Brace yourselves for tragedy: I have no pictures today. I did take a few, but they all turned out fuzzy and horrible. There just wasn't anything very photogenic going on. That being said, today was AWESOME. First thing in the morning, I covered Book #2. BAM. You guys, it went SO WELL. Usually it feels like it takes forever and I am never doing it right and it is weirdly exhausting and draining and just full of uugghhhhhhh. BUT. This time it was like sparkles and rainbows and unicorns! (Anyone who is lucky enough to be around Lucy sometime, get her to sing the 'rainbows and unicorns' song from Yo Gabba Gabba--it is a song about having happy dreams, and Foofa's is OF COURSE about rainbows and unicorns, and Lucy doing a high-pitched Foofa voice is THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD. Parenthetical: Concluded) I just felt confident and patient and happy and successful and it was truly a really really good experience all around. One of my favorite parts of leather covering is doing the corners. Mitered corners are the best thing in the world, but usually they are kind of a hassle to accomplish what with folding and whatnot, but with leather it is SO GREAT because you jsut sort of massage everything into place where you want it to be, and dagum if it isn't usually willing to do what you want it to. When leather is being cooperative, it is amazing to work with.
So I got that done right off the bat and felt fabulous, and then went back and worked on Book#1 stuff--after you cover a book and let it dry for ages, there is all kinds of shiz you have to do to it that I always sort of forget about! So I spent most of the day opening it up in a special way so the leather doesn't rip at the joints, and then paring leather strips for the inner hinges and gluing them down and letting them dry, and then cleaning up the inside covers and doing all kinds of shenanigans to them to get it all ready for the pretty paste down paper that will go in tomorrow. Oh, and also today I started paring leather for Book #3. I don't know if there will turn out to be a Book#4 or not--I might start on it, but I will almost definitely not finish it all the way. I'll be super proud of I get Books #1-3 all the way completed. Seriously, that would be an amazing feat! I think tomorrow will be finishing #1, doing all the inner cover stuff to #2, and then maybe doing more of the easy stuff to #3 like headbands and spine lining and stuff. I've been holding off on doing #3's headbands because Susan and I were going to have Don show us a fancy other way of making them into a cool different pattern, but I don't know if that will pan out or not, and I don't want to wait around for it forever if it means I don't get the book done....hmmm. Difficulties. Guess we'll just have to see how it goes.
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That was the first episode of Yo Gabba Gabba that I ever saw. I remember recording it as soon as I heard the song because I KNEW no one would believe/understand just how awesome the show was without hearing the "unicorns, unicorns" part of the song.
Anyway, I digress. Umm..you are awesome. This leather business seems intense! I am glad you are having such a good time. You are a book producing machine!
Yeah. This is Celia.
Lucy and I watched several episodes this afternoon while Christy was exercising. There is the MOST funny one that has Jack Black in the whole thing about becoming friends. He runs out of gas and is lost in Yo Gabba land. I wonder if I would have thought it was funny months ago before I got sucked into all the episodes and now have my favorites and best songs......
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