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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:13 pm
I learned how to make these super fun things. They do take time and patience, however. You might want to start this gradually.
You are making: Homemade notebooks from recycled paper!
You will need:
1. A hand-held one-hole puncher or a two-hole puncher (basically a hole puncher where you can punch multiple holes on the short side of a piece of paper). A standard three-hole punch is too long.
2. Ample paper that you have planned to recycle, but it's still good because ONE SIDE IS UNPRINTED.
3. Cardboard, like from a cereal box.
4. Hemp, string, or ribbon.
5. Scissors
Steps:
1. Fold all paper, with printed side facing in, in half.
2. Punch holes alongside the paper on the end opposite the crease. I punched three holes on each sheet. If you only have a single-hand punch, punch paper as you collect it, so your hands won't hurt from punching so many holes in 100 pages in one sitting. Try your best to match up the holes on each piece of paper so that when you string them together, they'll be even. These will be the pages to your book.
3. Cut out from the cardboard a "cover" for your book, usually the same size as your folded sheets of paper. Punch holes in the cardboard that match the holes in your punched paper. You need a cover for the front and a cover for the back.
4. Put the cardboard covers on each side of your stack of "pages", and thread your hemp through each set of holes and tie it to make a "binding." It's best to put the blank side of the carboard facing outward so that you can decorate it with stickers, markers, etc.
5. After threading hemp/string through each of your three holes, you are finished! Decorate your book.
I uploaded pictures for your viewing pleasure. Mine is kind of inspirational, like an uplifting journal place where I write down uplifting stuff and amazing things to make me feel better. On the front cover I have uplifting words that make my head feel clear and my heart full of good thoughts, and the second picture is of the inside of my book. On the left I wrote down the lyrics from P!nk's song "God is a DJ," which I think are pretty snazzy lyrics, and on the right I have the poses for a Sun Salutation (yoga). Enjoy (:
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:00 pm
crafty! I've always wanted to learn bookbinding.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:18 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:03 pm
I added some pictures! Enjoy!
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:12 am
Love the work!!
Neat handwriting, by the way.
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:56 pm
That is awesome!
Sun salutations are my foe! (because I want to bend further than I am flexible) ;p
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:04 pm
Invisible Porcelain Boy Love the work!!
Neat handwriting, by the way.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:06 pm
onicoe That is awesome! Sun salutations are my foe! (because I want to bend further than I am flexible) ;p
my whole body shakes when i'm trying to do certain positions. i can't feel the pull in a specific muscle; i just fail at flexibility in general, i guess.
emo
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:42 pm
Wonderful ^^ I should tell my friend Tracey about this! She keeps a little notebook full of cool things that people say.. And she wanted to make her next little notebook, so ta-daa!
I looove Sun Salutation whee I've been doing it since before I knew what yoga was mrgreen Then again I'm naturally flexible sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:10 am
I took a 'design crafts' class last year when I was still in school and we made our own journals from wood shavings and stuff which we put in a big thing of water with some startch. We then put in a screen with a border and lifted it up, that was the paper. It was then put into a pressure with flet on it's sides and all the water came flowing out. The paper turned out beautiful and I was even able to put dryed flowers into mine. OUr cover was made from leather my teacher had got for real cheep. It looks like something Lewis and Clark would have carried around. It's so neat, I'm afraid to use it! n_n I want to do this now too!, you're idea. I got saved a ton of paper that was going to be trown away, but just couldn't. Now I know what to do with it. Yay!
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:10 pm
my favorite part about those pictures is that, in the shadow, you can see my left pinky finger sticking up, prissy style, when holding the camera.
>>;
i have no idea why i do that.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:42 pm
You can, too! xD That's so cute, I would never have noticed until you pointed it out.
I love the idea of this! I've got a bunch of paper that's in the recycling bin that I can use, and I'd looove to make a journal dedicated to yoga (not to steal your idea or anything...). I've got a couple of yoga tapes, and I've been meaning to get into it more lately.
I'm gonna make me one this week! Thanks for posting biggrin
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:55 pm
How many sheets of paper did you use (just so I can get an idea of how much I should gather)?
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