Outodbox Quiz #3

Can you find me? You can only answer one time. I will send you this journal I made. Sent to you where ever you are. Free of charge. Size h18cm x w11.5cm. Cover and page divider made from a recycled box of my first running shoes. Side stitch binding. 190 pages filled with hand written running quotes. Guaranteed to motivate you to run! You are exempted from the quiz if you are 1. My daughter, 2. Participated in INAMaster's open water swimming in pulau Putri in April 2015. ;-)

Photo courtesy of INAMaster

Outodbox Quiz

Guess why Dena, my daughter who is 8289 miles away from me, look so happy in this picture? You can only answer one time. I will give you this A5 journal I made with brown paper, hand made stitched binding and recycled cover. Send to wherever you are.

Book #1: IES Divers

I'm glad I am a visual learner so I don't have to read the instruction on page 92 of Making Handmade Book. I can just look at the picture and figure things out. A Sidebound binding or also known as Japanese Side stitch is easy. It takes less time to make than a Coptic binding. I love it! If you are not a visual learner and learn better by reading text click here.

Diagram from Making Handmade Book by Alisa Golden

Color My World

My first color pencil set had only six colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, green and purple. Dena's first color pencil set had sixty four colors: vermillion, ocher, emerald, azure, magenta, lilac and more. I remember she loved playing with the pencils when she was small. She would take out all pencils from the box, mixed them all up, and sorted them by colors. She would be absorbed in the hues of the colors and forgot the rest of the world. 
I'm naming my handmade journals after those beautiful colors.

Cadmium Orange

Red Blue

Sea Green

Baby Pink

Now & Then

Dena's book report from grade 4. Her task was to rewrite & illustrate a novel into a picture book for a small children audience.  I wonder what she is up to in ECUAD now. 

Change Of Plan

For a fundraising in IES South I made 20 sketchbooks. I wanted to make a hand made envelope for each book, but it was too time-consuming. Think! Think! How do I pack these sketchbooks nicely & quickly? I sorted out my stuff and found some clear paper, colorful elastic bands, left over round stickers from a yearbook project, and some buttons. 
I used my printer to print a title on the clear paper, wrapped it around the sketchbook, hold it in the back with the round sticker, and secure it with the elastic band & button. 
It was less than 5 steps and cost me nothing. Woohoo!

See You Letter

My friend lent me her precious letter paper & envelope so I can up-cycle them into a journal. Last month when I had a once in a life time chance to write a letter, I couldn't find any letter paper in any book store. The sale girls looked at me with a puzzled look like I'm some kind of a weirdo from another planet when I asked for letter paper. Who has the time to write letter in an e-world these days? In a fast world patience is such a lonely word.