06-09-13 | A Little Red Travel Notebook

The title is a reference to this book.

Here is an appropriately-colored hand-bound travel journal I made for recording notes and things. Hopefully I'll actually use it. The Light Fellowship provides small notebooks to help students keep records. I'd say I made my own because the provided notebooks aren't up to my standards... but I was mostly just bored. 

Here's some pictures and specs: 100pgs 20lb copy paper; white cardstock endpapers; mint-dental-floss-stitched spine; glued stiff red felt cover. For those unfamiliar with my semi-obsessive bookbinding hobby: a few recent examples here and here. 

 @bookbinders: felt is a b*tch to glue, but it does work with overnight  encyclopedia-stack pressure with paper-towel inserts to absorb excess moisture. 

Cheers,
ELK. (at some point these signoffs will have to switch languages...)