Victorian diaries

[wiseheart]

I've started a short little side story to "An Excellent Mystery", in which Dr Sarah Sawyer (or rather her Victorian equivalent, who is the police pathologist in Birmingham, like Dr Ogden in "The Murdoch Mysteries") describes a certain aspect of her and Molly's trip to Paris in the company of Sherlock. She writes the story with "an illicit affair" (which is the story title) in a diary that's handed to her lady friend, Mrs Emily Holroyd, after her untimely death.

Now, by doing the background research on Victorian diaries for this story, I found this video on YouTube:

Which lead me to this other video, also on YouTube:

And now I feel the near unstoppable urge to make such a thing myself. As if I needed another craft to lose my heart to! As if I could get the right tools and materials! As if I could actually afford them, even if they were available! And yet I want to try my hand on it so much that it almost physically hurts! Yeah, I know, I'm a complete fool. A Depp, as the Germans would say.

But perhaps I can try to make the poor (wo)man's version of it, for the wedding of a beloved colleague. There is still time till July to hunt down ersatz material, eh?

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Oh gosh but that is gorgeous!

I completely get your misgivings about being able to get and afford the materials, but nevertheless I'd be excited to see whatever you come up with if you give it a try!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'd love to give it a try, but I'm a teensy bit intimidated by the challenge, TBH. I don't know a thing about book-binding, so my only chance would be either a gutted book or one of those scrapbook dummies - neither solution looks very promising. We'll see. If I do this, I'll post a pic, no matter how it turns out.

[artemis10002000]

Oh yes, if book binding is involved... That does sound very intimidating, and costly in terms of equipment. I hope scrapbook or gutted book will work.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I'd even cough up the costs if that were all. It's the necessary skills and finding the right stuff that intimidates me.

[sammydragoncat]

It does look lovely.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed, although it has a bit too much of everything for my personal taste. Perhaps one day I'll be able to make my own version.