Show & Tell: BySaraLynn

It's always so nice to see what people are doing with their journals, and to gain inspiration, to journey forth and keep creating these hand bound beauties.  I thought I would start to share with my readers how other people are using their journals and sketchbooks to record their adventures and lives for future generations.

From the flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/nightowlcraftworksshowandtell/

One of my very good... excellent customers, BySaraLynn was kind enough to post pics of her journal in use on the flickr pool I created.  Check out that song list... there's a wedding to be at!!!

Sara is a great Etsy community member.  She is not only one of my best customers, but she is part of the LabRatsTeam, and has a beautiful shop of her own! 

Sara, thanks for letting me share with my readers!

Custom work for a special person...

This past week I have been working on a few custom orders.  This one is for BySaraLynn's finance.  She ordered a planner for herself also, they both came out looking VERY nice.  I've been pretty excited to get them done.

Here is the book cloth, binders board, and signatures prepped for construction.  I screen printed onto the book cloth in black textile ink.  The PDF for the signature pages were purchased from droplet.  I fiddled around with it a lot at first... then got the signatures all settled.  The PDF was great to work with.  Fun yet simple.  Perfect really.  I glued, cut, glued some more, poked holes, and started binding the book together.  They came together very smoothly.  

Looking pretty good, don't cha think?

She hasn't gotten them yet... I hope they like them!  :D