I stalled out on my little envelope journal, and not because it doesn't interest me. One of the myriad of side effects of prednisone is that once you've taken it long enough it shuts down your thyroid (since you are flooded with adrenaline, why would you add more?). Then as you wean off the prednisone it takes a while for it to kick back in.
But another part of the delay has been not being settled with what kind of binding I want to use. I wanted this book to be sturdy, although I haven't had any problems with my other books, but.... I wasn't satisfied. So I went back and forth. Tapes? Yes tapes. No tapes. Yes open spine. No open spine.
I finally decided to glue the signatures together. I did this before I put my holes for the binding in. I don't recommend this, it was not a plan, it was just lazy lazy thinking. So now along with a couple envelopes, each signature has a watercolor paper "cover", each of which has been glued to another. This should stabilize the binding and not have it twist too much. I don't glue the signatures into the binding as a block - just don't know how to do that yet. Maybe won't. But I will also be glueing the endpapers of the first and last signature onto the end boards/covers.
I used Modge Podge because for whatever reason I like the smell.
Then I left it under a little granite triangle I use as a weight. So far I have managed, with the judicial use of freezer paper, not to glue all the envelopes together or to the table. Yay me.
Sometimes I have a whole idea in my head for what I want a book to look like. I thought I did for this, but it went hazy and is only slowly coming into focus. At first this was disconcerting, but I'm enjoying it now.
