tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10555050592118822202024-03-13T04:09:50.079+02:00PaperiaarreKaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.comBlogger650125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-49160727041766205412016-07-08T23:22:00.002+03:002016-07-08T23:22:23.567+03:00This blog has movedHello darling blog subscriber,<br />
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Just a quick note from me today as I'm in the middle of putting in the final touches to my new website, and I've spent way, way too much time staring at a screen this week. Still, I wanted to share with you these notebooks I've recently made as gifts to people I'm glad to have in and around my life. <br />
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This magpie bullet journal I made for my new friend in Sweden. He likes magpies and bookbinding.<br />
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The inner covers are lined with pages from an old fauna book. The back cover also has some handwritten notes.<br />
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These two notebooks are on their way to someone who doesn't read this blog, so I can share these without ruining the surprise. I'm enjoying the minimalism of using actual book cloth again, but I haven't abandoned my favourite material linen. Quite the opposite: there are some really pretty gilt linen books underway.<br />
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The dark gray one is a little larger sewn boards binding than my tiny samples earlier, and it has lightweight watercolour paper pages suitable for all sorts of artistic endeavours. <br />
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The black long stitch binding has dotted grid drawing paper pages. I hope there will be doodles on these pages, too.<br />
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If you're looking for a dotted grid notebook for yourself, I just added ten new long stitch hardcover notebooks to my shop. Their pages are made of heavyweight bright white drawing paper. The last lot of long stitch bullet journals sold super fast (thanks, guys!!), so head over to <a href="http://paperiaarre.etsy.com/" target="_blank">my shop </a>before they're all gone!<br />
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<br />Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-77238749355151913672016-07-04T14:49:00.000+03:002016-07-07T16:37:03.190+03:00mixed media monday - préface<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If done right, a preface leaves things just open enough. It does not reveal too much of what's to come, but gives you an angle to focus on that makes reading the rest of the book a little more rewarding. I must admit, I hardly ever read forewords for novels - I want to face the book fresh, and the foreword written by someone other than the author isn't usually something the book's author intended to be an integral part of the reading experience (and I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to having an authentic experience - if a book is written in English, I'll most likely read it in English instead of as a Finnish translation). Prefaces are an introduction written by the author, and, as such, something I consider very much a relevant part of the whole. This preface I made for you is still missing the rest of the story, but maybe that will come with time.<br />
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This beautiful old photo of two girls writing comes from an old Swedish photo album that once belonged to a girl named Bodil, and my family much later found it and gifted it to me. There are tens of photos from 1913 to 1922, all quite adorable and high quality. I expect Bodil's story to continue in my work for years to come.<br />
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Freshwater pearls are a recurring element in my mixed media work. They have this amazing glow to them that seems to illuminate everything around them, and they go well with the vintage materials I use. Also, they're not perfect - their asymmetry is better than perfection.<br />
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I feel many people live as though the current moment is just a preface to their happy life. Life is life. I'm glad to be in a strangely good place in my life, but I'm still guilty of sometimes just waiting for my life to begin. Thankfully that happens less and less often. I'm 32, I think life began some time ago.<br />
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PS. the windy collage from two weeks ago is now also <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/450537124/original-vintage-photo-mixed-media" target="_blank">available in my shop</a><br />
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Well this was a trip down the memory lane... The last time I made a book using the caterpillar stitch was in 2004 or 2005 when I was still a bookbinding student. Some things get better with age - and some things don't. This project was a fail, at least to me, no matter how it looks at a first glance. <br />
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I ambitiously went with a very curved design and remembered too late that there was a very special(=tricky) way to keep that core somewhat centered along the curves. Now my centipede/caterpillar looks like it's missing some legs at the inner curves, and the tension at the spine also leaves a lot to hope for. The front cover fails to stay properly closed, but at least it's much better than some caterpillar stitch books that fail to close at all.<br />
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In the caterpillar stitch the stitches that form the legs are done first
and the core wrapping takes place a few steps later, making it pretty
difficult to estimate the perfect amount of tension in the stitches done
first, especially when it's been 10+ years since the last attempt to
get it right. So, I ended up with a deformed bug and a slightly too tight stitching on the spine. But I did do some things right, so let's focus on those things a bit: The caterpillar stitch alone is very unstable, so it's advisable to use other stitches to support the spine better -> the four-needle Coptic binding did the job perfectly. Using another method for the primary binding meant I didn't have to sew the caterpillar through each and every signature on the spine -> the caterpillar core looked pretty balanced even as it crossed the spine. Mind you, I didn't count the number of wraps I did around the core at each section as I wanted some variation along the length of the core, so that variation helped with masking some uneven distances between pairs of legs, too.<br />
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Now I've checked one more bookbinding technique off my list of things to try again/learn for the first time, but I'm not sure this one made much sense. I've seen some pretty cool books with caterpillar stitch - it works with a more rustic look than the one I usually sport, and it can be just the thing to add as a detail to an artists' book. The caterpillar stitch gives you a pretty unique look, but I don't really know
why one would want a caterpillar on one's book to begin with. The stitching is pretty impractical in its bulkiness and predisposition to excessive wear, so, in my books, this falls into to the try only for curiosity section of bookbinding structures. It can keep company to <a href="http://www.ibookbinding.com/blog/top-10-secret-belgian-binding-tutorials/" target="_blank">the crisscross binding</a> (formerly known as the secret Belgian binding) there.<br />
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To be honest, the success of the crisscross binding in the craftier bookbinding circles is pretty baffling to me. I get that glueing can be scary and it's easier to begin learning bookbinding by trying out book techniques less likely to totally fail than casing in hardcover books, but still, that book basically comes apart when any single one of the very much exposed threads breaks from continuous friction. Again, I'm all for variety in bookbinding structures, but this is another technique that I'd much rather see used primarily for artists' books as they are handled much less often and more carefully than any notebook ever.<br />
