOVED France, so I made this with her in mind \ud83d\ude42 It might still be available in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/154379508\/paris-travel-journal-pocket-sized?\">etsy shop<\/a>, depending on when you&#8217;re reading this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind this little Paris-themed handmade book is that it&#8217;s the first I&#8217;ve made in over four months! This might not seem like such a long time, but because of a cross country move I&#8217;ve had to pack up nearly all of my bookbinding studio supplies and put them into storage. Right now I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99],"tags":[46,200,229],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-madeit","tag-bookbinding","tag-french-link-stitch","tag-map"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}