Craft Night!

So Ed decided that he only wanted to read it if it looked like a book. He promptly made a list of all the things he would need for DIY book binding, went into town and bought the equipment, got home and he was in instant project mode.

There was lots of printing but the word document was made into a PDF and the printer and the computer had a little conversation that organised all the pages into the right order, so that they could be printed in eight sections.

Ed getting all geeky with the printer

Our eight different sections

This is the point that I got really involved and forgot to take any pictures BUT the next things that happened were really exciting. I folded all the pages for an hour (well that's not exciting,, but the rest is I swear), then put holes in the fold of each of the sections with a cool tool from Ed's toolkit, then sewed the sections together. At that point I got a little bit too involved and for some reason he listened to me, this resulted in having some pointless holes all the way through the book because I didn't trust that the tried and tested method would hold it together...plank! Then we stuck all the sections spine down to a piece of material with flappy bits either side and stuck them onto the cover we'd made earlier (Blue Peter eat your heart out!).

I'm sure that my limp explanation above has given you absolutely NO real insight into how it was made but here's the link that helped with our crafty night: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-bind-your-own-Hardback-Book/

LOOK WHAT WE MADE!

It's a book

Still a book...	Super cool front page
Bottom left... yeah that's my monogram!	The middle of the book.

We also tried to make marbled paper for the opening pages, but with no inks (because they're reeeaaallly expensive), so we tried using oil paints watered down with linseed oil:

The paint just sank to the bottom!

It didn't work, we just made a mess.