This has to be the ugliest book cover I have ever made. It was my first time to ever make an embossed cover and use Modge Podge, which I will never use again. Then the burgundy color for the cover not only doesn't photograph well, it doesn't look that good in real life. The highlights are copper. The letters are cut from leather and also the metallic copper color. I have never used a ribbon to tie a journal shut before or used cheesecloth as head and tail bands. But other than that it was a win. The inside has turned out fine. The purpose is to house all of my collected tea ephemera.
I did crochet edging on one page.
Inside I included two woodblock reduction carvings I did in 2009. The blue one is on rice paper. The teal one is on printmaking paper.
Also I put in one of my old watercolors of a stack of my teacups.
The first page in the book is a paper weaving I did 20 years ago. Also included in the journal are blank tea-stained papers for notes, maps, antique tea labels, tea bag tags, and tea envelopes or packets, ribbons, and other packaging from tea shops I have collected.
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