Crafting disaster

[wiseheart]

... or, at least, very close to it. I've managed to iron out the worst, but - as badly_knitted rightly stated - paper isn't very forgiving. The traces will remain visible, unfortunately.


But let's start at the beginning, shall we?

I've wasted the morning waiting for the insurance agent who didn't show up; nor did she call and cancel our appointment, which I find rude. Unless she forgot about the whole thing, which I wouldn't put beyond her as she's a little scatter-brained. I didn't really mind that she didn't come; I hadn't originally asked for this appointment, but she likes to feel active and well-informed and all that. Unfortunately, she's also the kind of person who says in 20 sentences everything that could be told in 5 words. So yeah, appointments with her are truly bad for the nerves. Still, I was a bit angry for her not even calling.

In fact, the morning wasn't completely wasted, as I decided to do some writing instead. I wrote quite a bit, almost the complete space battle scene, so that's good. In the afternoon, as it was clear that the lady won't come, I decided to make the binding of Baby Book #2 - the one where I previously managed to botch up a page completely.

Now, binding is always the most tedious and frustrating part of making a book, whether of felt or of paper. But if you botch it up while working with felt, you simply undo the stitches and do them again. With paper, it's more complicated; paper applications rarely survive if you have to tear them off. And I've barely started binding the dratted book when I discovered a grave mistake: I had forgotten to glue the applications onto the base page; instead I glued them together, back-to-back. *facepalm*

There was no way I could have pried them apart in one piece each. So I decided to glue the botched "page" directly to the inner binding - only that one side was too wide. So I had to remove the 4-part folding card (very, very carefully), cut it into 2 pieces, cut off the excess width and then glue them together again, with the help of a small piece of the same cardboard, so that the card could be unfolded again. It was horribly frustrating, and the results are far from what I'd hoped for this particular book, but I can't help it. I only hope that Elise won't mind the mistakes too much, as I don't feel up to redo the entire book again. *sigh*


Other than that, we watched some telly, had Topfenknödel for lunch and I talked to two young (ex-)colleagues on the phone. So, social life, yeah.

Comments

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

So glad that I do not have to do Baby Books! I have problems with putting simple Playmobil models together!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I love making baby books! They are fun! And I've made this particular design several times already without problems — I don't know why I've botched up this particular piece. Probably being too stressed by life in general, which is bad for the concentration.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the mistake.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Argh! That sounds akin to my trick of sticking everything onto the card, then realising that it's upside down. At least with that mistake I can cut the front off and stick the whole thing onto a new card. Your mistake sounds more serious.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to tear out what little hair I still have! BTW, I had played the upside down trick with this very same book previously. Clearly, this piece is cursed.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, annoying like hell. It's hard to focus on such delicate work when one's repeatedly interrupted.