DracoJesi
So I was over at a friends house and her husband accidentally spilled a bunch of coffee ( with hazelnut creamer) all over her divination encyclopedia
crying .
So I took a hair-dryer and commenced operation save book. Well the end result being that the parts of the pages that got wet look aged, feel aged and have a slight wrinkle to them. The difference in color is very minor so the method wouldn't change the page you've selected all that much...
There is a bit of fraying where the wet paper met the dry but you wouldn't have that if you did the whole page. Obviously it wouldn't be advisable to age the whole book as it is already bound.
The cons are that those parts smell like Hazel-nut coffee and will have to be fumigated.
I wonder however but using a nice strong smelling tea? I might print out one of the smaller texts I have and experiment.
Coffee mixed with a black tea watered down by 1/3, I found best for 'ageing' paper also If you use a heaver paper the items look and feel more sacred. which just puts the coven in a better frame of mind for getting work done.
Wado, I'll have to try that.
So to be clear I'm mixing the coffee and tea and then using water to get it to 1/3 strength?
Or at the very least have the typeface or handwriting neat and the overall page formatted with certain things centered. I agree presentation makes a big difference even if only a few people have things they need to read in circle. We're very ceremonial so we have the basic structure down and we we encourge natural flow through so that the liturgies take on a life of their own. So we don't normally have written stuff brought into circle like that but it does happen occasionally.
And in my personal praxis if its not a ritual I know by heart I'll bring the BoS (or one of the pages, I use a 5 inch think three ringed binder which is more practical though I am going to make a bound tome at some point. I also have have notebooks with stuff in them. With that I prefer getting the 170/180 pg notebooks with the cardboard dividers in them... with a black or purple cover generally)
The important thing though, as everyone quickly finds out, is that you have to be able to read it by candle light so when I use fonts they aren't two fancy. There's one font in particular I like because it isn't bland but isn't too hard to see.
I wish I had a container/cse for the 5"inch thick binder like I did for the 3" (or 3.5"?) emerald green ones. I have three of those. One used to be the book of shadows. Now one is my art, the other a bunch of ceremonial libris and the third I'm going to put my poetry in.
I've also got old letters and stuff I want to organize. I might put them in the green binder that has the libris, moving the libris to another, smaller binder.
I also want to start a photo scrapbook for church and a scapbook that has notes of losing phallic symbols and pictures of sabbat cake.
biggrin Alas until I can find a place to set up my new printer and allocate more bookshelf space, certain plans are on hiatus. T.T
At least the Church scrapbook I'll keep at the church...
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