two more books

I made two books this weekend, mostly at the same time. The most difficult part is that I live in a tiny house and don't have much space to work. Husband was gone so I could use the entire eating table and didn't have to clean up the space. 

The next most difficult part was cutting the book boards. I store the book board under my living room rug to keep it flat and out of the way. I wear a kitchen glove when cutting. The kind of glove that you wear in the kitchen to prevent knife cuts. I dread the book board cutting part and don't like doing it because I end up with sort of crooked-y boards (in reality, you can barely tell they are a bit off) and wreck a good chunk of the board each time. The 4 boards I cut this weekend were all slightly different sizes but I matched them up in close-enough pairs. One board I had cut into accidentally by not following Roz's advice about cutting into the waste side but I used it anyway. I didn't cut into it too deep. I might have to buy one of those fancy heavy T-bar straightedges or be a member at MCBA and use their board cutter thing. 

The rest of the parts I enjoy doing. Ripping, sewing, pounding, glueing, wrapping. 

Books turned out fine! The orange is a bit orange but I won't lose it and no one will steal it. Paper is all Nideggen. I bought a yard of each fabric and will now have enough to make 5 more books of each color in the same size. Eeek! I'll try some other papers next and maybe even another size. 

Now I have 3 books that I have to make myself use. With 3, they aren't so precious and I think I'll be okay using them. I'm heading to Alaska tomorrow for a week of fishing and doing nothing I hope, and will take only one book, some ink pens, colored pencils, my travel box of watercolors, and water brushes. I am going to make myself use my book. I already gelli printed on random pages of the book! Now it will be easier to draw in it.