I’ve been pretty quiet lately! That was because I was in a race against time having fun seeing if I could meet an arbitrary challenge testing my bookbinding speedrunning abilities. In like, December, I made a remark about how it would be neat to challenge myself to like, NaNo, but for crafts, a month where I tried to see if i could average more than a book a day. Then some of the mad lads at @renegadepublishing ran with my offhand remark and made a whole fun community event out of it! The presentation on hidden fore edge paintings was part of this, and other presenters gsve fascinsting talks od their own as well. And also they named the book-a-day tier after me, so i was honor-bound to complete it sffhfjnf
So! This is the very tail end of binderary for me, and I’ve come in at a beautifully round 30 books for the month. Collecting text, typesetting, everything, it all happened in February. More pictures will be forthcoming, I just need to look through my camera roll and see if they’re all usable, group by author/theme, etc. Spread them out a little, probably. Get a group shot with everything (except the necklace book, alas, that’s already been given away). The month culminated with me making cases for 17 books yesterday and casing them all in, so I am VERY tired right now and need to stagger to bed, but I am really, really proud of myself right now
And additionally! As I was basking, I went back into my tumblr to check on when this hobby entered my life, and surprise surprise, this marks the exact one year anniversary of my first tagged bookbinding post. I’ve come a WAYS, and I absolutely love it! My tracking spreadsheet is out of date, and I think I last updated it on the laptop that just died, lmao, but this puts me somewhere slightly north of 130 books in the last year. Guys, I’m really, really proud of myself right now :D
Almost done catching up with those binderary posts! Here we’ve got some more blackkat, not super miniature books, but cute little ones. I’m honestly in love with the size/thickness balance here, and the emperor cody fic will live in my heart rent-free forever, so I’ll EXTREMELY pleased with how these turned out. I definitely flirted with flying too close to the sun for these skinny little art deco letters (even moreso with the art nouveau ones further down the page), but the effect is just so chefkiss that it’s hard to resist, haha
I’ve been pretty quiet lately! That was because I was in a race against time having fun seeing if I could meet an arbitrary challenge testing my bookbinding speedrunning abilities. In like, December, I made a remark about how it would be neat to challenge myself to like, NaNo, but for crafts, a month where I tried to see if i could average more than a book a day. Then some of the mad lads at @renegadepublishing ran with my offhand remark and made a whole fun community event out of it! The presentation on hidden fore edge paintings was part of this, and other presenters gsve fascinsting talks od their own as well. And also they named the book-a-day tier after me, so i was honor-bound to complete it sffhfjnf
So! This is the very tail end of binderary for me, and I’ve come in at a beautifully round 30 books for the month. Collecting text, typesetting, everything, it all happened in February. More pictures will be forthcoming, I just need to look through my camera roll and see if they’re all usable, group by author/theme, etc. Spread them out a little, probably. Get a group shot with everything (except the necklace book, alas, that’s already been given away). The month culminated with me making cases for 17 books yesterday and casing them all in, so I am VERY tired right now and need to stagger to bed, but I am really, really proud of myself right now
And additionally! As I was basking, I went back into my tumblr to check on when this hobby entered my life, and surprise surprise, this marks the exact one year anniversary of my first tagged bookbinding post. I’ve come a WAYS, and I absolutely love it! My tracking spreadsheet is out of date, and I think I last updated it on the laptop that just died, lmao, but this puts me somewhere slightly north of 130 books in the last year. Guys, I’m really, really proud of myself right now :D
