Welcome to part 2 (if you haven’t read part 1 you can read it here) where I show you a look at my second entry for the Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild’s Kindred Spirits Exhibition! To learn more about the exhibition visit their website here. It was my second entry that I had serious… Continue reading Behind the Scenes: The Making of My Kindred Spirit Submissions (part 2)
At the end of last year I decided to put myself forward and register two submissions for the Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild‘s exhibition: Kindred Spirits. Then I had two unexpected surgeries (October was appendicitis and November was my gallbladder) and then I was teaching from January to April, which meant suddenly I was… Continue reading Behind the Scenes: The Making of My Kindred Spirit Submissions (part 1)
Earlier this year I took my last core course for the CBBAG completion certificate! As always, I thought I’d share with you how it went and what I learned. I know it’s been a long time since I posted, things have been very busy but going well! I hope to get more posts in now… Continue reading Leather bindings – Repair & Restoration
This blog post has been a long time in the making! I consulted several different articles, my bookbinding teacher, and the archival classes that I took during my MLIS degree. It’s not a strict guide, but I’d like to think it’s a good guide and has some decent advice and a lot of good “rules… Continue reading Caring for Your Library (shelving & cleaning)
Recently I went on vacation to New York City, and of course being a book lover through and through my vacation consisted of several bookish stops! Here is a little highlight of the bookish places I went: The Strand Bookstore Founded in 1927, this book store is probably one of the most well known in… Continue reading A Bookish Vacation – NYC
Wayzgoose, historically, was “an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew’s Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or… Continue reading Wayzgoose & Little Notebooks
Recently, I took a course that explored traditional album structures and the various ways of mounting photos, documents, and small works of art on album pages. We made four albums including a Victorian style album using the checkerboard structure, an adhesive binding, and a stub binding. The stub binding is often used for the storage of documents… Continue reading Album Pages & Structures – Course
Continuing the book recommendations from my previous posts, here are several books that I recently came to own and would recommend. Several of these were recommended to me and one I picked up out of interest (Encyclopedia of the Book). Check out part 1 and part 2 of my recommend book lists if you haven’t yet!… Continue reading Recommended Books (Part 3)
I thought I’d give another update on what I’ve been working on! It’s the end of the school term and I may or may not be procrastinating some stats homework. You’ve seen before the miniature book key-chains that I made in a previous blog post… well I’m still making miniatures, but this time they are… Continue reading Miniature books – Lapel pins
It’s been a while since I updated my blog! It’s hard to keep active on here and find the time to write, no matter how many times I tell myself to sit down and write something. I do try to keep my social media a bit more active with photos of what I’m doing. My… Continue reading Bookbinding Level 3
Arielle's Bindery 