Crafty things

[wiseheart]

I've started to work on the baby journal for Baby Emma, expected to be born in late Juni - or rather for her mum, who happens to be my goddaughter. It's going to be a bit more lacy and pink like the last baby journal I made and a great deal more complicated.

For starters, it's going to be a bound journal, with 50 pages altogether, which I'll sew in in 5 bunches. Then it will have a lot of little embellishments, like self-folded envelopes of origami paper, which I've made this morning. There may be pictures later. It will also have lots of surprise pockets, lace lining (I mean paper lace, made with a border puncher - I've just finished the first bunch, and it looks promising).

Encouraged by this mammooth project, I gave up my futile resistance after half a year or longer and invested into a corner puncher. It's this one, from Efco:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Efco-Corner-Punch-Tendril-Pink/dp/B00O719TFK

I've wanted one for a long time - they're all so very pretty - but I always talked myself out of wasting money on something I'll probably use rarely. But now I gave in. Motif punchers are so terribly addictive, you can never have enough of them. Errr... yes, you can, but why would you want to?

I also made two more pencil holders out of recycled tin cans. The mini pizzas provided me with enough material, and I have quite a lot of corrugated paper I need to use up. I'd never buy them on my own, but most paper packages have them, even if you buy those packages for the other paper sorts. Annyoing, but that's capitalism for you.

Anyway, there'll be photos later, but now I need to type up stuff. The picowrimo crowd will expect a snippet from me tonight.

Comments

[meathiel]

Paper punchers are an absolute must ... *lol*

[artemis10002000]

Wishing you good luck for that mammoth project! It does sound very daunting but I'm sure you can do it

Edit: and then when I'm complaining that I can't log in, I do finally get logged in lol

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I already have 8 of them (unless I forget one or two), but it is a bitter fight every time I set foot into a craft shop. There are two I'm dying to get, but both are so unreasonably expensive that the (rare) needs don't justify the expense. One is a corner cutter you could cut the corners on your paper in three different ways. The other one is a tab puncher you could produce three or four different kinds of tabs with - one of them beautifully complex.

The truth is, I could actually afford to buy them; it's just so that my conscience won't let me spend so much money on some simple tools while I can do the same with a pair of scissors, even though the results are a lot less professional.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Your trust in my skills honours me. ;)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

This baby journal sounds epic! What a gorgeous present for your goddaughter.

I have a couple of paper punchers, quite simple ones bought cheaply on ebay. Most were bought for the Versailles ball, so with black paper me and my chums could add beauty "patches" to complete the 18th century look.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They are all very handy indeed.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

What a lovely gift to give for Baby Emma. I can't wait to see your creation. I know it's going to be lovely

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

Gee, I wish I had you around when I had my kids. Your journals sound beautiful. I would have loved one. They would have been much nicer keepsakes than the cheap, store-bought ones that I got. ;P

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hope so. I'll document the process in pictures, so that you folks can follow the development.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've only started making these a couple of years ago. It is great fun, though, and the envelope version, for example, is relatively easy to make.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It depends on the results, of course.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like such a wonderful gift.