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If you want to try your hand at the caterpillar stitch regardless of all I said above, you can find an illustrated tutorial <a href="http://www.canberrabookbinders.org.au/news/tutorials/caterpillar-stitch/" target="_blank">here</a>. I'll get back to my search for bookbinding structures to try that have a chance of passing my practicality screening...Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-65877047138753944792016-06-27T14:42:00.000+03:002016-06-27T14:42:01.092+03:00mixed media monday - brooch with lace and pearls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A trinket Monday this week! I enjoy making small mixed media jewelry - it provides a nice balance in between larger collages, which admittedly aren't that large, and satisfies my need to make items that are useful. Although I'm not sure jewelry can be regarded as useful, but it does serve a purpose nonetheless.<br />
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<i>(vintage wrist watch case, vintage photo, vintage lace, recycled leather, freshwater pearls, brooch pin, thread, glue)</i></div>
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<i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/449008332/mixed-media-brooch-with-vintage-photo" target="_blank">for sale in here</a></i></div>
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I wouldn't mind such a fine pair of shoes, but I would settle for some extra spring in my step this summer.Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-8229954411906399052016-06-25T14:55:00.000+03:002016-06-25T14:55:00.165+03:00accumulator seriali - part 20<div style="text-align: center;">
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I think I've mentioned having collected Victorian scraps in the early 1990's. I remember counting 700 pieces at one time, but I carried on collecting for a few more years, so I have no idea what the grand total would be now. But we all know, quantity does not equal quality. My maternal grandmother, however, had some amazing scraps in her friendship book from the 1920's! I would've fainted at the sight of these when I was at the top of my scrap enthusiasm.</div>
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These two books belonged to my grandmothers. The smaller one, from my namesake, is the one I'm showing you today. </div>
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My grandmother was born in 1916, so she was just nine when she got this book for Christmas. She then passed this book around and her little friends wrote in quotes and poems - more or less skillfully - and embellished the pages with scraps (and there's one tiny photo in there, too). </div>
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I won't go into translating any of the other quotes, but I want to mention the one above saying "Live and learn" - it's pretty strange and adorable coming from a girl most likely no more than 9-years-old.</div>
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Then there are the some scraps that are like from another world! Among all the flowers and angels there are some Danish (I think?) Disney scraps. I think one of my aunts added these in later, as the Donald Duck character was created in 1934 and the quotes in this book seem to date mostly from 1926.</div>
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This week I decided to focus on creating models of binding structures that are not part of my everyday repertoire. I have a bad habit of always selling the books I intend to keep as a part of my model library, so I took precautions and used paper I hate for the pages. Two birds with one stone: books that serve the model purpose perfectly, but are not something I'd sell because of the paper, and I get to use some of that big lot of slippery paper (unfortunately there aren't enough book structures in the world for me to ever run out of that paper by making models for myself).<br />
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My first two models are of a sewn board binding that's been on my to-do list forever. I'm not sure if my teachers knew about this structure at all when I was studying for my bookbinding degree, but I first saw it years after graduating. Now it seems to be everywhere! You can find several tutorials for it online, but just to name two, <a href="https://guildofbookworkers.org/sites/guildofbookworkers.org/files/standards/2013_KarenHanmer.pdf" target="_blank">here's an excellent one by Karen Hanmer</a>, and <a href="http://imgur.com/a/ZpERM" target="_blank">here's another one that has lots of photos</a>. I didn't follow any particular tutorial, but picked the features I liked best in what I'd read. In the future I think I'll tweak things some more, use more fillers to keep everything even more smooth and level, and little things like that.<br />
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Having <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/03/a-glimpse-into-my-studio.html" target="_blank">a good plough</a>, freshly greased and sharpened, is really useful in making sewn board books, but I see no reason why you couldn't make one without a plough. I usually really enjoy the look of torn pages on my books, but sewn board binding with its covers the same size as the pages looks especially good when everything is cut super neat.<br />
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I used brown recycled cardstock for the sewn covers and left it visible on the book I covered with old dictionary pages. In the full cloth book I covered the spine and the exposed parts of the cover board with soft teal coloured paper and I really like that little pop of contrast colour.<br />
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I think most good bookbinders have a look of their own that ties different types of books together regardless of the techniques used. I look forward to seeing what my 2016 caterpillar stitch looks like! I haven't done one since 2004 or 2005... Any suggestions what binding structures to tackle after I'm done with the caterpillar?<br />
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I hope you all have enjoyed the midsummer week so far. Our household won't be doing much to celebrate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Finland" target="_blank">Juhannus</a>
tomorrow and Saturday, but I expect some effort will be put into having
a few delicious meals even if the bonfire is missing. Whether or not we
go to sauna depends on how hot our home is to begin with - if it's
already hot inside, it doesn't really make any sense for us to heat a
room just for the sake of the tradition of going to sauna on the
midsummer eve. Do you have special midsummer traditions where you live? I'd love to hear about them!Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-90728294622735420662016-06-20T14:48:00.000+03:002016-07-04T14:06:56.775+03:00mixed media monday - you may hear the wind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Do not speak of meaning; you may hear the wind</i><br />
<i>But we will not communicate</i><br />
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Last week we had several days when I woke up to the sound of rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes near torrential. I spent all week home alone, so the sounds of water were a welcome company. I had planned to do a lot of writing and took the week off from making things by hand, but I ended up writing a little, folding papers a little, and relaxing a lot. Probably just what I needed after working hard all spring.<br />
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This Mixed Media Monday collage is something I worked on all night before launching my writing staycation. Sometimes I work the best very late at night, but it's not a good long term solution for obvious reasons. Still, I'm very much a night owl and I doubt that will ever change.<br />
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Can you spot all the people in this photo? For the longest time I only saw one! This blog photo is an enlarged version of the original, so it's not as hard to see the others.<br />
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I love map markings.<br />
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Domed metal findings are sewn through the top and bottom edges of the shallow box I made to house this collage. <br />
