Folding lots plus flowers

After our week away, I returned and spent time at the studio, reminding myself where I was up to, and refreshing my sense of where to next. It is a slow business this production of booklets, and I am happy to simply be taking my time. And feeling grateful I have no deadline other than my own.

So I realised that I didn't have the right pen at the studio to make the marks I wanted to make, so rather than working on the covers, I decided I would fold all the pages. 8 folios (x 21 in each) plus the covers (x 21) and the end papers (x 21).

I chose to use the bone folder I had been gifted as part of my presentation time at the Bind25 conference in Auckland, and off I went.

And here is the note to self; the reminder to not try and take shortcuts; the evidence that doing it properly actually works. Above, each set had only been creased with the bondefolder once, along the front.

Below, I turned each page and creased it from behind as well. Look how much better the folios with 'a book' are sitting. Definite note to self!

The eight folios folded, along with the end papers.

And the first glimpse of how it might work - all the folios tucked inside each other, and the title peeking out. You can see how much of the fore edge of the folios will need to be trimmed. But that is all some time away yet.  It was good just to see that it kind of, might actually work...

We have had warm days, but overcast mornings a few times since we came back; and the walk into town is now showered with jacarandas and their petals.  Such a pretty sight. 

I like them dusting the steps like this as well.

Inspired by our friends' garden in Inverloch, we bought these blooms. Would love to see if we can strike them after they are finished, and grow some of our own! Our climates are rather different, but surely it would be worth a try?