I am approximately halfway through Equal Rites. I could have finished it by now, but my weasel brain is still weasely around books for some reason. Everything else, I have kind of slid back into*, although it has taken its time, except for reading and writing. Although I feel a bit like I'm getting there, I just wish it would happen a little bit faster.
Anyway, I am enjoying Equal Rites, and it doesn't feel like a chore to read. It does feel a little bit familiar in parts, and I wonder if I have read it but just don't remember (entirely possible). Although I think some of the familiarity is that some of it covers the same ground as one of the Tiffany Aching books (which I've read 3/5 of), wherein Granny Weatherwax is teaching a young 'in Witchy Things™. Anyway, it doesn't matter, because I'm enjoying it, and that's what counts!
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I made another book yesterday, because apparently I can't help myself!
But I wanted to experiment to see if I could make a book with pages interleaved with something else to protect (most of) the inbetween pages if, say, you did a lot of drawing in pencil or other potentially smudgy media. And I did! (Card interleaved with layout paper. I thought about using tracing paper, but I've got more layout paper, so I thought I'd use that).
However, I used a cover off an old notebook for the cover of this book, and because it had had a shiny cover, the paper I stuck to it wrinkled a bit because the glue didn't absorb properly. So that's something to bear in mind for the future. Also the text block isn't sitting in it properly, but I've had that problem before, and I know exactly how to fix it.
(Oh, kettle stitch this, my brain says, it'll be easier than coptic stitching! Less faffing about!
Except w t f does my brain know, because this is what happened!)
Also did you know that I have now been making books for just over a year? Because I have! \o/ I'm really glad I learnt to make books this way, because I really enjoy it. Now I just have to use them all!
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Outside Xtra did a Fall Guys stream which, as you will note, I don't usually link to. But I'm linking this one because of the extended conversation about playgrounds, and what your favourite thing on them is, and also Luke's question about what would you do if your teacher challenged you to a game of Street Fighter.
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*Though it has been, somewhat, like when you go on a slide and get stuck partway down. So you set off again, only for it to happen once more.
Anyway, I am enjoying Equal Rites, and it doesn't feel like a chore to read. It does feel a little bit familiar in parts, and I wonder if I have read it but just don't remember (entirely possible). Although I think some of the familiarity is that some of it covers the same ground as one of the Tiffany Aching books (which I've read 3/5 of), wherein Granny Weatherwax is teaching a young 'in Witchy Things™. Anyway, it doesn't matter, because I'm enjoying it, and that's what counts!
~
I made another book yesterday, because apparently I can't help myself!
But I wanted to experiment to see if I could make a book with pages interleaved with something else to protect (most of) the inbetween pages if, say, you did a lot of drawing in pencil or other potentially smudgy media. And I did! (Card interleaved with layout paper. I thought about using tracing paper, but I've got more layout paper, so I thought I'd use that).
However, I used a cover off an old notebook for the cover of this book, and because it had had a shiny cover, the paper I stuck to it wrinkled a bit because the glue didn't absorb properly. So that's something to bear in mind for the future. Also the text block isn't sitting in it properly, but I've had that problem before, and I know exactly how to fix it.
(Oh, kettle stitch this, my brain says, it'll be easier than coptic stitching! Less faffing about!
Except w t f does my brain know, because this is what happened!)
Also did you know that I have now been making books for just over a year? Because I have! \o/ I'm really glad I learnt to make books this way, because I really enjoy it. Now I just have to use them all!
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Outside Xtra did a Fall Guys stream which, as you will note, I don't usually link to. But I'm linking this one because of the extended conversation about playgrounds, and what your favourite thing on them is, and also Luke's question about what would you do if your teacher challenged you to a game of Street Fighter.
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*Though it has been, somewhat, like when you go on a slide and get stuck partway down. So you set off again, only for it to happen once more.
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