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<i>(vintage photo, cut up vintage text, vintage map, metal findings, thread, paper, board, glue)</i></div>
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<i>21x15,8x1,4cm / 8.3"x6.2"x0.6"</i><br />
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<i>[EDIT:<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/450537124/original-vintage-photo-mixed-media" target="_blank"> now available in my shop</a>] </i></div>
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Refreshed by the lazy week I hope to get a lot done this week. Maybe trying out some less used book structures would be a nice change to my bookbinding routines. What's your plan for the week?Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-7893266234140381112016-06-16T14:59:00.000+03:002016-06-16T14:59:01.910+03:00hardcover bullet journals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wow, bullet journals are super popular! I've never had this much traffic in my shop at this time of the year and 90% of that traffic has been because of the fabulously practical dotted grid pages. <br />
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These case bound books have 144 off-white pages with grey dots, so they
have double the pages the previous long stitch bullet journals have (hey, there are still a few of those kraft bullet journals left <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/293480933/long-stitch-bullet-journal-notebook-with" target="_blank">in the shop</a>!). These new books are <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/386202118/hardcover-bullet-journal-notebook-with" target="_blank">now available here</a>.Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-2469474202253160172016-06-13T14:58:00.000+03:002016-06-13T14:58:01.185+03:00mixed media monday - your favourite delight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes there are special moments when I'm putting together collages. With this piece almost every moment was special, and while I'm lacking words to describe it, I'll try: creating this piece was fun, easy and rewarding. Just the right amount of pondering and trying out different variations before everything fell into place. It's not often that it's hard for me to create a mixed media piece, but this one was remarkably easy from start to finish.<br />
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<i>(vintage photo, vintage packaging, cut up text from an old
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I couldn't possibly name my favourite delight - for a whiny person I have surprisingly many! I'm currently enjoying the view of dark clouds, sunshine and the shadows of flying seagulls on the building across the street.Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-77971950767601985632016-06-11T14:39:00.000+03:002016-06-11T14:39:00.510+03:00accumulator seriali - part 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two weeks ago I shared <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/05/accumulator-seriali-part-18.html" target="_blank">the other half</a> of this Latvian-American album. Today it's time to meet severe people, beautiful dresses, hats, and some swimsuits, too!<br />
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Beautiful embroidery along the neckline. Black and white photos create the illusion that people in the the b&w era mostly wore just black and white, but I like to imagine what colours these people wore. (She could be wearing dark emerald green! Who knows...)<br />
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I'm not sure if the neckline of the girl above is embroidered or made of floral fabric or ribbon, but I'd just love to see it in colour! The text appears to read Moscow and the year 1916, and something I can't read in between the two. My understanding of Cyrillic alphabet is pretty much limited to Mockba, and that photo corner is totally stuck, so I'm unable to peek under it to see more letters of the mystery word.<br />
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For a while I was a bit stuck, feeling like I no longer have anything interesting to share with you in this Accumulator Seriali series, but when I got round to really opening my eyes, digging around my drawers, and getting a special delivery from my family sorted, I'm pretty confident I'll never run out of delightful bits and bobs to write about! Oh the feeling when you open a small nondescript brown paper bag and out falls a handful of tiny floral glass buttons...Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-56545108381286224042016-06-09T14:50:00.000+03:002016-06-09T14:50:15.132+03:00coptic guest book with a gold spine & cracking spines<span id="goog_1736129988"></span><span id="goog_1736129989"></span><br />
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To balance out <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/search/label/bullet%20journal" target="_blank">the bullet journal frenzy</a> I've been on lately I finished a light purple linen guest book with a distressed gold spine and really pleasing proportions. I personally like the landscape format, especially for guest books - pages that are wider than they are tall stay open particularly well, and have a nice flow when leafing through the pages. Somehow the tactile experience of handling a book is even more enjoyable than it is with portrait format books.<br />
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Speaking about what it's like to handle a book: I've now repeatedly read how people find it pleasing to crack the spine of their new notebook, how it's one of their favourite sounds, etc. - but, listen to me people, the spines aren't supposed to crack! Cracking sounds mean there's something getting damaged there, and I don't believe it's a good thing that you need to damage your new book before you've even gotten to use it. Well made (=usually skillfully handmade) notebooks won't crack when you first open them - they just open. The spine is supposed to be flexible enough to handle the process of repeated opening and closing without cracking sounds and damage.<br />
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If you end up with a book that resists opening (either a notebook with a stiff spine, or pretty much any printed hardcover book you're about to read), please don't force it! Here's <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/16/how-to-open-a-new-book/" target="_blank">a detailed tutorial on how to open a new book</a> - it's worth a read if you want to extend the lifespan of your book.<br />
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With Coptic bound books and other books with non-adhesive bindings the spine is guaranteed to not cause any trouble. Here the spine is covered with gilt linen, so the stitching is further protected from wear without causing any problems with the opening of the book.</div>
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This week has been a busy one in my studio: many mixed media projects started and a big lot of different types of bullet journals are also in the making. I've gone through podcasts at a terrifying pace while working, so I welcome podcast recommendations in the comments section! My current podcast favourites include Radiolab, Modern Love, TED Radio Hour, This American Life and everything by Gimlet, but I also enjoy history, craft, and crime podcasts (separately, but I'd definitely be interested in anything that combined all three, too). Do you listen to podcasts? What should I go explore next?<i> </i></div>
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I'm going through an unusual creative surge thanks to a long to-do list full of things that have nothing to do with creating art or binding books. Nothing works like procrastination to get other things done!<br />
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We've had some gorgeous summer days here (and some cold days sprinkled
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shouldn't be sticky is sticky and glue dries way too fast. I try to
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Lots of cutting up of old books has taken place lately, as it's
something I can do even when I have just a moment of free time, and I've
been more than happy to stretch those moments for longer than
necessary. The cutting mode goes hand in hand with the ideation mode,
