The Final Cereal Serials of my First Year

Summer was approaching and I knew serials would be difficult to make. I had many. I wanted more. And I had tons of cereal boxes next to my bench.

Mini Wheats with Maroon Spine

$12

Honey Bunches of Oats

$12

Cap'n Crunch

$12

Cap'n Crunch Small

$10

Lucky Charms

$12

GO Lean!

$10

Lucky Charms Small with Navy Spine

There are many more in stock. Cereal and non-cereal (made with marbled paper). Email me if you'd like to see more!

Soft Leather Historic Longstitch

In the last few weeks of school I happened upon The Leather Guy, a company that sells all different kinds of leather. I bought a bundle with the intention of making soft leather historic longstitch bindings. In the past I have used stiff wooden spines and hand made papers for this structure but wanted to see what I could do with this new leather which is quite unfit for paring as it was vegetable tanned and rather tough on the fleshy side.

I have seen this structure all over the place but the sections of paper are sewn directly through the leather -- I am not a fan. The book ends of super floppy doppy and I prefer a more controlled item. I produced a stiff spine using 40 point board which keeps the sections of paper snug. The leather is completely soft and drapes open beautifully.

I used a goat skin strip for the wrap enclosure.

Something simple. Something pretty. It was the end of the year.