leigh ann

2024

Okanagan College | Small Press Publishing

Handmade Journal

In my small press publishing class at OC – Kevin McPherson taught us the ins and outs of bookbinding. This journal was a result of old materials and learning how to sew a cover onto a coptic bind.

There are some obvious issues. The stitching isn’t as tight as I’d want to be as this was more of a problem solving than perfection project.

And somehow in my attempt to connect the cover I skipped the first stitch on my first and second folios?

Either way I’ve had this stitched and sitting in my inventory for a while now.

I’m not sure about anybody else but I always get this feeling that I have to save my journals and only use them for specific things that I haven’t decided on yet. Which results in a myriad of never used journals.

So recently I decided I’m going to keep an everything journal – from small notes to my yearly planner. And I couldn’t think of a better way to start than to use a journal created by own hands.

I’ve started already by cutting scraps from my current mishmash of journals.

Then I’ve been adding in new planner stuff and appointment lists and goals – all of which I won’t show for personal reasons.

When I made this journal I don’t know what I thought I’d do with it but here we are.

I think once I move past all my currently own journals I might go to specifically only using homemade journals.

The cats seem to like them!