Around the same time I went through my baby-album-making frenzy, I also finished up this small photo album I made for my husband. I made the book block months ago but only got around to casing it in recently. The album is about six inches square with 10 pages of black Arches Cover paper which are glued together. I’m not thrilled with the book block, but it was an experiment. I like the dramatic cover though.

At some point I will fill it with small black and white photos. But that’s for another day.

A couple weekends back I got into a bit of an album-making frenzy. I’d purchased a number of album blocks from Hollander’s in two sizes, and I spent a day just cutting bookboard and book cloth and Japanese papers, and another day gluing cases together and casing in the album blocks. The result was five albums (three large, two small) and a matching journal for one of the large albums.

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