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April shenanigans and bookbinding picspam
May. 3rd, 2009 08:05 amSo! What I've Been Up To! Well, the weekend before last was my nephew's first birthday, so I was up north with the family. DUDE. He's walking! And has quite a few words under his belt - along with the most adorable lion roar ever. I can't tell you how much I wish I lived closer to them, though. :(
And LAST weekend. WELL. Last weekend was a wedding. And not just any wedding, but a wedding I've been quiety and eagerly anticipating for several years now, between - get this - my first girlfriend and my roommate at the time (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
themoderatrix, for those of you who know her. And for those of you who don't, she was present *coughandmayhavebeenpartlyresponsibleforcough* the aforementioned PotCookieIncident* and wrote the most awesome intro post of me EVAR). I know, I know, the dynamics sound terribly drama-riffic, but there were about seven years between our breakup and them getting together, so it's All Good. No, really! Does make for a great story, though. And I was terribly tickled that I was referred to indirectly in the wedding ceremony a couple of times (seeing as I was kind of how they met and all).
Aside from it being a lovely weekend getaway in Ottawa withneeuqdrazil, the wedding itself was delightful. The brides were GORGEOUS, it was really wonderful to see both of their families (most of whom I haven't seen in years), and since the brides had asked in lieu of gifts that people help out with the wedding, everything from the chuppah to the wedding cake were lovingly made by family and friends. It helps that they have a lot of insanely talented friends!
So what was my contribution, you may ask? Well, good readers, I made them a guest book. By which I don't mean "I bought a book and covered it in pretty paper". No no, this puppy was lovingly handmade from scratch, using papers from their wedding invitation, a fabric they were using as part of their wedding outfits, handsewn signatures and endbands..the whole shebang. In fact, pretty much anyone who knows me in real life will have heard me blather on about the guestbook sometime over the last month, so in a fit of immodesty I'm going to picspam you with how it turned out. Given my total lack of proper equipment and lack of practice, I'm pretty darn pleased.
( Behold my handiwork )
And! Because a friend pointed out that the crafty among you might actually be curious as to (a) what exactly the "guts" of a traditional handmade book look like and/or (b) how they're made, a bonus picspam:
( tl;dr unless you love books or are curious how things are made, in which case this is actually kinda interesting )
And LAST weekend. WELL. Last weekend was a wedding. And not just any wedding, but a wedding I've been quiety and eagerly anticipating for several years now, between - get this - my first girlfriend and my roommate at the time (
themoderatrix, for those of you who know her. And for those of you who don't, she was present *coughandmayhavebeenpartlyresponsibleforcough* the aforementioned PotCookieIncident* and wrote the most awesome intro post of me EVAR). I know, I know, the dynamics sound terribly drama-riffic, but there were about seven years between our breakup and them getting together, so it's All Good. No, really! Does make for a great story, though. And I was terribly tickled that I was referred to indirectly in the wedding ceremony a couple of times (seeing as I was kind of how they met and all).Aside from it being a lovely weekend getaway in Ottawa with
neeuqdrazil, the wedding itself was delightful. The brides were GORGEOUS, it was really wonderful to see both of their families (most of whom I haven't seen in years), and since the brides had asked in lieu of gifts that people help out with the wedding, everything from the chuppah to the wedding cake were lovingly made by family and friends. It helps that they have a lot of insanely talented friends! So what was my contribution, you may ask? Well, good readers, I made them a guest book. By which I don't mean "I bought a book and covered it in pretty paper". No no, this puppy was lovingly handmade from scratch, using papers from their wedding invitation, a fabric they were using as part of their wedding outfits, handsewn signatures and endbands..the whole shebang. In fact, pretty much anyone who knows me in real life will have heard me blather on about the guestbook sometime over the last month, so in a fit of immodesty I'm going to picspam you with how it turned out. Given my total lack of proper equipment and lack of practice, I'm pretty darn pleased.
( Behold my handiwork )
And! Because a friend pointed out that the crafty among you might actually be curious as to (a) what exactly the "guts" of a traditional handmade book look like and/or (b) how they're made, a bonus picspam:
( tl;dr unless you love books or are curious how things are made, in which case this is actually kinda interesting )