and now I have a selection of rearranged text excerpts / words waiting
to be paired with a collage idea. This is the first piece resulting from
this creative burst, and I instantly knew just the girl I wanted to
match with these words when they came off the pages. The photo is just
an inch wide and the whole collage is a bit larger than my palm. Good
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Thanks for stopping by for this Mixed Media Monday post! Have a creative week!<i><br /></i></div>
Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-28782109168056975532016-06-02T14:56:00.003+03:002016-06-02T14:56:53.098+03:00my long stitch bullet journal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KOfvFta4ZgjBckjPtxJOaQmZG2bTZF86dHq7c_WBDIOHmtqEnHnKRJa6wOKJAmIPuaD6H9Hg4nT6rkeKDqVwsrYV_H6ODYGWCdkI7yv3uTdeyNWa9tF_nTvZkDk4epRj7TkYfqNclGxf/s1600/bullet-journal-longstitch-paperiaarre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="my long stitch bullet journal - by Kaija Rantakari / paperiaarre.com" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KOfvFta4ZgjBckjPtxJOaQmZG2bTZF86dHq7c_WBDIOHmtqEnHnKRJa6wOKJAmIPuaD6H9Hg4nT6rkeKDqVwsrYV_H6ODYGWCdkI7yv3uTdeyNWa9tF_nTvZkDk4epRj7TkYfqNclGxf/s640/bullet-journal-longstitch-paperiaarre.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div>
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The biggest benefit of being a bookbinder is always getting exactly the right kind of notebook for your own needs. I'm definitely not an early adopter when it comes to <a href="http://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/blog/how-to-bullet-journal" target="_blank">bullet journals</a>, though I've made to-do lists in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Maybe this list making experience helped me quickly narrow down what kind of notebook would be ideal for bullet journal use after the flimsy notebook I'd bought from London filled up.<br />
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Plenty of pages - I usually avoid making heavy use long stitch journals with lots and lots of pages because during the time it takes for the pages to fill up the stitching on the spine can go through a bit too much. For those who wonder about the thread I use for long stitch bindings: it's the same thickness I use for all my books - I don't like to use thicker thread, because that would also require larger holes on the spine and using thicker signatures (bunches of folded pages) giving the book a bulkier look I don't enjoy, and the thick thread often shows signs of wear just as quickly. My bullet journal is most importantly a work journal, and as I work at home this doesn't get mangled in my bag on daily basis (I'm very kind to my books anyway). Because I don't need to take it anywhere from my desk, it also doesn't have to be featherweight, so having lots of pages is a perfectly good idea in this case.<br />
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Pretty cover lining - I don't usually use much patterned papers in my books, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them. The problem may be that I enjoy them a bit too much! I have a hoard of pretty papers stored under the couch in my studio. This particular paper is something I bought on my first grown-up trip to London in <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2008/12/london.html" target="_blank">2008</a> and have been holding on to ever since. It matched the blue-grey book cloth I used better than any other papers, so I thought, I can do this - it's a big sheet and using it for this book means slicing just a small piece from one corner. Maybe I'll use it again in 2024...<br />
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Pages - recycled brown paper that has a barely-there-grey dotted grid. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/293480933/long-stitch-bullet-journal-notebook-with" target="_blank">The books I sell in my shop</a>
have a 5mm grid, or two dots per cm. Mine has 2.5 dots per cm as my
handwriting can be quite tiny. I have a monthly spread and weekly
spreads with stamped dates for each month, and plenty of room for
ongoing lists, stats, and notes at the back of the book.<br />
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feeling a large portion of bullet journalists create daily pages, but I
just don't have the need to record that much of my life every day, so I
can create the spreads for a few months ahead of time and just add my
to-dos and meetings as I go. So my bullet journal is basically just a
self-made calendar making use of bullet point lists - very simple,
nothing fancy, but so much better than any calendar I've ever used. <br />
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Just the right amount of extras needed - There's no rule that bullet journaling has to be super colourful, full of cute stamped icons and uplifting quotes framed with washi tape, it can be just your pen and paper (my pen here is 005 <a href="http://www.pigmamicron.com/" target="_blank">Pigma Micron</a>, super super thin, but I also use a black <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/blog/pilot-frixion-erasable-pens-a-comprehensive-guide/pt/670" target="_blank">Frixion</a> pen). I personally don't have the time or the need to embellish the pages of my journal as I have this whole life full of other creative things to do, but I do enjoy getting crafty a bit, so I purchased a tiny calendar stamp set just for this purpose. Very minimalistic, but much nicer than my handwritten dates would be. <br />
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<br />That's all I need for a good bullet journal that suits my needs. Do you use a bullet journal or a self-made calendar? What's your ideal book for it like?Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-9713000969365209152016-05-30T14:33:00.000+03:002016-05-30T14:33:01.629+03:00mixed media monday - dark things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An idea for a large embroidered piece made with wax paper has haunted my mind for over a year now, but I can't seem to get started with it. This collage is an attempt for a warm-up of sorts.<br />
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After I complained about <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2014/12/9.html" target="_blank">the absence of wax paper in Finland</a>, a very kind reader sent some my way and made it possible for me to bring some of my ideas into reality. Thank you once more!<br />
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for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/384529930/original-vintage-photo-mixed-media" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Three layers of wax paper still give a translucent result, so the background has a big effect on the way the collage looks like. The above photos were taken on a black background, below on a white. <br />
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I can imagine this looking great on various coloured backgrounds, too. Maybe even with a patterned background? A piece of old wallpaper perhaps...Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-17111545097464338532016-05-28T15:00:00.000+03:002016-05-28T15:00:19.830+03:00accumulator seriali - part 18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a strange week - I have repeatedly found wonderful items I had totally forgotten! I found a big stash of beautiful old buttons, handfuls of antique lace, and this old album. It hasn't been that long since I received it, maybe less than a year even, but it arrived at a moment when there was tons of things to do and admire, so I just put it aside along with some old books and forgot all about it. On Tuesday I was tidying things up and had a wait-what's-this-have-i-seen-this-before moment. Well, this is a small album filled with photos, business cards as well as visiting cards, and I most likely have seen it before and thought I could possibly maybe use it in my mixed media projects. Today I'm sharing my favourite bits of the card section. The dates found in this album range from early 1920's to late 1940's and there's material from both the US and Latvia.<br />
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The album itself is bent and worn, but I really like that embossed cover paper. It reminds me of the black, embossed papers you sometimes find in old sewing needle packages, only this surface is a hundred times larger.<br />
