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[liralen]

The morning was quite busy, and I got signed up for more stuff.

The dream class was very enamored with the idea of making dream journals for themselves, too. So I'm probably going to help them with that. If it's multiple signatures, I might have to sew a few of those up to begin with, and then let them do their own covers for them. If, however, they want to live with a single signature, then they could really make it up for themselves.

There's more people than just the dream people who want to do it, too, so it should be interesting.



Jet had fun giving away the book he made the other night to a lady that was a librarian and who was very grateful for her gift.

He also distributed a bunch of the stuff he sold for school.

Last night, just as I was getting ready for bed, I heard rustling in the storage pantry we have for food that we're storing for a while because it can't fit into our regular pantry and it's not urgent that we get to it, yet. Most of it is canned, but there are a few plastic wrapped things, including a bag of Pepperridge Farm stuffing that I could see had a hole in the *TOP* of it that was chewed into place. There was a mouse in the closet, and it was taking a bite out of nearly everything.

John came when I yelled, and we cleared out the bottom and the first shelf so that there wouldn't be anything to climb, and then we put traps in there and around the washing machine. There were already a few traps around the refrigerator, we've been trapping mice like crazy for just the last week, when the weather started freezing. Several neighbors are having the same problem, so we figure the field mice population exploded over this last summer, and now that it's getting really cold they're trying to find a warm place with food. Some folks are even resorting to poisons. We're just trapping dead and throwing them out. We caught seven in one day. *sigh*

It's not fun. We've tried to close up any place we think they could get in, but, obviously, that isn't working. The one we found in the pantry got caught in a drawer later. The drawer we keep our baking sheets in may be around wherever they come in, as it's seems pretty constantly visited by them. There isn't anything edible in there, but they rattle around pretty well when they get in there, so the trap has the only food in there.

They don't seem to get into any of the other drawers. The main pantry seems quite safe. So maybe I should be looking under that drawer for a clue...

I'm half afraid to, though.

One of the girls of one of the families that's getting invaded has decided she's going to sleep with her parents until the mice go away... so they're pretty motivated in getting the mice out of the house.

Spent the afternoon on a book for Jet. He wanted "ten of five" signatures, and so we made eleven, as we were getting eight folios out of each sheet of paper with the size he wanted, so I did all the cutting, he did all the folding, and when we got to the sewing, he went at it in three different sessions with some Veggie Tales in between each session. But he sewed the whole thing himself. He let me do the glueing and taping, and when it was dry, after dinner, he and I put together the cover. I made the spine board a little too big, but it's close enough it'll work, I think. So we put it all together and he's very proud of it. I made a little flicker set of the whole process of getting the cover on, in case folks wants to take a look.

Then it was bath time for Jet. He enjoyed a bubble bath, and then coughed a lot while in bed. His whole class got decimated by colds just before this vacation weekend, so I wouldn't be surprised if he'd gotten some kind of cold.

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[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

I was overcome by your discription of book making and made one yesterday. I used the directions from the Make Your Own Moleskin-Like-Notebook website that you listed in one of your posts.

I love my little book. It has a cloth cover with a design of leaves and sections of an old topog map for the endpapers.

What kind of glue do you use? I used Alene's Tacky Glue because it's what I had. It had gotten thick so I watered it down some and used a little brush to apply it. It really soaked into the cloth. I had the glued sections separated from the rest of the book with sheets of wax paper so nothing got stuck together that wasn't supposed to get stuck together, but it took forever to dry. I don't know. Maybe it was a good thing that the glue soaked in like that. The book was perfectly flat this morning when I took it out from under The Mayo Clinic Family Health Book.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I just used Elmer's *grin* Though, for my first book I didn't actually use any glue at all, and just relied on the cloth athletic tape as I wasn't sure I wanted glue between the pages.

But there were definite gaps between the signatures, so I decided to use glue on my second book. And it worked really, really well.

Jet liked how the blue worked, too, on his book. It was fun.

And, yes, both Jet's and my books were perfectly flat after living for a night under our Webster's Unabridged dictionary. *laughter*

I gave away my first and second books, and there were definite flaws *laughter*. So I'm probably going to sew and glue up a bunch of cores this week, for the dream class and after I'm done with all *those* I might actually make one for myself! Or else I'll be sick of books...

We'll see. Jet's obsession has been rubbing off on me quite nicely.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oh! And Ross said something about you making him a book when he was small of stories he'd told you! That was very, very inspiring.

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

He told you about The Adventures of Ross? He was about three when I started that. I used a school essay book. He told me stories about adventures he had, I wrote them down and drew a picture for each one. He had two friends, Camel and Wooly Lamb, along on many of his adventures. In real life Camel was imaginary and Wooly Lamb was a stuffed animal. My personal favorite of his adventures was when he and Camel and Wooly Lamb went to the moon.