People who keep journals have life twice.Jessamyn West

Journals bound by me
Two hand bound books that I’ve made. A gray one with linen fabric as cover, and a black book covered with patterned plastic fabric. Both contains white blank drawing papers, great for sketching, water colours or gluing things in. I’m always looking for blank books like these in the store, beautiful covers and sturdy papers, but without luck most of the time.

The books that you buy in a store almost always have thing 80 gram papers and that doesn’t work for me any more. You can’t even write with a black pen in most of those blankies, because they bleed over to the next page.

Journals bound by me, Copyright Hanna Andersson

So why not make a journal yourself? These are not perfect, I’m still experimenting with this. I just finished another one with cream coloured papers and a blue marmorized colour on the cover. I’ll take a picture as soon as it is dry and out of the press. Next one I think I’ll try to make out of thicker water colour paper. I have some Fabriano paper (300 gram!!!) that I got for Christmas that I think will be great. It is what Teesha Moore use for her journal pages.

Two handmade blank books

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