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Charles Clever, unusual, has the most important place on the album pages. The internet led me to find out that Charles, and possibly many of the others featured here, had come from Latvia to Detroit after fleeing the Nazis. Charles Clever probably wasn't Charles Clever back home, though. <br />
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I must admire the wood grain minimalism of this visiting card. (This can also be seen as having that 2013 Etsy look, but I don't mind.)<br />
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A tiny embossed visiting card with an ear of rye. This one measures only 3x6,5cm / 1.2"x2.6".<br />
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With the help of Google Translate I found out this Latvian card from 1925 is an engagement announcement!<br />
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Charles Clever has many of his business cards in this album, so maybe this album once belonged to him or his family. All the photo corners are so tightly glued most cards are stuck with them, so I'm unable to take a good look of the reverse sides, but it looks like there's handwriting on some. Maybe one day I'll explore more and take everything apart. I try not to get too attached to these old albums so I can actually use them in my work and not become simply an archivist for abandoned family albums. Seems brutal, but it cannot be helped.Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-91108989386836918622016-05-26T14:38:00.000+03:002016-05-26T14:38:05.075+03:00fine binding vs. creating awesome journals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Musta kivi valkoisen päällä by César Vallejo, bound by me in 2008.</td></tr>
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Bookbinders come in many shapes and sizes and their work may differ much more than you'd expect. People working under the same title create most varying book shaped products. Today my focus is in making blank books that are a pleasure to use and easy to approach, but I could've chosen to do something quite different. This post is just as much about why I've chosen not to pursue a career in fine binding as it is about why I chose to create luxurious but useful journals and notebooks instead. The photos featured here are of fine bindings I've made along the way. I apologise in advance - this is going to be a long post.<br />
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First of all I think I need to explain the term fine binding: it refers to somewhat elaborately decorated and designed collectible bindings of books with content, often done in full leather. These bindings aren't usually known for structural experimentation or innovation (there are exceptions of course!), but the cover designs vary from traditional to outright kooky. You can take a look at my designer binding Pinterest boards <a href="https://fi.pinterest.com/paperiaarre/bookbinding-designer-bindings-i/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://fi.pinterest.com/paperiaarre/bookbinding-designer-bindings-ii/" target="_blank">here</a> if you feel like browsing hundreds and hundreds of spectacular fine bindings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras, bound by me in 2009.</td></tr>
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When I was first studying bookbinding I was already interested in historical
binding structures, or more specifically, the ways I could use them in
modern book design, but fine binding was pretty high up on my list of
interests. Fine binding was also the direction my teachers prodded me
towards, but there are many reasons I never took to creating fine
bindings after graduating. I've made a handful of fine bindings for
various competitions, done pretty well in them (I've gotten first and second prizes as well as honourable mentions), and that's about it, but I've just now decided to
take part in a Nordic bookbinding exhibition after years of fine binding
hiatus. Whether or not my book is up to par and gets in the exhibition
remains to be seen. <br />
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I'm still not planning on taking up fine binding on a regular basis;
this is more of a personal hobby project where I get to enjoy the
process and techniques so different from my usual work while still
working in a book medium. I'm slightly dreading this commitment, but I need to see if I can still do this after all this time. In the past I've shared the process of making
some competition books and I suppose I'll eventually do the same with
this exhibition book (the deadline is in about a year from now, so I
won't be sharing fine binding work next week, sorry!). You can find the blog posts
about the earlier competition books <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/search/label/yann" target="_blank">here (Duras)</a>, <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/search/label/vallejo" target="_blank">here (Vallejo)</a>, <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/search/label/otava" target="_blank">here (Pyhät kuvat kalliossa)</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paperiaarre/sets/72157603880205968/" target="_blank">here (Pyhät kuvat kalliossa process photos on Flickr)</a>.<br />
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I greatly enjoy the slowness of making a fine binding and all the things
you can create with leather you cannot with linen. I appreciate the
tradition and I admire many talented fine binders (<a href="http://estudiorebora.com.ar/" target="_blank">Sol Rebora</a> and <a href="http://www.songhaein.com/" target="_blank">Haein Song</a>
to name two), but all the effort and financial investment creating a
fine binding requires is intimidating to me. Good quality bookbinding
leather is expensive compared to the materials I normally use and it
somewhat damps my eagerness to get experimental with techniques and
designs, so I often choose to create something safe, and safe quickly
becomes boring.<br />
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I'm also terrified of picking out a book to bind, and even more so of committing to a cover design. Designing covers for a fine binding means I need to draw - two dimensional work is like another world to me: I'm great at building stuff, sculpting, pleating, etc., but I haven't found a way to design leather work in a way that would allow me to see it in my minds eye as well as I see my collages and other designs. This is probably due to lack of practise, but just the thought of drawing a cover design makes me flinch even when it's basically technical drawing, not artistic work.<br />
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While I often work non-stop for hours with no sense of
time, I feel I'm a better person when I work on books that get finished
over a relatively short period of time. Creating a fine binding can
easily take weeks just because there's like a thousand steps where
something needs to dry overnight or spend time in press. Finishing a
book gives me that uplifting sense of accomplishment that finishing one
step out of hundred simply can't give, so making simpler notebooks gives me a
greater reward even though the creative process isn't as demanding. I like demanding, don't get me wrong, but perhaps I lack the patience to commit to such long projects all the time.<br />
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If I had chosen to focus more on fine binding, my customers would also be
very different from the ones I have today. I love my customers (now more than ever)! Fine
binding is design that has very little effect on most peoples
lives, but awesome journals and notebooks are items that can bring joy
to just about anyone in their daily life.<br />
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Unsurprisingly, I find it more motivating to
make books for people I can relate to. And I just don't see myself ever
affording a designer binding (usually selling in the range of hundreds or
thousands of Euros), nor would I even know how to really
appreciate owning one. My love for books is much more practical -
books are for reading or writing. Beautiful books that are pleasant to
handle are a true delight to me, but rare books and first editions etc.
