bookbinding, etc
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ehydeThe local bubble tea shop's seasonal offering is green tea with honey, ginger, and citron, and when I ordered it last week I missed the part of the description saying it was a "seasonal hot tea" and ordered it iced. I liked it enough that I wanted to try it as intended, so today I ordered it hot, and I think I like it better iced. I hope it stays on the menu for a while!
6yo has been sick this week so I haven't done as much as I'd wanted to, but we did still manage to pick up a dresser I found on craigslist--a kids' wooden dresser that the previous owner had painted purple, teal, and what I thought in the picture was brown but turned out to be a dark green. It has greenish-purple crystal knobs, too. It's a welcome change from furniture painted gray, and 6yo loves it.
I'm finishing up my exchange bookbinding project and the Christmas present for my dad--which isn't going to be finished by Christmas but his birthday is 2 weeks after so I can give it to him for that. After that I have three commissions to finish. And I'm realizing that--while I don't dislike any of these projects (in fact I like them a lot, and am pretty excited about putting my design ideas into practice), I work so slowly that if I keep doing exchanges and commissions and gifts, I'm never going to have time to bind the books I want to make for me. So, this may be my last year doing the exchange, and I probably won't be taking on more commissions for a while.
Next year 2yo will be 3yo and will start preschool, and I will theoretically have a lot more time on my hands, so we'll see, maybe I'll change my mind about the exchange when we get to that point.
And what do I want to make for me? Scrolling book! One of my friends remixed a short threadfic of mine into a really cool comic (cw gore, body horror), and my first thought was: how do I make a print edition of this? But it's a vertical comic, so something normal with turning pages won't work. So I have plans to make a scroll mechanism built into a box that looks like a book (and have had these plans for months. Sigh).
I also want to bind my own copy of MDZS--and I know this might be controversial, but wanting a physical copy was one of my initial reasons for wanting to learn bookbinding, back before the Seven Seas release was even announced. I put that on hold once news of the official release came out, but actually, I think it's something I still want to do. There are some other cnovel translations that haven't gotten official releases that I'd like to bind personal copies of, too.
6yo has been sick this week so I haven't done as much as I'd wanted to, but we did still manage to pick up a dresser I found on craigslist--a kids' wooden dresser that the previous owner had painted purple, teal, and what I thought in the picture was brown but turned out to be a dark green. It has greenish-purple crystal knobs, too. It's a welcome change from furniture painted gray, and 6yo loves it.
I'm finishing up my exchange bookbinding project and the Christmas present for my dad--which isn't going to be finished by Christmas but his birthday is 2 weeks after so I can give it to him for that. After that I have three commissions to finish. And I'm realizing that--while I don't dislike any of these projects (in fact I like them a lot, and am pretty excited about putting my design ideas into practice), I work so slowly that if I keep doing exchanges and commissions and gifts, I'm never going to have time to bind the books I want to make for me. So, this may be my last year doing the exchange, and I probably won't be taking on more commissions for a while.
Next year 2yo will be 3yo and will start preschool, and I will theoretically have a lot more time on my hands, so we'll see, maybe I'll change my mind about the exchange when we get to that point.
And what do I want to make for me? Scrolling book! One of my friends remixed a short threadfic of mine into a really cool comic (cw gore, body horror), and my first thought was: how do I make a print edition of this? But it's a vertical comic, so something normal with turning pages won't work. So I have plans to make a scroll mechanism built into a box that looks like a book (and have had these plans for months. Sigh).
I also want to bind my own copy of MDZS--and I know this might be controversial, but wanting a physical copy was one of my initial reasons for wanting to learn bookbinding, back before the Seven Seas release was even announced. I put that on hold once news of the official release came out, but actually, I think it's something I still want to do. There are some other cnovel translations that haven't gotten official releases that I'd like to bind personal copies of, too.
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Date: 2022-12-27 10:38 am (UTC)OMG yeah, those old bathroom tiles! XD When I scroll through house listings just for fun, there often are bathrooms whith 70s tiles - sometimes, those are really cool, kind of (there once was one in royal blue with some accent tiles in other colours, that was dark but also relaly stylish), but often they have this weird orange-beige or muddy green colour where I'm immediately like, "Get that away from me!" XD My grandma has a very light green in her bathroom upstairs, that's okay.
Full woodpanels aren't my favourite, either, but they can be interesting or give the room a certain charm. Colourful curtains are always great!