{"id":995,"date":"2011-10-23T18:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:13:04","slug":"plum-blossom-handmade-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/plum-blossom-handmade-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum Blossom Handmade Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold! My latest in what I like to call my &#8220;Yuzen Book&#8221; series. I wanted to showcase some of my very favorite Japanese Chiyogami papers* by making journals, but I didn&#8217;t want to simply cover boards with the paper &#8211; boring! I decided to pair my favorite papers with lovely handmade paper on the spine that has a great rough texture that pairs nicely with the smooth, but oh-so-colorful yuzen paper. So &#8211; without further ado, may I present my Plum Blossom Yuzen Journal.<\/p>\n<p>*Lots of people have asked WHERE I find my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-7381734-10765024\" rel=\"nofollow\">Japanese Chiyogami papers<\/a> and one of my favorite places to buy gorgeous fine art paper by the sheet is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-7381734-10765024\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paper Source<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(click on &#8220;Japanese Papers&#8221; when you go through the link)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hand-stitched Plum Blossom Journal by MissRuth, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/84504797\/colorful-yuzen-journal-handmade-with\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6052\/6273855181_5653244200.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-stitched Plum Blossom Journal\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Plum Blossom Yuzen Journal by RuthBleakley on Etsy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/84504797\/colorful-yuzen-journal-handmade-with\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6218\/6273855579_d7bf740205.jpg\" alt=\"Plum Blossom Yuzen Journal\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Inside of the book by MissRuth, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/84504797\/colorful-yuzen-journal-handmade-with\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6019\/6273855333_df1b59c6a3.jpg\" alt=\"Inside of the book\" width=\"450\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Coptic Stitch Journal by MissRuth, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/84504797\/colorful-yuzen-journal-handmade-with\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6091\/6274380276_2cb1f0c1fd.jpg\" alt=\"Coptic Stitch Journal\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address>this post contains affiliate links<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold! My latest in what I like to call my &#8220;Yuzen Book&#8221; series. I wanted to showcase some of my very favorite Japanese Chiyogami papers* by making journals, but I didn&#8217;t want to simply cover boards with the paper &#8211; boring! I decided to pair my favorite papers with lovely handmade paper on the spine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,99],"tags":[46,172,170,171],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}