The shop is closed while I finish up my new website. But meanwhile, there are other fun things happening:
In celebration of my upcoming birthday, I'm having a card contest! Send me your handmade birthday card, and my favorite one will win this hand bound coptic journal:
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Contest rules
1) Birthday cards can be in any medium but must be handmade.
2) The inside of the card must have my name in it ("Dear Sugene" or something of the sort). Spelling counts!
3) The inside of the card must have your email address and mailing address so I can contact you if you win. (It has to be inside the card because I'll probably throw away the envelope it came in.)
4) My birthday is April 21, so birthday cards must be in my mailbox by April 20, 2005. Postmarks don't count!
5) Mail your birthday wishes to:
The hand-bound mixed-page journal
The journal measures 4 5/8" x 5 13/16" and is filled with a wide variety of papers (music staff, maps, handwriting paper, graph paper, engineering paper, colored and patterend papers, parchment, watercolor paper, matte and glossy, specialty papers, etc.). Book opens flat so it's easy for you to write and draw in it. This journal is a prototype, meaning it's my first attempt and contains some minor imperfections I learned from. But rest assured that it's still quite lovely and functional!
I forgot to take a picture of the binding, but at least I remembered to take a detail picture of the beautiful stitched pattern on the cover:
