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went on a couple of trips; bought some souvenirs.
here is my current stack of blank notebooks. compare this with 6 months ago:
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it has grown so much...
Notebook/journal hand covered in 1960's interior magazine pages & bound with cord & vintage button ready to post for a photo shoot
I've had this little leather notebook for years and it's never had a word written in it! I don't think I write much nowadays as everything seems to be technology driven.
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Fungus Workshop Leather Craft
I learned leather craft from a few books but I felt kind of lonely just doing things I like all by myself. Thanks to Bubi Au Yeung, a figurine artist, who told me about Fungus Workshop, so I signed up for a beginner's class, two lessons passed and I got to know stuffs I didn't learn from books, plus knowing these passionate people who enjoy life and craft genuinely, which is kind of rare in a city like Hong Kong.
Each classmate choose what he/she would like to do from a bunch of samples. I chose to do something in the line of stationery (later I will do a camera/laptop messenger bag). Their template was a notebook cover, but I decided to make it a GTD index card holder. After finishing it, I decided to add a notebook for note taking and an antique key to nostalgize the whole thing.
For all leather projects I did, improvisation in the last minute seems to add beautiful touches to a plain project. As you can see, the enclosure here doesn't wrap the back of the cover to the front, instead it leaves the back wide open so I can dangle the whole notebook or even hook it up to my messenger bag.
Instead of a Moleskine notebook, I put a Rhodia notebook inside just because of its bright orange color, to lighten up a bit. However, I hate the fact that the PU cover of Rhodia discolored after just 6 months from my acquisition of it. In addition, it just doesn't lie flat like a Moleskine does when opened. Anyhow, the discoloration did added the raw and battered look I like.
For those of you who are in Hong Kong and hunger for leather craft, I highly recommend Fungus Workshop. Hoiming and Baldwin, Grace and Philip, all four are friendly souls you can chat with and learn from. I am so happy Hong Kong is catching up with Japan and Taiwan in leather crafting. Keep it up Fungus!
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One in a series of new handmade notebooks I've been working on. This one features vintage wood type spelling WRITE! Typescale
It was all I could do to politely keep my distance while she leafed through her notebooks. Surely there's a way for me to make a good living off my obsession with handwriting, journal-keeping, and secrets. Isn't there?
A friend of mine wanted to know how I was taught to layout a field book. It's a simple process by which you can use almost any notebook for most forms of field research. I learned this technique when I was in Archaeological Field School at Ohio University almost a decade ago. You could use this format for:
1. Journaling
2. Writing
3. Class Notes
4. Field Research
All you'll need is a lined notebook (or graph), some colored pencils and a ruler.
I always stuck the ruler in the back of the notebook because I had to lay out a grid in the notebook in case we found something on the site.
1. Lay the ruler against the outside edge of the notebook and draw a red line down page. For sake of ease, I would just draw the line the width of the ruler since it was usually plenty of space for what I needed in the margins.
2. In the margin that you've created, you can record whatever headings you need to outline the entry. When I was doing archeology, we had to record the date, what plot we were on, what level, etc. If you were using it for class notes or story ideas, then you can change the headings as you see fit.
3. Alternate the colors of pencil you use for the various functions in the layout. I usually used a blue pencil to divide one entry from the next as it was a good visual cue. The body of the text was written however you wanted it to be and along the margin I would list any buzzwords that I knew were important from the entry. This could be anything from a "buzzword" in a conversation, a vocab word from a class' lecture, or something that you would need to easily reference.
I would circle the buzzword in the margin and point to the entry that spoke of it. Usually this was done in green.
4. Anything that was a follow-up to what you were writing about, a to-do, was added and marked with a yellow pencil.
Since it was troublesome to carry a lot of colored pencils with me in the notebook and a bit too complicated to use them while entering the data in the field they were usually used when I got home as a follow-up.
I would usually mark out the margins of a few pages in advance of where I was in the notebook so that I had plenty of room to write. Inside the book itself I would stash a green pencil since that was the color I used to mark anything important on the page.
You could easily substitute the use of colored pencils for high-liters if that's what you like
Terrier motif printed on a design classic Moleskine Cahier Pocket Notebook.
The image was printed using a Gocco, a tabletop Japanese screen printing system. Inky blobs and smudges are part of the process :)