Blue Journal

Blue Journal – Wendy Hale Davis taught me this structure.  Arches Text Wove sewn on cords, laced on boards, rounded and shouldered spine, goatskin, hand painted paste paper, sewn silk headbands, 316 pages, 10 ½ x 6 7/8 x 2 3/8”. 

Boston Journal
Boston Book – My handmade paper cover is abaca with my hand dyed and beaten Kozo fibers.  It’s 12 x 9 ¾ x 7/8”, long stitch through slotted cover.

Brazil Book
Brazil Book – My travel journal for a month in Brazil the summer of 2001,  it’s 12 ¼ x 9 x 3 ¾”.  Waxed linen long stitch through slotted spine on Rives reinforced with Tyvek, front and back Davy board covered in hand painted paste paper.  I love how this book telescopes with all the ephemera, collages, and over 300 photographs I crammed in with all the writing, sketching, postcards, maps and brochures.

D.C. Journal

D.C. Journal – My travel journal for a week in Washington in November 2000, it’s 12 1/8 x 8 15/16 x 2”.  Waxed linen long stitch through slotted cover, Rives cover with hand painted paste paper and Hahnemühle Schiller,  around 300 pages.

Europe Journal

Europe Journal – From my summer trip in 2000, it’s 6 5/8 x 5 ¼ x 1”.  Maggie Gillikin taught me this.  Case binding in clamshell box, both covered in book cloth with Arches Text Wove pages inside.

Halter Journal

Halter Journal – Named for the skimpy yellow leather halter I wore in my teens that I cut up for the covers.  Sewn on cords, laced on boards, rounded and shouldered spine, sewn silk headbands, tie dyed goatskin, Japanese paper,  Hahnemühle Schiller, 300 or so pages,   9 1/8 x 6 3/8 x 2”.

Organic Journal

Organic Journal – I like the curvy lines of the cords on this journal made by punching slightly uneven holes in the signatures.  Sewn on cords, laced on boards, rounded and shouldered spine, sewn silk headbands, tie dyed goatskin, Hahnemühle Schiller, hand painted paste papers, 9 1/8 x 6 3/8 x 2”.

  Red Journal

Red Journal – Made for Artfest, with a cozy little case made from a Fed Ex box at 3 a.m. the early morning before my flight, this 9 x 6 ¼ x 3” book has a quilted, fabric and assorted doo-dad collage cover I made at my first Artfest.  Waxed linen long stitch through slotted spine and Hahnemühle Schiller for almost 400 pages.

Veni Journal 

Veni Journal – My travel journal for a month of Maine and Kentucky, it’s 9 1/8 x 9 3/8 x 1 ¾”.  Another structure I learned from Wendy Hale Davis, this concave spine book with inlaid goatskin over board has Hahnemühle Schiller inside.