Cereal Series Part II

The Premium Corn Flake with beet sugar Book. (It says so on the front cover.) This is a book from my Cereal Series. It has coptic binding, cereal box covers, seven signatures of six folios each for about 168 unlined pages. It's a blank notebook suitable for gift giving.

It's not so big (B6) and fits nicely into a jacket pocket. The one problem is the back cover is on upside down. Or not. Maybe it's art. 

To your right, the Kellogg's Genmai Book (Brown Rice Flake Book) - on the left; and the orange Premium Corn Flake with Beet Sugar Book - on the right. The Premium Corn Flake is B6 size while the Genmai Book is B5, if that makes any sense.

Five Yellow Notebooks

Five yellow notebooks all with coptic stitching (one almost done well), book board covered in yellow, red inserts for a touch of flair and endpapers made of photos I took from around the neighborhood. A very big neighborhood. Pictures of cherry blossoms on the inside front cover. And a temple in sepia on the inside back cover. Unless you turn the notebook over, in which case they are the opposite.

What did we learn from all of this? I learned how to do coptic binding better and tighter. The whole purpose behind making five (five green notebooks below and five yellow ones now) is Practice. Practice. And more practice. Each one seems to be getting a little better each time (except the one where I ripped the hole too wide near the edge and screwed it entirely. Oh, well, we learn and live.)

Ready for one more picture?

Here is in the inside of the back cover. This is a temple in Kanazawa at dusk, although this is a sepia and slightly Photoshopped for color adjustment. A famous writer lived here as a child and it's half a temple and half a museum of his life.

Good fun in making all five notebooks. The last one is the one with the funky cover which you can barely see in the top photo. All the others have nothing on the cover except yellow.