are not items I'd like to own, and people who do seem to speak a
language quite foreign to me. I'm not a collector of things you
shouldn't touch. I'll gladly admire them at museums and
libraries, and look at photos of them online, but I like to be
surrounded by items that invite me to actually use them instead of just
admiring them from a safe distance. I want my books to be used and handled, not placed in a private library and only rarely taken out only to be carefully examined by a few trusted individuals. <br />
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To sum up: I prefer to make things that are useful. I prefer customers I can relate to. I prefer to make books people can afford. I find the commitment a fine binding requires pretty darn intimidating. I appreciate the design work even the simplest notebook requires. Design is everywhere, it's not just in the embellishments you add to the cover of your book or in the expensiveness of materials used, it is the book itself! All the materials, proportions, structures... it's all design. For years I had this gnawing sense of guilt for not making better use of my education by focusing on fine binding that requires a skill set unavailable to most self-taught bookbinders and would somehow be grander and more admirable than binding notebooks and journals for charming creative human beings is. <br />
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Notebooks are at the beginning of their journey when they leave my hands - they are miles away from being finished and done, and I truly love to be in the position where I get to imagine all the things they will once be filled with. Selling affordable and practical books allows me to interact with a much larger customer base and that interaction brings<i> so. much. joy.</i> to my everyday life. I love browsing your Instagram photos and Pinterest interests, and catch glimpses of your life knowing that maybe these moments I catch are also being recorded in my books in one form or another. Pretty self-centred approach to social media, huh? In reality I peruse your photos with no hidden agenda, but I do think about these things every now and then. Still, mostly I think about you. You're awesome. Thanks for making me not feel guilty about not doing the most luxurious fine bindings on Earth. Thanks for making me feel I'm alright and my books are even more alright.Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-81042752711433010362016-05-23T14:26:00.000+03:002016-05-23T14:26:15.295+03:00mixed media monday - saima revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A bit of a flashback today. I made this mixed media piece way back in <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2009/08/saima-of-my-dreams-this-is-beginning-of.html" target="_blank">2009</a> using old photos of my great grandaunt <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/search/label/saima" target="_blank">Saima</a> and gorgeous antique handkerchiefs and handkerchief lace. Above you can see young Saima in a cabinet photo taken in a real studio - all other photos I have of her have been taken by her amateur photographer husband. So far this is the only art project I've made using family photos! Mostly it's because I'm so intrigued by strangers and I have no fear of pairing those photos of people with unknown histories with bits and pieces that are in conflict with their true stories and personalities, but also because I have no room for more art on my own walls and I'd hate to send pieces of my family away to strangers.<br />
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These photos of Saima were taken by <a href="http://emilsalbum.blogspot.fi/" target="_blank">Emil</a>, her husband. The photo of Saima with the adorable puppy was most likely taken at her little brother's graduation party, which makes me think these must have been taken before 1920's or very early 1920's. <br />
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The silk handkerchief has rotted into quarters along its folds, but the lace is still as good as new.<br />
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Floral glass buttons, and another silk handkerchief, tied with embroidered silk ribbon onto a cotton handkerchief centre that was probably supposed to go with the larger of the two handkerchief lace. Many unfinished items have passed through several generations. Once in a blue moon I hear of my <a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">mother</a> finishing some family heirloom project, but mostly we both try to focus on finishing our own, less dainty and more practical projects (and sometimes we fail and produce our own unfinished objects for future generations). Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-13882952175757428292016-05-19T15:02:00.000+03:002016-05-19T15:02:06.834+03:00coptic bound guest book with vintage lace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A long time ago I made many wedding guest books accompanied by drawstring bags to keep all the greeting cards, loose photos and other ephemera safe with the guest book. Then I almost forgot the whole thing, even though those books always sold really quickly! I felt needed a break from wedding guest books and began making other types of books thinking I'd get back to these later, but then some kind of time distortion struck me and suddenly half a decade was gone. And here I am, still thinking it was only a few months ago that I made those nifty guest books with those great linen bags...<br />
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My recent <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/05/long-stitch-bullet-journals-with-cloth.html" target="_blank">bullet journals</a> reminded me of making bags for guest books too, so here I am, at last, proudly presenting a bright white wedding guest book with vintage lace and a drawstring bag. The bag is made of a soft lighter weight linen whereas the book is covered with the usual, more hardwearing type of linen I mostly use on my books.<br />
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The book has 64 pages of thick white drawing paper and it measures 21,7x15,4x2,2cm / 8.5"x6.1"x0.9". The drawstring bag measures 22x35cm / 8.7"x13.8". And thanks to the Coptic binding the book opens and stays completely flat, but I guess you already knew that (I feel like I've written more about my books opening flat than I've written about anything else - sorry!). <br /><br />
You can find this book for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/280805914/medium-size-coptic-bound-wedding-guest" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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While watching every stage of Giro d'Italia on tv I've been sewing a huge summer quilt for our bed. Only a few more stage's worth of sewing left on the quilt top, max, so I hope to get to tying the quilt before the race ends (the quilt's too big for me to machine quilt on my tiny sewing machine and I'm not going to send it away to be quilted, so tying it is!). Working on the quilt daily has slowed down other sections of the craft department, but I'm still working on new books and my own bullet journal (still haven't decided the colour!).<br />
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Almost time for today's Giro stage and my hours at the sewing machine, so I must go, but I'll leave you with a close up of the beautiful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battenberg_lace" target="_blank">Battenberg lace</a>.<br />
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This tinted photo of a woman has been a part of my vintage photo collection for a while. I haven't been able to decide if she's wearing a leopard pattern, or if it's just some floral pattern instead, but in my mind I've always thought of her as the leopard lady. <br />
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Signs of deterioration keep fascinating me - the marks of photo corners and old tape adhesive left on the piece of book cover I used in the background. Deterioration makes the passing of time visible. <br />
