{"id":1547,"date":"2014-02-06T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:38:41","slug":"tiny-little-pamphlet-books-made-just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/tiny-little-pamphlet-books-made-just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny little pamphlet books made just for fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blue<\/p>\n

Today I’m showing off these cute little blue pamphlet stitch and perfect bound (glued spine) books I made – I printed out sheets of patterned paper myself – I have a fairly fancy Canon printer because I have a stationery business<\/a>, and I have LOTS of black ink, so I experimented with printing my own patterns on card stock, with great success.<\/p>\n

Over the past few days I’ve been challenging myself to:<\/h4>\n

A) work on bookbinding projects “just for fun” and<\/p>\n

B) Start and finish a project in one sitting – or at least clean up after myself after each project!<\/p>\n

For those of you who are reading and going “what do you mean, just for fun? it looks like you’re always having fun!” Well, yes I am, I love bookbinding – in fact, I sometimes jokingly refer to it as more of a “compulsion” than a hobby. HOWEVER, I start to get into a mode where I think “if I make this, will it sell?”<\/p>\n

I do rely on sales from my etsy shop<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and local craft fairs to help keep me from being buried in a pile of handmade books, as well as fund new paper purchases and all that fun stuff. But then I end up making mostly things I know will sell, and rarely experimenting or just doing whatever I want (fellow crafters, does this happen to you?).<\/p>\n

So I’m changing that!<\/p>\n

And now, less talk, more pictures:<\/p>\n

\"blue<\/p>\n

\"Gluing<\/p>\n

\"tiny(and then ‘viola!’ your tiny book magically grows larger after you cut it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just kidding! I forgot to take a picture of the smaller book with trimmed edges, so this will have to do!)<\/p>\n

I can’t find my trusty very favorite bookbinding awl<\/a> (so sad! it’s in here somewhere\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6) so after getting fed up with piercing holes for pamphlet stitch with a needle, I thought “hmm, is it possible to just do a glue binding with PVA?” and then in the spirit of “doing whatever I want for fun” I tried it, and it came out great.<\/p>\n

And in case you were wondering, yes I did manage to also come through on challenge B, cleaning up after myself – here’s the proof! Maybe one day if I’m feeling more self-revelatory I’ll post what it looked like BEFORE I took it upon myself to keep it clean…
\n\"Ruth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I’m showing off these cute little blue pamphlet stitch and perfect bound (glued spine) books I made – I printed out sheets of patterned paper myself – I have a fairly fancy Canon printer because I have a stationery business, and I have LOTS of black ink, so I experimented with printing my own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,99],"tags":[232,233],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}