Week Eight - Triangles

This book is made by folding a long piece of paper in to equilateral triangles (or as close as I can to that).  There are 11 triangles in all and when gluing the two ends together you get a small, triangular book that can be opened in many direction.  Before folding, I left one side of the paper blank and I covered the other side with different newspapers.  After folding and gluing, I painted the front of the book black.

Week Seven - Three Little Books

The three small books are made from old artist show postcards with blank paper on the inside.  I used a silk cord for the necklace and silver chain to hang the books.  This was inspired by the style to wear long necklaces that have many different trinkets hanging from it.

Week Six - Book in a Box

This book is made inside a box originally for shredding scissors, which are the angriest scissors I have ever seen by the way.  It was bound with a long stitch on book cloth that was then glue in the box.  It uses magnets as closures for the box.  Inside there are two different kids of sketch paper, brown paper, and newsprint.  I have made similar books that place inside candy boxes.

Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire

I am a rock whose hands have appetites,
I am a rock whose appetites have hands,
I am a thing unresolved into courteous shapeliness.
I am a creature excluded from limbo and hell,
A thing of which heaven prefers to stay well unaware.
Neither pet, nor beast of fields, or beast of the woods,
Nor idiot kept, more or less, in the warmth of the hearth
For the sometime amusement of humans and sarcastic angels.
Nothing exists but it rests on me, at the start,
At the end; but I keep to myself, as no one will have me.

Week Five - Rounded

For this book I started off just sewing the signatures together with a Coptic stitch.  I liked the way it was curling so I put in enough pages so you could stick a pencil in the center (or my pinky because I have small fingers) then I sewed the end to the beginning a made a complete circle.  It's a cute little guy, about a 5" diameter.