Nah finally. It's been a long time since I post about something that I created not just telling this blog readers about something that I like, because that's what the early purpose of this blog. As a sharing media of the crafts I make.

One thing that makes me kinda lazy filling up this three-years-old blog is that some people I follow who have a very interesting blog seems to have lost their interest in blogspot. Every body is tumblring right now, but I still prefer a blog than a tumblr, because in a blog you rarely repost something and really write for your blog. A blog shows the personality of the writer more. So please keep writing, and I am saying this because even I rarely post something in blog I always searching for inspiration to fill my blog.

So here it is something that really satisfied me when it was finished. I love books, and being able to make one made me proud. Actually it's not book, it's notebook. Eheheh.

It all began when I found some of my college friends made notebook themselves in the last semester. Since I'm studying in the department of architecture which doesn't require much writing, a notebook is enough for a semester or even more. And when I got the result of last semester GPA which wasn't satisfying, one thing that popped up in my mind was: I have to make a notebook on my own to help boast my academic performance.

At first I intended to bind the book using spiral wire. I used the duplex leftover from my college assignment as the material for the notebook cover. Since I took a sewing lesson about six moths ago, I have some beautiful fabric left, and I used my favourite fabric to cover the duplex. I brought the finished decorated cover and the papers inside to the printing office but none of them even the big ones refused to bind my notebook using spiral wire. The said the material I used for the cover was too thick and the fabric finishing made it harder. And the worst part was they refused without even trying to put it on the machine. Frustrated, I went home but I still believed that I would get this notebook done, whatever method I used to bind this notebook.

I remembered about a year ago I found some book binding tutorials on youtube, but I didn't try it. And yes I found a lot of youtube tutorial videos which explains step by step to bind a book. But I had to be careful choosing which binding style I used, because I had always wanted a notebook which can openly full, like a sketchbook binding, so I can draw and write freely.

So my choice fell on the Coptic Style  Book Binding which bind notebook the way I wanted. I watched these two different videos (you can check this one and other out), because I thought these videos complete each other. After three days in the making, this beloved notebook was finished, and I was really proud about this!

I used sketch book paper inside, and I love to fill this book using gray pen colour

The left side of the book shows how the woven thread bind this book, and I think that's what make this notebook unique. And you can see that this notebook contains two different papers

You can see from the last picture that this notebook contains two different kind of papers and they have a little bit different colour : the standard Kiky Sketchbook, and the other is Canson water colour paper. I combined these papers in one notebook because I don't have to carry two different books everywhere. Anyway lately I loose my hobby of sketch journaling, I rarely fill my journal anymore. Maybe combining two function in one book, can make me sketch again.

Everyday when I get this my notebook out from my bag to be filled with, I always remember the intention I had in the making. This book is a representative of hopes I had early this semester, quoting an Islamic term, being an istiqamah learner.