One of my all time favorite things is to go to good will or yard sales or a thrift place or whatever place has a ton of other peoples old books and just look for notes.
Like today I found a book from 1967 with a note written on the inner cover "Dee, heres another newbury for you collection!"
Or someones writing class syllabus folded up and tucked into the back of a Brothers Grimm.
Theres something about the human connection of it all
A before and after of my most recent book bind!! This book was so cute and gorgeous - a fantasy romance all about a subby monk cleric who falls in love with a tall warrior woman. It was sooo good. But the original cover was a bit cheesy lol. I ended up spraying the edges with silver spray paint, hence the silver on the paperback cover. Overall I'm soo happy with how it turned out!!
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Attempting to stitch on torn out magazine pages, lol, cause that's normal right?
So far just tackling small scale bookmarks, but hoping to make larger framed projects soon.
So many old magazines that could provide pretty pictures to use. Not sure if the pages or the phrases will provide the inspiration first, or if they'll somehow combine at once perfectly.
One thing they won't tell you about college is that if you find out that you need a piece of paper signed by 5 faculty members in different departments in the span of a week, it simply won't happen. You'll get four signatures in 2 days and then the fourth guy will send it off to the fifth and there will be radio silence and you'll email the fifth like "hey bro any idea how long this will take" and the fifth will be like "lol lmao what paper". And also your advisor will disappear for the entirety of finals week without warning leaving nothing but an automated out-of-the-office email response so you have nobody to turn to for help. And then you won't graduate.