my first book.

Todayi finished my first project for my bookbinding class. the assignment was to take a random quote from this old book of quotes and design a book around that quote without actually using it in the book. my quote was by some guy named george granville. basically, he was just some English creepster who was born into wealth and then ripped off some of Shakespeare's plays, had some crappy poetry, and at some point was quoted as saying "whimsy, not reason, is the female guide"
so that was the quote that i used to design my book. as you may have noticed, i'm not a huge fan of george granville and as i began planning how i would make my book, i kept getting annoyed at the quote. i mean, who is this granville guy to say that women are guided by whimsy and not reason. what does he even know? ugh, jerk. but part of the assignment was that we couldn't switch quotes, so i was stuck with it.
i decided to break down the quote and come up with key words for each part. it went something like this:
whimsy: whim, whim-wham, ridiculous notion, wander, whisk, trifle, giddy, fancy, fantastical, rash, sudden, impulsive, why not?, caprice, bold.
reason: reasonable, sensible, ordered, logical, centered, clear, precise, neat, smart, sense, feeling in control, understandable.
female: shoes, fashion, shopping, magazines, lipstick, barbies, glamour, trinkets, little boxes to put stuff in, jewels, tacky, crafty, yard, ornaments, flowers, perfume, doilies, pink, pastel, ribbons, nail polish.
please note that for my female key words, i was thinking more along the lines of the stereotypical extreme frilly girly type that i'm assuming george granville was talking about.
so, real briefly, here's what i did to make my book:
i began gathering pictures that represented women and whimsey as the female 'guide'.
basically i chopped up a few NYLON and Star magazines and then pieced them together on some paper i had leftover from some other project. it was looking a little um... high school collage, so i added some cool net-ish paper over the top to kind of tone it down and give it that 'ordered' look. next, i bound it together (using a saddle stich), made the cover, sewed some details with my sewing machine, other than some technical things i'm pretty happy with how it came out. and um... yeah, here are some pictures!

i had a lot of fun making this book, so much fun, that by the end i wasn't even mad at george granville for saying that women are guided by whimsy! in fact, i may even agree with him.