I like to make books. I realize that this is a generally useless activity, because it’s probably cheaper and definitely easier to buy a book. But I can’t stop making them. Here are the things I love about making books:

// Folding paper with a bone folder, perfectly
// Sewing into paper
// Trimming the edges with the guillotine
// Discovering tricks that make the pages open wider or the end papers glue easier, etc.

Have you ever made a book? It. Feels. So Good. There’s something incomparable about touching the pages, about making something functional.

This notebook, consisting of all beautiful French paper, is sewn into three sections with yellow thread, and the paper colors alternate between white, blue and light grey, with yellow endpapers. The cover is letterpressed with an illustration of mine, which you’ve probably seen about 17 or 100 times on this site. I love the octopus.

So! Since I can’t stop making them, and because I’m a part of the recently re-named Book Arts Collective (website redesign pending), I figure why not open an Etsy shop. Come check me out.

Stay tuned for more deliciousness.