imagine

i love pawing through my supplies, because i always find things...great things...that i'd forgotten that i had.  i bought this paper a few years ago, and of course hoarded it because i love it.  but in keeping with my "goals for 2009", it's time to reduce that ever-growing mountain of scrapbook paper by using it...and i have a long way to go!

p.s.  the paper used to make this book was designed by artist and calligrapher teri martin.  click on the image for a larger view.

black and white

here's another book with a quarter binding that i made using some black and white floral fabric, and black leather for the spine.  i had no book anxiety this time, mostly thanks to the wonderful feedback from my sweet blogger buddies tess and michelle...i SO appreciate your encouragement!  and tess, thanks for sharing your momma's wisdom...she's right when she says, "Any slight flaw makes the item unique, It's only a flaw if you allow it to be."  it's so true!!

so, i think that this book might make its way into Santa's bag this year (and that's all i'm going to say for now, i don't want to give away any secrets!).  i'm finally done with making gifts...now it's time to do some baking and wrapping...two of my favorite things!

book anxiety

i have such a soft spot for anything classic, so when i spied this houndstooth fabric in the store, i just had to have it.  i thought it would be perfect for this book, which was bound using a "quarter binding" (it's called a quarter binding because one quarter of the cover is bound using bookcloth...except for this book i used black leather).  this is my first quarter binding and i love the way it looks...except for one major thing.  

when i finished binding the book, i noticed that the fabric seems to be crooked just at the top and bottom.  if you look at the front edge of the book, and where the leather meets the fabric, the pattern of the fabric is straight.  if the sides are straight, how then can the pattern be crooked at the top and bottom?!  do you think it was just printed that way?   do things like this really bother you too, or is my type-A personality just rearing its ugly head?  the irony of it is that i really like the book...it's just that now my eye goes straight to the crookedness of the fabric every time i look at it!  well, i'll wait to hear your opinion before i judge it any further...please let me know what you think about this!