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| Lately I've been trying to straighten things up around my studio. Problems are that I like to have everything on display and I also seem to work better when ephemera is out all over and I can look at it and get random ideas. I love those little stamp bundles (above). I wonder who has the patience to put the stamps in bundles like that? Not me. |
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| There is a special spot for my wonderful Dori Singh mail..... |
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| Mail boxes and mail art - oh my! |
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| Tickets always come in handy for various projects and they are nice to look at too. |
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| I like pretty tin boxes for storage. These beauties are from France (cookie boxes). |
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| Recently added to the vintage wooden ruler collection. Thank you to Scrap. |
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| Hummm....I better get these plastic boxes of stamps off the floor.... |
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| $1 at the book sale -- could you resist? |
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| Airmail envelopes and some vintage stationery from Scrap. |
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| See that china bowl with the gold rim? If you are relatively new to the blog you might not know I received it in the mail. Unwrapped and covered with stamps and my address written on it in Sharpie. Found on my front step - delivered by the USPS. Coolest mail art ever. |
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| So, you want to see how to make that booklet with no glue or staples? Here's how I do it: |
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| Tear five pages out of a discarded book. Or, just any five pieces of paper you have (all the same size). |
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| Fold them in half like this..... |
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| Cut ONE of the sheets of paper like this. |
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| See? You cut a slot in the middle of the fold.. |
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| Then cut the FOUR remaining sheets like this -- little notches at the top and bottom of the fold. |
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| This is totally easy to do but difficult to take a photo of....You roll the paper with the slots (one at a time) and insert thru the cut in that first sheet and then line up the folds... then you just tuck the notched part in and the top and bottom...easy really... |
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| I'm just pushing the paper through the slot and when the middle folds line up the top and bottom will just hook in... |
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| And viola! A little booklet you can decorate and send out in the mail. |
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| Go ahead and try it -- it is really easy. Or, just come on over to my studio and I'll show you. I love company and making things with friends. I hope these instructions are clear enough for you guys to make the books. (Shout-out to Monica for showing me how to do it) You could use three - or five - or seven pages, I think....I make little books and filled them with vintage postage stamps and rubber stamps and tiny collages... So, let me know how you do, OK? Have fun! MAKE SOMETHING EVERY DAY! |
