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Back again with #3 of adventures in bookbinding. (also posted at LJ).

When I first started learning about bookbinding one of the first things I learned was the importance of learning about and using the proper paper grain. "What?" you say. "Paper has a grain?" "I know, right?" I reply."Who knew?" I had no idea such a thing existed, but it does. For a more detailed explanation about what paper grain does, check out papercraftpanda's post HERE. Basically (aside from hand made paper) the wood fibers tend to align themselves all in the same direction during the manufacturing process.

For bookbinding you want the grain to run parallel to the spine for a reason. So if (like me) you're using letter sized 8.5 x 11"you want short grain that runs across the 8.5" side. Because when you fold it over from top to bottom (to make your folios for your signatures) you're creasing it across the short side, and folded edge will be your spine. (So the book block ends up being about 8.5 x 5.5" or a little less after trimming). In the beginning it was all a mystery to me trying to decide which way the grain of the paper, or cardstock, or book boards, were running, but now I usually tell by feel without any problem.

Do you really need short grain paper to make a book? Not necessarily, for the journals and art books I made for my grand kids I used regular copy paper (which is usually long grain), or cheap drawing pads from the $store.) But there are reasons (again check out the post I linked above, she explains them) that if you want a book you're going to keep and actually read, you really do want the correct grain. And personally if I'm putting all that time and effort into making a book I want to do it correctly. Here is an example of what can happen with the wrong grain: book on the left is short grain, book on the right (I thought was short grain, but obviously I messed this one up). See how the book on the right the pages won't stay down? I'm pretty sure the grain is running perpendicular to the spine instead of parallel. When I first opened it today, it wouldn't even stay like that, the pages all started slowly flipping to the opposite side until they all lay to one side (it was like it was possessed--creepy huh?)


(I don't know why these posted so small, but if you click on the pic it will go to a bigger version.)

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I'll be back soon with another post and more pics. The next book is what I like to "call the case of the disappearing title". I'll let you wonder about that til' I come back. LOL!

Hi all! It's been nearly awhile since I last posted and I only posted a few times last year.(pathetic, I know) Anyway, I'd like to post more often and since a started a new hobby last year, (I'd learned about hand bookbinding), so I'm going to try using my LJ and DW to chronicle my bookbinding adventures. (I just hope I can remember how to post pics--LOL!)

I first heard of fanfic bookbinding a few years ago through Nocturnus33 on LJ, who had posted pics of her own binds. She mentioned an online group (I don't remember the name now) where she learned how. It was on tumblr or one of the discord servers, or somewhere, but I've never caught on to navigating those places. So I started out watching YouTube videos, there's a ton of them out there--if interested in the process, just google bookbinding. For starting out I liked Sea Lemon, bitter melon, or DAS bookbinding, but there's plenty of other good ones.

Initially I mainly wanted to learn to bind so I could make hard copies of my own stories for myself. But I decided to start out just making some blank journals as practice, and to figure out what to do, and how to do it right.

So I decided to make some for my grand kids (there are 8 of them ranging in age from 4 to 14). I used a lot of re-used or inexpensive supplies like heavy cardboard to make the boards for covers, scrap booking paper to cover the boards, cheap sketch pads from the $ store for the younger kids to make their own personal "sketch" books, and just regular copy paper to make journals or diaries for the older kids.

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And I can now reveal my gift for cabepfir: All things Happen for a reason



Title: All Things Happen for a Reason
Author: madeleone
Recipient: cabepfir
Rating: M, for a bit of bad language,
Word Count: 33,827
Chapters: 6/6
Characters and/or Pairings: Severus/Hermione, Lucius, Draco, Luna, Minerva, Filius, Narcissa, Ginny,
Summary: It's eight years post war. 2006

Severus has been wandering the world searching for something: a new place, a new life, a new start, could he find what he wanted back where it all began?

Hermione has more than physical scars from the war. Although she teaches at Hogwarts, in her off time she lives a quiet life in a Muggle village under an assumed name.

Can two people damaged by their past find a new beginning?

Warnings: no physical violence, but a couple of possible emotionally distressing scenes
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, I make no money here
Author's Notes: This fic has drama, humor, not quite romance yet - but a possibility of it. And fluff, but also angst, (is there a category for flangst?) I would like to thank my beta delphipsmith for her exceptional beta skills and hard work. She is amazing! Any mistakes are my own because I tend to keep tweeking it even after it's come back from her. To my giftee cabepfir: Thank you for the wonderful prompts, there were two I was drawn to, and it was a hard choose. I hope you're pleased with how it turned out.

