Speaking of inspiration....

There is a wonderful fellow bookbinder named Sonya from Australia who owns a shop called Sago on Tuesdays who posted something wonderful on Facebook that I wanted to share:

6 of these Sunday Pace journals, each with the same cover but different spine colours, are on their way to Boston, for 6 best friends to use them to share and swap recipes, garden photos, 

thoughts, prayers, family photos and many other special tokens of friendship.

Personalized with custom bookplates, and a common poem about friendship on the first page.

How wonderful, and a joy to make.

The SUNDAY PACE journal is the most tangible, tactile, versatile and comforting journal I make. It is by far the most popular, with both men and women. I am trying out new ideas and formats, but this one is indeed perrenial. Check it out at Etsy, including the COLOPHON which describes the nittygritties about how it's made.

www.sagoontuesdays.etsy.com

*This is NOT my book. This is Sonya's. Isn't it beautiful?


So, speaking of inspiration, how inspiring is a set of 6 or so books for friends to swap? I sure wish I had at least 3 friends to something like this with.....

Searching for Inspiration

First of all, I want to express my great frustration with publishing this post - I had it all neatly written on my smartphone, but for some reason, it didn't upload to the internet. When I published it, it spun its wheels and never did anything...except keep me from ever seeing the post ever again in order to rewrite it. So this is what I get for not writing often enough that one lost post feels like the end of the world. And for ever trusting that Google had Blogger worked out on their own Android OS....


But apart from that, I'm going to try and recall as much of what I wrote before again.


Inspiration is an interesting thing. Isn't it fascinating that people create things every day, each vastly unique from others. I was reading one of Etsy's "Quit Your Day Job" articles and they ask shop owners where they gather their inspiration. More often than not, it's somewhere along the lines of, "Everywhere".


How can a collection of people be looking at roughly the same ocean, beaches, forests, night sky, experiencing the same bus ride, shopping trip or household chores, create the variety of things that they do? It's beautiful. I love it.


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