Marit's Paper World (blog)

It’s a bit odd to write a post on Wednesday- but after this one,
I will be back in the routine of posting on Tuesdays and Fridays… promise!

And what do I have for you today?

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…where it gets good!

Surprised to hear music playing?
Yep, my weblog is usually a ‘quiet place’ – but not today!

My son discovered the band ‘Eels’ last year.
He bought their cd’s, saw a documentary and went to a concert.
Ofcourse he played their music for us too, and I must say: he has
a good taste in music! I love the songs, the lyrics are awesome and
since I like to use lyrics in my art I made a page with it. I finished this
over a week ago (it was on the songs in my heART blog already) but
I show it to you while you hear that song playing. (At least I hope
you hear it – my beloved helped me include music into my blogpost…)

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I woke up early this morning. My beloved had to take the train to Amsterdam,
and my son first has a test at the university and after that, will take the plane
to Berlin to spend the weekend. That means I have the house to myself today!
That’s pretty rare to me! Because my beloved and I have a home business, we
are together all the time. I must say, I enjoy being alone at home for a change!

I spend the morning with taking photos with the self-timer (with satisfying
results) and I plan on making a page with one of the photos this afternoon.
If everything goes according to plan, the layout will be in time for the prompt
at These are a few of my favorite things, but I do have to post it Sunday at
the latest. (That’s good news for you – you will get another extra post!)

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It’s not Sunday yet… so here’s what I made in the last couple of days.
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In December, I subscribed to an online workshop where I learned two different
ways of bookbinding. I love one of the techniques I learned – with ribbons
over the spine – but I don’t like the other one that much. I made one small
journal with the “less cute binding” back then, just to practice the technique.

I used nice, heavy water colour paper for the inside pages, and a while ago,
I made a few drawings on the first pages. I’m not good at drawing, and I don’t
see myself drawing very often, so I decided to gesso the pages and make a
small ‘bonus journal’ out of it. (This journal measures 8.3 x 5.3″)

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