Real Life Journals: Designing & Using Handmade Books
The second in AARP's Live & Learn series celebrates making and keeping journals.\ A custom-made journal can enrich a person's life, and this new entry in the Live & Learn series helps readers design journals that enhance the experiences they're chronicling. The unique format features an envelope attached to the inside front cover that contains a small book called Choose Your Own Bookbinding Adventure so readers can select the perfect journal for their purpose. Imagine a reader wants a...
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The second in AARP's Live & Learn series celebrates making and keeping journals.A custom-made journal can enrich a person's life, and this new entry in the Live & Learn series helps readers design journals that enhance the experiences they're chronicling. The unique format features an envelope attached to the inside front cover that contains a small book called Choose Your Own Bookbinding Adventure so readers can select the perfect journal for their purpose. Imagine a reader wants a travel journal that is portable and has both lined pages and blank ones to paint on. The booklet directs him or her to the instructions in the main book that explain how to make that specific design. There are instructions and beautiful illustrations for 16 kinds of books and 10 cover styles. A removable foldout found on the inside back cover explains essential bookmaking basics. People who had personalized journals made for them by the author share their process and their pages, and beautiful photos and profiles of journal keepers inspire readers to make their own and start writing and drawing.
\ From Barnes & NobleIn recent years, the centuries-old craft of making handmade books and transforming them into personal journals has somehow reemerged somewhat unexpectedly. This second book in AARP's popular Live & Learn series teaches even new crafters how to create your own signature book. Real Life Journals encompass every step; from choosing a bookbinding (an inside front cover inserts lays out your options) to selecting cover and layout designs. Journal impresario Gwen Diehn shows the way with numerous tips and scores of photos of sample pages from a whole rainbow of individual projects. A starter kit for any reflective baby boomer.\ \
