So I didn't grow a 'stache' for Movember this year...I figured why try!!! But there were some things I did try, like making some rolled paper beads for my books. I have made paper beads before, but not from this type of paper. I had purchased some very pretty mulberry paper in huge sheets a couple of months ago, and eventually found time to try making something from it. (Not to mention I thought the paper would make a spectacular liner page for my book cover.) I had purchased four or five colorful sheets and this one just happened to catch my eye this morning, and it seemed to blend in with the rust (hmmm, don't know if I go with that name) Lumiere paint I had used on some upcycled book boards.
After painting the covers on both sides, I lined the inside with some torn bits of the mulberry paper and then proceeded to make a focal piece for the front of the book. Actually, it's just some shards of textured polymer with a button in the middle that I will be sewing onto the cover through the holes when everything is complete. The unfinished covers will be bound in the Coptic style (what else) and adorning the spine will be a few scrap beads along with two of the rolled paper beads that I bedecked with some wire, ribbon and a few glassbeads. I hope it all comes together well. I will be using a co-ordinating color of waxed binding cord and it should be good as I've used that color before with the brown-coppery tones of the book.
Unfortunately, the colors are not the same as they are in real time. I am finding that the settings of my all in one printer-scanner (the one I bought to accompany my laptop) will have to be adjusted, but I haven't the time to play with that now. Also, the quality of the scan is not as precise as the other scanner that I use with the big computer. This does present other problems as well. The other day, I had sent a sample scan of some light switch plates I was making for a gal, and after I compared the actual colors to the printed scan, they were significantly different. Even different from the picture on the computer screen. So I had to do some quick clay blending and come up with a batc/blend of colors that was sort of in between the color of the scan and the actual sample. I hope the colors I made are okay.
So now with this busy month almost over, and only one more sales event (tomorrow), I can finish the remainder of my custom orders and start getting my own year end preparations ready. December will be another busy month. But then, that's the way. uh huh, uh huh, I like it.
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