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Is there a sound you would describe as the very sound of beauty? Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-13909692179528827682016-05-14T14:58:00.000+03:002016-05-14T14:58:07.489+03:00accumulator seriali - part 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm a very lucky person to have a special friend across the sea sending me all sorts of breathtaking treasures every once in a while. In one of her packages was this adorable set of two old Dennison's jointed paper dolls, five dresses and a small, unopened package of <i>Dennison's Assorted Colored Buttons For Doll's Dresses - a very pretty trimming</i>. <br />
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Very pretty trimmings seem to be the key to creating very pretty dresses
for paper dolls! Three of the dresses have details made from paper
doilies, and there are buckles and buttons there as well. One dress
appears to be printed on crepe paper (perhaps this one came with the
dolls), but the others seem to be handcrafted from various types of
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I would've adored these dolls as a child and made them tons of more dresses. I don't remember playing with paper dolls much as a child, but I remember enjoying the part where you cut out the doll and its clothes much more than the imaginary play part. One case of severe paper doll envy took place: the neighbour girl had a wonderful paper doll of Ariel, the Little Mermaid, and I tried to replicate it at home. I can't remember how successful my attempt was, but I'm sure I put quite a bit of effort in it!<br />
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Paper dolls are something I knew very little about, so I did some online searches and I'm now happy to leave you with<a href="http://www.wilsonmuseum.org/bulletins/spring2007.html" target="_blank"> a nice, long article about the history of paper dolls</a>, should you, too, be interested in some self education.<br />
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I find myself in a situation where I need to make more room for writing my second book of poems, so this Accumulator Seriali series won't be happening weekly anymore - sorry! I've yet to decide on the new routine, but it'll either be bi-weekly or monthly, depending on how much time writing wants to steal from my other projects. I hope to keep up with my bookbinding and art posts as usual, so, fear not, I'm not disappearing!<br />
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As promised, new bullet journals with cloth covers and drawstring bags! I picked eight of my favourite book cloths and linen fabrics to match them. I'm very fond of the soft herringbone linen (featured here in blue and light brown), but it's a nightmare to use on book covers, so I'm glad I got to use it on these drawstring bags. The other bags are in solid colours with various textures.<br />
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The best thing about making books in lots is that they create pleasing stacks. There are naturally other benefits, but I'm really loving these stacks...<br />
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This whole lot is available for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/293480933/long-stitch-bullet-journal-notebook-with" target="_blank">in my shop</a>.<br />
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The grid dots aren't even visible in this photo! They're really so light they hide in the recycled paper unless you're looking for them. Here's proof there are dots there:<br />
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While I was making these my printer decided to stop working and entered the loop of eternal false paper jams with no paper in sight. Never fun, but this time things got so bad I ended up ordering a new printer altogether. The new one should print special papers (=thicker materials) up to size A3, so I should probably start imagining new bookish things to print! I generally avoid creating artists' books as they're a bit scary to make - lots of emotional investment and things that go so far beyond the technical aspect of things - but maybe I should try to be brave later this year. Right now I'm too tired for any type of bravery as the pollen season is sucking the life out of me. This spring wasn't supposed to be a rough one, but I'm currently in a disagreement with the forecast. I hope it's easy to breathe wherever you are, and if not, I hope your tissues are of the softest kind!Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-9006297895405261172016-05-09T15:07:00.000+03:002016-05-09T15:07:06.622+03:00DIY: folded envelopes <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/04/diy-mixed-paper-envelopes.html" target="_blank">my first envelope tutorial</a> I got requests for another one on how to make a folded envelope, and this is it! For my envelopes I used old book pages fused with tissue paper using the technique explained in my previous <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/04/diy-mixed-paper-envelopes.html" target="_blank">mixed paper envelope tutorial</a>, but you can use pretty much whatever paper you have on hand as long as it folds with ease.<br />
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This envelope style is super simple, but it lends itself to many variations. I often make a test version (or five) using waste paper if I'm working with a non-standard size or different angles and I have something very specific in mind. The wrapper of <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/02/wedding-post-at-last.html" target="_blank">our wedding invitation</a> was folded from a fairly long rectangle, and I have to say it took me a while to figure out the measurements for it. For a painless first try at making a folded envelope, stick to standard size paper, but after that - just go and experiment to your heart's content! <br />
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What you need to make your own folded envelope</h3>
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<li>pretty paper that's easy to fold (mine measures 30,8x23cm / 12.1"x9.1", but both A4 and US Letter are just fine) </li>
<li>waste paper (for trying everything out before you go and crease your fancy paper)</li>
<li>a card you want to send in the envelope (I'm using the card as a folding guide, too, but it's actually totally optional, you can write a letter on the reverse side of the envelope paper and send it on its own)</li>
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<li>pencil</li>
<li>ruler</li>
<li>washi tape (or stickers, a wax seal, or whatever you want to use for sealing your envelope)</li>
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1. Mark lengthwise centre point. If the paper you're using has a right side and a wrong side, make the mark on the wrong side.<br />
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2. Place the postcard along the long edge right next to the centre point mark. This will serve as a straight edge and help you fold a neat 45 degree fold. <br />
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3. Fold right bottom corner. The right half of the bottom edge meets the edge of the postcard resulting in a neat 45 degree fold. (For the envelope with a wax seal, featured in the first two photos, I made my folds at a 50 degree angle -
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4. Place your postcard inside the fold.<br />
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5. Fold the opposite corner down along the top edge of your postcard. This way you ensure your envelope matches the size of your postcard perfectly. You can now set the postcard aside for the next step.<br />
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6. Fold one flap. In my example envelope this will be the topmost flap of the finished envelope. You'll want to make the fold at least 5 millimetres away from where the shorter side flap fold ends. This gives the flaps a good overlap.<br />
