double booked
last year the wincon concomm ran an indiegogo campaign to fund the con for this year, and i offered to make a book as one of the perks. i said i'd deliver it in february or march, which means i actually finished it at wincon. >.< and then never managed to actually deliver it in person. >.< so i had to mail it after i got home. >.< never let it be said i did something on time when i could procrastinate like a motherfucker.
anyway, here it is.
the (very patient!) person who won it expressed a preference for purple and silver, so the cover paper is effectively lavender tissue paper with silver stars. i put solid purple paper under it so you wouldn't see the cover board through the cover paper. fortunately i already had gray ribbon for the bookmark, so i didn't have to go out and look for it. (my favorite place to get ribbon CLOSED, so i keep having to find new places to go.)
it's bound with, uh, waxed dental floss, because i like the way it looks. because i finished the book at wincon, i took all these pictures in the fandom lounge.
the recipient asked if i could do lined paper, which i figured out just for her. :D i think the pages might be a little too narrow-ruled, tho. i had the inside cover paper already, so i didn't have to go out and buy it either. i did have to find some beads, but i like bead shopping. altho the bead store near me has ALSO closed. >.<
i also made a book for the raffle, because i always make a book for the raffle, and this year it was won by beadslut. i love it when my friends win my books. :D
travel paper! with ticket stubs and all. i thought it was appropriate, considering a. pretty much everyone has to travel to wincon, and b. back in the day when it was winchestercon, all those train tickets and telegrams and evidence of us travel just screamed "spn!". also there's a stub for the wabash pittsburgh terminal railway co, and wincon was in pittsburgh this year.
i apparently did not completely sweep my floor before i took these pics, so please to be ignoring the white hair. >.< i shed like a collie in the summer.
and this is what the back looks like.
i have this really great brown thread that's unfortunately unwaxed, which means that it looks really nice as a binding but i have to stop every so often and wax it - i have a round of wax for just this purpose - otherwise it tangles if you look at it wrong and makes sewing the binding excessively difficult. but it was the perfect color.
made with love for a fangirl. :D the little bells on the ribbon are the same kind as the black one on the indiegogo book, just gold-colored. ephemera sent me the wee hedgehog stamp last year, because it's a hedge and she loves me.
both books are eighty-eight pages, because that's just how long i make them in the absence of length guidance.
anyway, here it is.
the (very patient!) person who won it expressed a preference for purple and silver, so the cover paper is effectively lavender tissue paper with silver stars. i put solid purple paper under it so you wouldn't see the cover board through the cover paper. fortunately i already had gray ribbon for the bookmark, so i didn't have to go out and look for it. (my favorite place to get ribbon CLOSED, so i keep having to find new places to go.)
it's bound with, uh, waxed dental floss, because i like the way it looks. because i finished the book at wincon, i took all these pictures in the fandom lounge.
the recipient asked if i could do lined paper, which i figured out just for her. :D i think the pages might be a little too narrow-ruled, tho. i had the inside cover paper already, so i didn't have to go out and buy it either. i did have to find some beads, but i like bead shopping. altho the bead store near me has ALSO closed. >.<
i also made a book for the raffle, because i always make a book for the raffle, and this year it was won by beadslut. i love it when my friends win my books. :D
travel paper! with ticket stubs and all. i thought it was appropriate, considering a. pretty much everyone has to travel to wincon, and b. back in the day when it was winchestercon, all those train tickets and telegrams and evidence of us travel just screamed "spn!". also there's a stub for the wabash pittsburgh terminal railway co, and wincon was in pittsburgh this year.
i apparently did not completely sweep my floor before i took these pics, so please to be ignoring the white hair. >.< i shed like a collie in the summer.
and this is what the back looks like.
i have this really great brown thread that's unfortunately unwaxed, which means that it looks really nice as a binding but i have to stop every so often and wax it - i have a round of wax for just this purpose - otherwise it tangles if you look at it wrong and makes sewing the binding excessively difficult. but it was the perfect color.
made with love for a fangirl. :D the little bells on the ribbon are the same kind as the black one on the indiegogo book, just gold-colored. ephemera sent me the wee hedgehog stamp last year, because it's a hedge and she loves me.
both books are eighty-eight pages, because that's just how long i make them in the absence of length guidance.