Wishing and Hoping

Here's a book I made the other day for a girl named...

 

 

I

likes it.  :)

For All You Lawyers and Friends of Lawyers

I got an order the other day for the scales of justice. Here's how it turned out.

I had to search for awhile to find just the right book--something to do with the law that had enough pages to fold. I ran across this one at a used book store.



Then I found some law books to make more. Know a lawyer who needs a nifty gift? Just let me know!

Here Comes the Bride...and Groom!



This nifty couple is headed across the ocean for a very special wedding.

The bride tells me that her colors are gray and kelly green and she chose this classic background for the endpapers.

I made this same duo when my baby got married, but I updated the font on the groom's book and I think it turned out beautifully.

I've said it before, but it's not easy photographing folded books. Half of the fun of seeing one is watching has the light changes as you walk around it. Sometimes a video does it better justice. See what I mean...

Mmmmmm...Good!

I like M's.

 

Tall elegant M's and ...

 

 

big, rounded M's...

and prim and proper M's...

 

 

Do you have a favorite someone whose name starts with M? Click here to order a book just for themmmmmm.

D is for Delightful

I like capital D's.

 

Because when you use them to fold a word like this...

 

or this...

 

...they look extra nice.

Reading With Scissors Goes Shopping

You know the best thing about weekends? Estate sales! I am addicted.

 

This week Captain America and I checked out the sprawling metropolis of Conroe to see what good things they had in store. Look what I got!

 

A couple of sacks of RDCBs with their shiny gold pages.

Some books that would be great for customizing.

Know a psychologist or psychiatrist who needs their name in this one?

Or how about this one for someone born in 1961?

Speaking of customization, here's a big book I did recently using a Texas A&M Directory of Former Students. I think it was a graduation gift. As I'm writing this, there's one still available on Etsy if you'd like to order a graduation gift yourself. It's not too late.

 

 

I found this old Spanish-English dictionary in Conroe, too. The pages are too fragile to fold, but I think it might make a nice vase for some book flowers. It's small, about the size of my palm and I like that it looks well-used.

 

I also got this sweet desk that is going to become the shipping department at Reading With Scissors. 

Wanna know why Captain America is my hero? Because he spends his Saturdays "driving Miss Daisy" as he calls it...


...and he repairs her new shipping department when it needs it.

<happy sigh>

Book Review: The Ghost Map

Title: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson
Format: Audible
Reading Dates: 6 Apr 2014 - 28 Apr 2014
Rating: ***1/2

I wanted this book to be a history book and it started out that way. The Ghost Map tells the tale of the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 and is a fascinating story of science and sleuth. But then author Steven Johnson kept going down these paths--paths of excruciating detail about Victorian London and how crowded it was and how much it stunk and how filthy it was. I wondered all the synonyms that Johnson used for excrement. (You'd be amazed!) It all seemed too much. I kept wanting it to get back to the story's mystery and how it was solved.

And then, when I reached the end, I realized that that WAS the story--the birth of the modern city and all the perils that it entailed and how we are still learning how to live in large, metropolitan areas together as we continue to move from rural areas. I guess next time I need to pay more attention to the sub-title.

The last chapter was really an informative one as Johnson explains the factors that affect modern urbanization and whether, in his opinion, we can survive them. I listened to this book on Audible, and now I wish I had that last chapter in print, so I could take notes. He's got some really good stuff in there. And I'd like to go back and review some of those very detailed sections that I thought were dragging the story and turned out to be the data points to Johnson's main thesis.

All in all an interesting book--I learned something both about cholera and about cities. Recommended.