Sunday, November 24, 2013

A Poetic New Journal































The minute I picked up this old paperback book, I knew I wanted to turn it into a new journal. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the color and pattern on the cover.































I filled it with a tan colored cover stock that I've had forever. I used a corner punch to round the corners of each page because I thought it just called for rounded corners.































I glued the book covers to another piece of card stock to give them a bit more weight and rounded those corners too. Then I glued a piece of soft black leather to the covers and bound it all together with some gifted thread using the long stitch. I made a mistake and the pattern on the back cover ended up upside down--oops.
 




























I considered cutting out the title to make a window opening for my own title, but then decided to leave it as is. How could you not love that old penguin logo on a book called "The Metaphysical Poets?" Really, what does that mean? I gave myself about ten minutes to figure it out then realized I really didn't need to know in order to just appreciate the graphic beauty of this old book.































I plan to use this as a note taking journal and a place to scribble down whatever is inspiring me at the moment. Who knows--maybe I'll even manage to include a few metaphysical poems.

3 comments:

lori vliegen said...

so metaphysically marvelous!! beautifully done, journal girl!! have fun filling those pages with all your fabulous letterforms and sketches! xox

Deborah Weber said...

How delicious! Can't wait to see how you fill it.

Unknown said...

i'm glad you didn't cut out the title! It's the bomb! What do you do in this journal? Lovely!