{"id":1099,"date":"2011-03-09T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2013-02-03T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:56:54","slug":"28-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/28-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"28 lists…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December, I subscribed to an online workshop where I learned two different
\nways of bookbinding. I love one of the techniques I learned – with ribbons
\nover the spine – but I don’t like the other one that much. I made one small
\njournal with the “less cute binding” back then, just to practice the technique.<\/p>\n

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

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Being enthusiastic, I made a background on the first page immediately…
\nbut then I got stuck.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what it is with this journal – but I just didn’t know what to put
\non this page. I flipped through magazines, looking for an image that would
\ncatch my eye. Nothing happened. I thought about quotes, songlyrics, text…
\nnothing came to mind. No spark, no beginning of even the smallest fire…
\nI had better call this ‘my problematic journal’.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I showed you the basic of the page.
\nAny ideas??<\/p>\n

The ‘black-out’ worked on all levels.
\nBeing over-active last week, I got stuck in all my journals last days.
\nI concluded I’d done a lot of ‘heavy’ pages and soul searching lately,
\nand that’s why I felt kinda ’empty’ starting a new page – not knowing
\nwhich topic or theme I should choose, while at the same time I longed
\nto create. I was saved from sinking into apathy by Michelle’s blog<\/a>!
\nShe found a site called 30 days of lists<\/a> and that was just what I needed!<\/p>\n

You get a prompt every day to make a list about something.
\nNothing ‘heavy’ – just simple. You can jot it down on paper or make an
\nart journal page or whatever. Aaaaahhhh… hooray for ‘simplicity’!!!<\/p>\n

Yep, my mojo started flowing, and I made this cute little journal
\n(5.1 x 8.3″) to begin with! In my favourite binding!!!<\/p>\n

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Why only 28 lists, you might think?
\nWell, this way of binding is done with signatures (double folded pages)
\nEach signature leaves you with 4 page-sides… so it was either 32 or 28
\nsides to work on. I rather skip two prompts then make up two extra lists,
\nso I made this journal with 28 page sides (which is 14 pages, which is 7
\nsignatures – thought I’d say this for the extra curious ones – or lousy
\nmathematics \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

And here’s the first page “A few things about myself”<\/p>\n

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