Saturday, February 12, 2011

New Old Hobby


As a person who writes a lot and has filled almost 20 journals I'm a tiny bit addicted to notebooks. Notebooks always makes me happy.
And I always loved books and ever since I can remember I wanted to know how to make my own notebooks. Bookbinding is such a fascinating thing to me and I would love to learn it one day.
When I was 14/15 years old I loved to make notebooks. I tried my best, glued paper together to pages and they really turned out pretty good (for someone who has no idea about bookbinding). I gave some of them away as presents for friends, but I still have some of them.
A few weeks ago I had this feeling, that I have to start again. I made some notebooks. They are completely different, not like actual bookbinding, but I love them.
And as some of you know, I love to work with books. So again, I ripped out some pages of this awesome book I found at the library's flea market and created those little books.

 At the moment I have three of them, but I want to make more.

A red touch at the back ;)

What do you think?

15 comments:

  1. Those are oh-so-cute!!

    You asked if my giveaway was open to international readers, YES! it is!

    You completely free to enter in it!

    Thanks SO much for you interest!

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  2. I want one!! Ohh they're lovely! You should do a giveaway!

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  3. P.S. I saw on your sidebar that you want to brush up on your French. Me too! How much do you know?
    (If you could learn English, then I can learn French!)

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  4. Ashley: Thanks! :)

    Amber: Yeah, maybe I should do a giveaway. I love hosting giveaways :)
    How much French I now? I learned it at school 4 years long, but I've already forgot a lot :(
    French is so hard to learn, but I'm sure I can improve my skills if I really want.
    How much do you know?

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  5. oh my gosh! Those are so cute. :) I want one! :D

    xx,
    Bleah

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  6. whoa... aren't those the most awesome notebooks ever?? i have a thing for notebooks too... and yes, as a child i also did try to make one out of old elementary notebooks... how's that? it came out to be a total disaster. haha....♥

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  7. They look soooo nice! Think you could make a how- to- make tutorial?

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  8. How creative! I absolutely love them. =)

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  9. WOW! I want one! They are sooo gorgeous!

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  10. Thank you for all your lovely comments. Nice to hear, that you like them.
    Maybe you get a chance to win one someday...I love doing giveaways :)

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  11. Wow, love the journals! They look awesome! How did you paste the old book pages to the cover? Glue? A special kind of craft glue, or just a regular glue stick?

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  12. I'm with everyone else-those are awesome!!! I tried making notebooks when I was younger but they never turned out very well-maybe trying again with a better system wouldn't be a terrible idea... OR I could just redecorate my older notebooks that look tacky. I second Georgianna's question :).

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  13. Georgianna and Elizabeth: Thanks a lot! (And thanks Elizabeth for all your comments, I try to reply to all of them later :))
    About the book page pieces. I think I used glue, but a regular glue stick works fine as well. You don't need anything special.

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