At some point soon I will also be posting it at my AO3.

I was surprised today when my hubby brought in yesterday's mail and there was a package for me. We've been getting so much stuff lately as I do most of my Christmas shopping online, but I noticed this label was different. Do you see down there in the corner? It says Owl Post. Oh my.



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Just an FYI, Aurette has started posting her fics at AO3.

As some of you may recall, three of her fics got booted from FFN several years back in one of their 'purges' and had been archived at another website, fanfic junkies, I think it was. Anyhow it has now disappeared and people were PM'ing her on FFN asking her to post the fics over at AO3. She said she remembered I'd sent her an invite 'a bajillion years ago…' and she'd finally dug it up and figured out how to sign in and post. So she's starting with those fics and I believe eventually plans to repost all her stuff there. (just to be clear this is a reposting of her old fics, not any new stuff).

Still, I was quite happy and surprised to get the notice from AO3 that she had posted there. So I checked back in my email archives, and sent her a note, hoping the addy was still in use (hard for me to believe, but it had been six years since we last corresponded). Luckily it was still active and she responded and explained the reasons she was posting at AO3. I added my 2 cents and said I think it is a much more stable platform than FFN, with no worries of fics being booted or the archive disappearing like so many of the smaller ones have.

Anyway, just want to pass this info on to anyone interested.

ETA: links to the three fics posted at AO3 so far: Free Fall, Side Effects, Practical Solutions

1) Brothers: 0
2) Sisters: 0
3) Children: 4
4) Tattoos: 0 but I've always want to get some sort of celtic symbol to honor my Irish heritage.
5) Piercings: 2, a hole in each ear
6) Been to an island: Yes, several, including Ireland, Great Britain, the Orkneys, Mykonos, some in the Caribean I don't remember the names of and a Michigan classic: Mackinac Island.
7) Flown on a plane: many times
8) Ridden in an ambulance: No, thank goddess!
9) Ice Skating: Yes, as a kid but I was never really good at it.
10) Been on a Cruise: Yes, two Caribean cruises and a Mediteranean Cruise.
11) Ridden on a Motorcycle: Yes, but just once.
12) Ridden on a horse: Yes on my friend's pony when I was a kid, and on guided rides a few times when on vacations.
13) Ridden in a police car: No.
14) Stayed in a hospital: Yes. For each of my kid's birth and once for gall bladder surgery.
15) Eye Color: Blue-ish.
16) Last phone call: my daughter (kid #3).
17) Coffee: Yes, always!!
18) Favorite pie: pumpkin.
19) favorite dog: The current canine love of my life is Quigley a mini/petite golden doodle (so essentially an expensive mutt). I don't know if it's just him or that breed in general but he's really the best dog ever (and I've been owned by at least ten dogs in my lifetime).
20) Favorite season: Spring
22) Favorite holiday: Either Christmas or Halloween, hard to choose.
23) Ever been handcuffed: Nope, not even for fun!
24) Favorite fruit: It's a toss up between black sweet cherries or blueberries.
25) Favorite color: green
26) Can you drive a tractor: Maybe, I've never tried. I've driven big lawn tractors (ie. riding mowers), not sure if bigger tractors work differently.
27) Can you drive stick: Yes, I could at one time, but I haven't in a long time so it might take me awhile to get the hang of it again.
28) Have you traveled by train: Yes,Hubby and I took a trip to Chigago for our 5th anniversary (42 years ago). Also a couple other fun vacation day trip train rides we took: the steam train The Jacobite AKA:The Hogwarts Express from Ft WIlliam to Mallaig, Scotland, and also took a steam train from Williams, AZ to the Grand Canyon. Both were fabulous.
29) Favorite food: Hard question, first choice I'd say ice cream but for real food anything with pasta.
30) Have you ridden in a helicopter? Nope.

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I am finally posting the fic I wrote for the last sshg_giftfest back in 2019 to AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33644014/chapters/83606734. two chapters are up and I will have the remaining three up within the next several days. It is of course already posted fully at https://sshg-giftfest.livejournal.com/96358.html, and I will eventually get it up over at ff.net. It was written for dreamy_dragon73 and the title is Charitable Endeavours.

