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Made some simple bookmarks today. Cut up with the water color paper, rounded the corners, and added some hugs & kisses.

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One of the best things about being a creator is that you clean out your workroom and find cool stuff that you made years ago. LOL.

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5th Doctor enters the chat

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On to Adventure!

I've been resorting my website and moving items to Etsy. This is one of the handmade journals that made it!

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I added a new listing to my Etsy Shop.

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Cutting Paper for a new Journal

It's been a while since I've made a new journal. It feels good to make them again. I got a bit burned out. (I've made 4,800 or so of them.) I'm using up some of the supplies/covers/paper that I have in my craft room. I've had to buy some new closures.

The tough thing is that I have to refigure out how to do my website. The traffic has been slow since March 2024. Part of it is that my hosting company is promoting their new 'service' where they put woocommerce websites. Since they've been promoting it, my woocommerce website has slooooooowwwwed down. Or maybe google isn't my friend anymore. I used to get lots of organic traffic, but not so much anymore.

It could be the two things working together. The hosting company not providing the speed it advertises and google could be sending all the inquiries to their own results.

But who knows. I've been making journals since 2014, so it's been ten years. I've been through at least 5 paper cutters, 20 craft knives, reams and reams of paper, and have sold thousands of journals.

I can adjust to this new normal. :)

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Working on a plan to finish my wip.

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I've made a few junk journal covers out of old book covers, brown paper bags, book cloth and a few other supplies. I'm going to start the signatures tomorrow.

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Taking a short break today.

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(via Tea Stained Pocket Notebooks)

I made a tutorial for these pocket notebooks made with tea stained paper, book tape and ephemera

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Working on the junk journal pages

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More progress on the junk journal!

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Making some tea stained index cards today

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The kitchen is finally mended. I'm so happy!

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Near the beach

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Cutting up boards today for journal covers.

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(via Summer Recycled Book Journal)

Part of the $10.00 Journal sale on my website, www.paperbutterflyforge.com