Mon 22 Dec, 2008
My parner and I are hopelessly sentimental (this is why our house will soon be stacked high with junk that we can’t bear to throw away because it has some kind of memory attached to it!). I think traditions go hand in hand with sentiment; Part of our sentimentality caused us to start a tradition for our first Christmas together (one year ago!) whereby we’d make a decoration for our tree each year. She makes pretty cool little figures from Fimo and other types of modelling clay… I tried, and soon found out that my talent for making that stuff reached it’s peak at, well, I think about age 6. My attempts at making things like that still look like they were done by a 6year old. Consequently, I ditched that idea this year, and decided to make a little christmas-themed book to hang on the tree, which was big enough for a small message each year.
Small leather tight-back for the christmas tree!
It’s a simple leather-bound, tight-back, blank journal about 6cm (~2.5″) square. It has 8 signatures of 4 sheets each (8 sides) made of my favourite paper for binding – 120gsm Zerkall laid paper. The cover is made of a small segment of christmas wrapping paper.
Maybe I’ll make some to sell next year… hopefully I’ll have more time for it than I do this time around!