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I didn't fall of from the face of the earth, although I've been stumbling quite a lot. I haven't had my regular days off from work and it seems that my creep magnet is getting more and more powerful every day. On the same day I've had the most infuriating customer yet and a customer who was so moved by my kindness that she was literally in tears and brought me a thankyou card later.

Now that I've criminally cut up some of the old books I bought a while ago I have something to show you too. Cutting Corners available in my Etsy shop. Covered with natural linen and decorated with an image of scissors (from a 50's school book). 48 pages of smooth and thick white paper, sewn with waxed natural linen thread.

Episode Nine: The June 6th Boook Jul 15th, 2008 by tedorigawabookmakers This is the June 6th Book (part of a plan). It has yellow lined paper and wooden covers. That darker strip is mahogany while the rest is a lesser wood. Coptic binding, of course, with green waxed linen thread.

Episode None: The June 6th Boook Jul 15th, 2008 by tedorigawabookmakers This is the June 6th Book (part of a plan). It has yellow lined paper and wooden covers. That darker strip is mahogany while the rest is a lesser wood. Coptic binding, of course, with green waxed linen thread.

From my "Cereal Series" I have completed a Premium Corn Flake with Beet Sugar Book with a coptic binding, seven signatures of six pages each for a total of 168 pages on the Star Festival (Tanabata) of Japan wherein two star-crossed (literally) lovers cross the Milky Way to kiss face once a year.

Episode Eight: Five Yellow Magic Notebooks Jul 1st, 2008 by tedorigawabookmakers In the last month or so I got carried away with making editions (more than one book) and this is the second set. Yellow blank notebooks with a coptic stitch, red inserts to add color to the spine, and endpapers I

I promised this would be a good day, now you can see for yourself: I finished all these this morning. The best part is that you can have it! Lately I've seen giveaways almost everywhere in the blogosphere, so now it's my turn to spread the love. Just leave a comment telling me what would your perfect journal be like.

Summer is here, to stay, I believe. It's been too hot for some time, but at least today is a windy day. And the wind blows from the sea. It's funny that I've lived many years in Turku and I've seen the sea less than ten times. I grew up inland, so just knowing that the sea is right here makes everything different.

Today I've got a ton of photos to show you. Very little words, but I'm happy nonetheless. more more more more & more And finally, a group photo of my sixteen days.

Rainy days have made me more productive. I finally made the cushion I had planned on making for months. The gorgeous fabric is hand-printed by the multi-talented Jesse! Once the sun came out for a while I decided to eat my tomato-mozzarella salad on the balcony and took a photo of the pillow too...