Making & Keeping Creative Journals

By Suzanne J.E. Tourtillott

Book Overview

Stimulate the writer and artist within you by making a custom journal that conveys your love of words and images, or captures your special interests, such as gardening or travel. 15 handmade imaginative and personalized projects are featured, with step-by-step instructions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579902146
• ISBN13: 9781579902148
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Lark Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Making & Keeping Creative Journals

This is a lovely and inspirational book for making interesting journals. I was pleased to see that the projects in this book were fresh--not the same old thing, revisited. The photographs and examples are so beautiful I found myself thinking, "I want to make this one and this one and this one..."This is probably not the best book for beginning book makers. I would describe myself as an intermediate book maker with several years of experience in binding different types of books. In making the Gardener's Journal, I had some difficulty interpreting some of the illustrations and one of the templates is flat-out wrong; however, these problems did not prevent me from completing the Gardener's journal and the finished product is really beautiful. Also, some of the bindings and materials suggested are tricky. For example, several journals include leather covers and the instructions seem to gloss over what type of leather to use, how to prepare it, etc. For the less commonly used book binding materials, such as embossed metallic foil and dollhouse nails, a list of suppliers would have been extremely helpful--even if I had to go online to access it. On the plus side, this is a great book to get ideas on keeping different types of journals: bird watching journals, gardening journals, etc. Another fresh idea this book provides is the viewpoint of both the journaler and the book maker. The journaler defines the purpose of the journal and the book maker creates a journal to meet that purpose. Very cool.