The shoemaker’s kid has shoes!

After 10 years and 1 day, I finally finished my wedding albums.
I tried to get them done in time for our anniversary, but I got sick last week. Meh.
For years, my hubby has threatened to buy albums from a store so he could start putting in our photos. That was so not going to happen. [...]

Working working working…

Somehow a week has passed since my last post.
Meh.
Holidays love to throw a monkey wrench into things. And usually I like monkeys.
I’ve been busy working on my sister-in-law’s wedding invitations. As I’m sure many of you can relate, they are taking much longer to complete than I had anticipated.
To date, 12 Duck Permanent Adhesive Rollers [...]

Please tell me what to do

My husband’s brother and sister are both getting married this summer (not to each other, ew). I offered both couples a wedding gift of handmade invitations and both accepted. I spent the last several days in a frantic whirlwind of wedding invitation assembly for couple #1. (Don’t get me started on the printer nightmare I [...]

What happened to the paper in Paper Source?

As I’ve mentioned several times before, I owe my love of bookbinding to Paper Source. When I was in graduate school for Art Therapy at Lesley University, I passed by Paper Source on my way to and from my classes. I jumped at the opportunity to work there when I saw the “help wanted” sign [...]

Custom order guest book – done deal

Today there was no throwing of things (not even soft things), as I threatened in yesterday’s post. I pulled my guest book out of the press and it was just perfect. I ran upstairs from my studio to my husband like an eight year-old. “Ohhhh…..look at what I made! I like it soooo much! Lookie [...]

Guest books and gluing drama…

For the past week I have been working on a custom order for a guest book. I have to admit that when my customer picked out her choice of materials, I did not think that the combination was going to work. However, I have been proven wrong throughout the process of making the book – [...]