It’s been a very long time since a post was created on this blog site.
Yes, Ms SpoolTeacher has been doing some sewing here and there – mostly altering her own clothes.
But…
She has a friend who introduced her to paper crafting some years ago and she has fallen madly in love with it all – mostly what is lovingly called “junk journaling” in the circles of like-minded people.
It has become a magnificent obsession.
She has rearranged her whole, WHOLE, house to accommodate the processes and accumulated a finely-tuned new hoard of stuff from which to do it all.
This past June, the wisdom of the ether delivered to her a baby pigeon as a tool for guidance, inspiration and love. She is learning to speak the language of birds and that too, is a magnificent obsession.
You will now find everything she does laced with birds.
So what in the realm of spooling can this endeavor be attributed to? She’s asking for advice. She hopes to keep her branding synchronized.
The slide show embedded is a feeble attempt at something akin to a video. She rues the idea of any other obsessions like, filming herself working all day every day; but, since this obsession shows no signs of letting up, it seems like a waste not to share the thrill of it all.
Any suggestions?
Journal -making seems to encapture all of her passions – so it feels fitting that things have evolved to this stage.
Sewing, writing, making, reading…nature, recycling, etc.
She’ll come back with a “flip through” when this album is completed. Maybe by then she will have gotten her act together enough to do a real video. Don’t hold your breath…
If you’d like to see more on the mini albums, (below), or any of her other journaling endeavors, do let her know.
Until next time…keep spooling
Cheers!
Chipboard is the start of the cover. More tweaking to be done. 
The album will stand on its own when fanned – “alligator-mouth” style. 
From the bottom. This is a work in progress and some steps will be changed. The ribbons on the spine are changed to a 3 hole pamphlet stitch done with green binding tape as you will see in another picture. 
Each page is two, scored and folded, card stock pockets glued back to back and then each pocket is covered with scrapbook paper glued on three sides to make another pocket. 
Pockets are made with card stock – two to a leaf, glued back to back. Each has a one inch scored spine as does the cover. 
This album has turned out to be useful for stashing favorite tags and journaling spot ephemera. 
A friend gifted her a stash of manila tags which were the inspiration for this. This idea was featured in a past issue of MaryJanesFarm Magazine.She’s just tweaking some things to personalize it. 
All edges were inked in coordinating colors and one tag was embellished with stenciling using the same ink colors. Can be an ink/stencil sampler album as well. 
Some pockets will be embellished with words. 
The top tag looks a little like graffiti eh? Many layers of this and that over magazine pages which are cut as needed. Mostly for mini albums but some end up as tags. 
Always some birdies. 
Scrapbook paper was a pad purchased long ago that is now finally finding its awaited home. 
Did you say who? Looking for some nice big letters W H O to stick on this pocket. 
More of the magazine paper tags and an inked piece of brown “junk” paper that can be used for a “journaling spot”. 
Three hole pamphlet stitch using green seam-binding tape. It will be unlashed when it’s time to work on the covers. 
The front and back will be covered in a wallpaper she loves, backed with another piece of covered chipboard. Eyelets will be installed on all the holes before relashing. 
Finally finding some new uses for the hoards of sewing stuffs in her stashes. She loves this color of green. 
This is one of the mini albums in progress where the tissue-paper-collaged magazine pages are cut to fit. 
These mini albums are made using small boxes from a powdered lemonade mix she drinks regularly. 
They are each somewhere close to 3 by 5 inches. 
Rubber bands come in very handy to keep pages in the spines while she sifts, sorts and embellishes the pages to her liking. 
Beloved Chicky Doodle. Rescued as a 10 or 11 day old baby, (pigeon), when he was nothing but a ball of quills. Sweet as can be. He was helping her take pictures.
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