Handy Dandy Handycrafty Thread

Ok good it's only been 5 months, this is a better pace than I'd honestly been expecting

This weekend, a friend and I took a three hour drive to stay with a friend in Hyuga. Said friend doesn't have a car so hitting shops of mutual interest (second-hand stores, dollar stores, and a craft supplies shop) made for a fun afternoon of fruitlessly insisting to ourselves that our fabric stashes did not need further additions.

On the bright side, more fabric meant nailing down a Craft Night at some point this week with friend, meaning I will have to make my room presentable within the week.

I bought a cute basket to stash all my nicer paperthings in, so emptied out the old one aaand...



(Sue me for the image, I started snapchatting it for Dini, who procured me the paper which ended up being the cover)
Having literally just sorted and labelled my boxes of craft supplies, I whipped out the toughest string I had (that green stuff), some PVA, and a few bits of corrugated cardboard, and got to work. I cut two bits of cardboard out, each with a spine-width bit scored up one side. The spine-piece of one was the same height as the stack of paper, the other was as big as that plus the width of the cardboard. I did a bunch of loose double-knots up the side, then stabbed strategic holes in the scored corner of the "inner" spine-card and lashed the bundled-up paper to at least one bit of cardboard. I then duct-taped the second board to the one with the pages tied in, first on the outside then tidily as I could manage on the top and bottom.



Like I said, Dini send me some cool paper with game birds on it, which I'd been dawdling about finding a use for. I cut it roughly enough to size, slathered the outsides of the book in PVA, then swaddled it in shiny pheasant-paper.


Some pleasant pheasants. Somehow, it didn't actually occur to me to bind it in this stuff until after I'd started putting the book together. I guess this is why people who actually make shit keep craft stashes????

I vaguely recalled from reading about bookbinding somewhere that after you fold the outer binding in, you paste a plate(?) on the inside covers, to make it all tidy. Two laps of the kotatsu later, I found a pile of pages with photos of animals, which somehow worked out the perfect size.

Results!