Handmade Book & Book Handbag

*There were several additional paragraphs at the beginning of this post, the product of brain fry & lack of time for editing. If any of you read them while this was saved in drafts, let's just pretend it didn't happen, k? Thanks. :o)

Mount Hope: Grave Thoughts, by Elizabeth Rotchford-Long:

http://www.elizabethrotchfordlong.com/images/book1.jpg

Sorry for the link and not a photo. I read the fine print after the fact and got nervous (see below; not any form, for any reason!)

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The shape first caught my eye, though it took a few seconds and the title to realize it’s shaped like tombstones. It looks pretty crafty & difficult, which I’m sure it actually was, but it’s an accordion style book, and I associate accordion style with being, well, more ease than grief. I am aware that this association may be tested and broken in the future, perhaps semi-near future.

In the description of the book’s make-up is “gelatin printing” & “solvent transfers,” neither of which I’m familiar with and certainly aren’t among my craft supplies. But they seem neat, and I have an idea of what they are as I know what gelatin, solvents, and transfers are, so I think I can see where they’re utilized. It’s very nice.

The following isn’t advertised as a book, not in its current form. However it really stuck out to me in Google Images. I’ve never seen this done before and it seems both extremely genius and...something else I can't put my finger on. I think it’s funny because we could argue that this is, in fact, a book. I mean, who knows what’s inside!

*Update: I took this image from another blog (www.trashionista.com) but after visiting the Etsy site where it's actually sold I figure I should share it, too. SpoonFulofChocolate