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the beauty of antique photo
Sometimes I love the print on the back of an antique studio portait as much as I love the photograph itself. This one is so incredibly beautiful! For a while I wasn’t reinforcing the images on a...
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Repair- The French Pastry Book- Part One
A previous repair client recently came to me with this beautiful little pastry book in need of some help. The book came from his father who used it in the 40′s while learning to become a pastry chef....
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Repair- The French Pastry Book- Part Two
Now that I have the end papers all flattened and ready to go, I’m going to re-attach those pages that fell off when I removed the end papers, reshape the textblock in a press, pop on some fancy...
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Awl- ing everything
Poking holes into 85 books…. Always takes longer than I think. Next- sewing 85 books… joy!
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craft show micromanaging
With the Halifax Crafters Christmas market a month (give or take) away, I am only just starting to freak out… I am sure a much more profound and severe freak out is on the horizon. I’ve now done a few...
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Time-Lapse Book Making/ studio noise #2
I forgot that I had started a video book making project when my partner and I first got to Toronto back in December. I wanted something that I could edit a bit more but I wasn’t really in the position...
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DIY Book Kit Tutorial
I’ve been wanting to do this post for a while now- Just in case the directions are not crystal clear in the DIY Book Kit or, if you don’t have a kit, were thinking about picking one up and you want to...
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new custom work
I’ve had the opportunity to work on some pretty fantastic custom books in the past few months. Wedding guest books and photo albums have been picking up big time which has been really great because I...
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i can be pretty unobservant….
Gah! I made a pretty silly mistake on the workshop poster… The date is wrong… Well, wrong in the sense that Thursday the 21st of Feb. in the year 2014 does not exist…. it is supposed to say FRIDAY the...
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Fat leather sketchbooks and upcoming show news
I had a lovely gal from BC ask me to make her a custom leather sketchbook recently, one very similar to the one I made for local Nova Scoria artist Daina Scarola for her Painted Road Project. I really...
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new things debuting this weekend- pt.1
Just in time for wedding season, I’ll have a slew of beautiful handmade guest books and photo albums to choose from at the NSDCC Summer Show this weekend. Here are a few sneak peeks:
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New space, new sketchbooks
Last week, my partner and I decided that it was time our bedroom got a little bigger. We’re expecting a third soon enough and figuring that we’d probably want optimum cuddle space, we decided to switch...
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