Dreamy's prompt was: Lucius decides to go into politics. Severus thinks this is a really bad idea and ropes in Hermione to help dissuade Lucius. Does she agree? And do they succeed? It was a fun prompt to work with, so kudos to Dreamy for such an inspiring prompt and also huge hugs and thanks go to my lovely cheerleader morethansirius, and my amazing beta and sshg_giftfest mod delphipsmith.

As usual, I had meant to get this posted long ago, but at times I should be called the great procrastinator. LOL!

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Things I've been up to:

Mostly laying low, staying in, and keeping warm, what with all the cold weather and snow we've been having here.

But Mr. Madeleone and I did venture out last week to receive our first Covid vaccination, we had made an appointment in advance. I must say I was quite impressed with the efficiency of their set-up. The clinic was set up by Meijer (a large super-store chain here in the midwest, for those that might not know who that is) and they teamed up with SVSU, our local university. So there was signage set up directing us to the correct building and parking lot, with campus security and student volunteers directing everyone where to go. They even brought forms right to our car to fill out so we were all set to go when we got inside. There were no long lines or waits as I had read of in some places. Everything ran like clockwork: we checked in, verified our appt. time, got sent to a booth to turn in insurance info and got a preprinted info pack, then sent to a booth to get the vaccine, then to a waiting area to wait our 15 minutes to make sure there was no reaction, and then we were done. In and out in less than half an hour, and our appointment for the second shot is already set up for next month. We will feel more secure once we've gotten both shots as hubby especially has serious medical issues that put him at a very high risk.
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Sunday, day 20 yielded another duplicate (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed in getting another duplicate character when there are so many others to chose from). This time Ron Weasley arrived, luckliy in a Weasley sweater with a big R on it, (or else, it's possible I might have mistaken him for Percy, Charlie or BilL).

On Monday, day 21 Fawkes flew out and it appears it may be a burning day, as he is perched atop a pile of flames and he's very colorful and beautiful.

Today, Day 22 Finally Hagrid has joined the group, and Fang was ever so happy to have his master show up. I'd been waiting all along for Hagrid--surely they wouldn't leave him out--so I was as happy as Fang was to see him.

Well, only two days left, I wonder who those days will send me. I hope I get the other two heads of house, Flitwick and Sprout.

I was so pleased to find Luna behind door #17. She is one of my favorite of the HP characters so I'm happy she's been included.




So I'm hoping for Luna's head of House to follow her and show up tomorrow. :)

I think we may have entered an AU, because days 12 and 13 provided dupicate characters, although in different costumes. My son suggested perhaps they represent different books/movies. I thInk I shall go with the theory that they have used a time turner and showed up here at the same time as their dopplegangers.

Saturday, Harry showed up in his pj's holding up the invisiblity cloak. Sunday, another version of Dumbledore arrived (I actually like this one better). And today, the arrival of my first Malfoy--Draco.

I'm a bit disappointed to have repeat characters as I thought I'd have 24 different characters to play with. But it's all good I guess, now I have choices to switch in and out. ;-)

He's here! I cackled a bit and actually did a little dance when I opened the door and saw him through the packaging. He's just a cute as we suspected. (except... again with the tiny feet). (Sighs).

Notice how he ended up next to Hermione. I think she's checking him out. I swear she keeps glancing at him from the corner of her eye.



Here's a group shot too, although Fang managed not to get in the picture, he's probaly out looking for Hagrid.

None of us guessed right today. But toblass and mollywheezy came close with Ginny--at least she is one of the Weasley siblings. I'm fairly sure it's Fred due to the F on his Weasley sweater, but you know those tricksie twins, it could be George dressed as Forge. (Again with the small feet, to help him remain upright I had to cast a sticking charm on his feet too!)

I'm going to guess tomorrow's visitor will be George or maybe Gred.



I've got a second pic as we had a not-so-little visitor join our group today. It's Sven Svenson, a giant lumberjack from the North woods who was wandering by and decided to join our fun(co) little group temporarily. (He will eventually go to live with my daughter J who collects nutcrackers. Personally, they kind of creep me out, but she adores them and since I found him marked 25% off today he came home with me to await his chance to move to her house).

I also added new lights to the Charlie Brown tree on the right.  And have decided that the roly poly guy hanging out on the roof is actually Peeves in his Christmas Elf disguise.