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7. Unfold the last flap fold and place your postcard against the fold as pictured. Fold the opposite flap along the edge of your postcard.<br />
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8. The bottom flap usually extends beyond your postcard / the fold of the top flap, so fold under the excess. (You can also use this long flap as the top flap so that it simply extends to the other side of the envelope, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkezekEW_Em9Kg6lpuHjOnOk6Qd_QYZKKLjfEvR9F5Pn9ozoBqghk-Hlu4TgZttZ2rax_QctQHQBL1US9kE_6w8AZFiOJXEG-tHOMIAOcXN448SapdNjfzYg2SJ5VWj6KlSCk7Sln3LGK/s640/paperiaarre-wedding-invite.JPG" target="_blank">like it does in our wedding invite</a>)<br />
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9. Open all folds and put your postcard / letter inside. Fold in flaps and seal with a bit of washi tape. <b> </b><br />
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Super simple, like I said! Again, I'd love to see how your envelope turned out! You can drop me a line (and a photo!) via <a href="mailto:paperiaarre@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a>, or share a photo on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/paperiaarrediy/" target="_blank">#paperiaarrediy</a> (my envelopes are <u>still</u> lonely!) and tagging me <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paperiaarre/" target="_blank">@paperiaarre</a> <br />
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PPS. The lovely lady featured in my postcards is none other than the multitalented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Jansson" target="_blank">Tove Jansson</a>, perhaps best known as the creator of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin" target="_blank">the Moomins</a>. Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-83115943605365334042016-05-07T15:00:00.000+03:002016-05-07T15:15:02.772+03:00accumulator seriali - part 16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Saturday you're getting a double dose of vintage puzzles. My mother is writing about her vintage puzzle collection in her blog, <a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.fi/2016/05/accumulator-seriali-spinoff-series.html" target="_blank">Kotkarankki</a>. My collection is really just the result of some of her collection migrating North. I'll let my mother tell you more about the history of these puzzles. All these puzzles were originally my grandmother's, and they have the most tedious puzzle pieces on Earth.<br />
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The person making this little kitchen maid puzzle must have looked for the blackest painting available, and the pieces seem to follow the logic that the two pieces that look like the least likely match are a match. The puzzle has only 160 pieces, but it still takes a ridiculously long time to finish even for someone who finishes 1000-piece-puzzles in a day or two (three max, if I practice self control).<br />
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Lots of lovely old boxes were reused for puzzles, but the brown paper one is actually an original puzzle box, so no hope of ever finding a helpful illustration on the cover of the box.<br />
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This puzzle was apparently amazingly wonderful as there are two of these, now appropriately one for me and one for my mother.<br />
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A few years ago my mother built a bunch of puzzles, took photos, and printed them to be folded inside the boxes. These puzzles are hard enough even with the photos. The boxes usually include a handwritten name, the number of pieces, and a note of whether or not all pieces are present. The Swimmer has had all 163 pieces in January 1984 (when I was still in my mother's belly), in November 1990, and they're still here in May 2016. Good job, grandmother, mother and me!<br />
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As a child this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselle" target="_blank">Giselle</a> puzzle was my favourite. I was definitely going through a phase then where tragic love stories and gorgeous dresses were a thing. Oh wait, it wasn't a phase, they still are!<br />
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This is a rare bird as it has that big illustrated box, but the pieces are still those wiggly difficult ones. Giselle is also a bit larger than the others, and the pieces are of better quality wood (some of the other ones are actually depression era cardboard). Fancy things come from England - the others, I believe, were made in Finland.<br />
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I planned to take a photo of my modern puzzle collection to accompany these puzzles, but came to the conclusion it is not healthy to own that many puzzles and decided not to share that dark side of me.Kaijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17716083308836453210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055505059211882220.post-63403833397009682562016-05-05T14:55:00.000+03:002016-05-05T14:55:11.279+03:00minimalistic wedding photo albums<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Albums are perhaps the item I get most requests for, yet I hardly ever make any. I really don't like making post or stab bound albums, and for the longest time high shipping costs for thick books like albums were a problem. Now all shipping is expensive, so I figured why not make some albums for a change. I'm on a long stitch spree and long stitch albums you get!<br />
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You wouldn't have noticed by reading this blog, but I secretly have quite a selection of book cloth. As I'm fairly obsessed with using linen fabric, I hardly ever use book cloth for books - it's more of a box making material for me - but long stitch bindings are
worth making an exception for. Linen fabric is often so textured the stitches on the spine wouldn't stand out on it as beautifully as they do with smooth book cloth, so there's a purpose and a place for all sorts of materials.<br />
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Each album can hold up to 32 or 64 photos depending on whether or not you use both sides of the page, and of course on what size and shape your photos are (you can fit plenty more of Fujifilm Instax Mini photos in there!). The spine is wide enough to accommodate quite a stack of photos without the album bulging in an unsightly manner. The extra width of the spine also makes these books great for creating art journals and artists' books containing bulky collages and other mixed media creations done in dry-ish media.<br />
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There are 64 pages of thick off-white drawing paper (acid free, 150gsm). The pages measure 21,5x15cm / 8.5"x5.9" and the outside measurements are 22x15,4x3,2cm / 8.7"x6.1"x1.3". <br />
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Inside covers are lined with this beautiful white handmade paper that has a lace grid texture. I used this paper on <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/03/coptic-bound-books-with-distressed-gold.html" target="_blank">the white gold spine Coptics</a> as well, and I'm honestly falling in love with it.<br />
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You can now find these albums for sale in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/279099992/minimalistic-white-long-stitch-wedding" target="_blank">my shop</a>. I've just sold out of <a href="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.fi/2016/04/new-long-stitch-bullet-journals.html" target="_blank">the dotted grid bullet journals</a>, but I hope to have some new ones available next week. I'll probably make the new lot with book cloth covers now that I've gotten the book cloth out of storage and found that some colours pair beautifully with linen I could use for the drawstring pouches.</div>
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