After seeing so many of the other completed book projects, I just knew that I had to do this task myself.
Having taken an unforgivably long hiatus from sf0, I felt the need to get back up to speed on some tasking.

I decided to look around my room for some ideas on what to use. I wanted to make something that would be symbolic to me. I change things so often in my life that I wanted the book to be somewhat impermanent as well.

I chose some CD sleeves that were left over from a package, and a plastic CD sleeve as the outer binding. The nice thing about the plastic sleeve is that it has a snap closure on it, so I know nothing will fall out of the pages when the "book" is closed.

So then, my first objective was to construct the book itself, finding content would come later! I also found a strip of self-adhesive argyle ribbon. Argyle is one of my favourite patterns, so I thought that it might make a nice addition to the outer design of my impromptu book.

I had to start by prepping the pink "pages" by cutting off part of the edge so that they would fit properly into the binding. After the edges were cut, I lined them all up as best I could and stapled them into the plastic case. The pages turned really easily since they were more of a fabric sort of sleeve. All-in-all there are 13 pages, not including the "extra" sleeve at the back of the book!

The back of the plastic case had a logo on it from the store where I work, and purchased the sleeves, so I decided to use the adhesive ribbon to cover that up. The ribbon was just the right width to cover up the logo perfectly! I used the whole strip of the adhesive ribbon to decorate the entire cover very loosely. One of the nice things about the plastic cover is that there's a little clear sleeve on the back. I decided to stick a card in there with the sf0 information.

Now it came down to filling the pages up. The first page, I decided should be something that means something to me, if even it doesn't mean anything to anyone else. The other pages I decided to fill with random things that I enjoy. Since they were originally CD sleeves, I decided to use some stickers from two of my favourite bands that I'd gone to see in concert in the summer. Since I'll be showing this book to others, I like to have websites in there, so I made sure to add the URLs of the sites if they weren't already on the sticker itself. Then I cut up a box from a little bunny that mitten had given me. I realized later that the individual cut-outs wouldn't stay where I wanted them to, so I ended up taping them to a piece of bright pink paper, and tucked that in there instead.

Since I have all of this bright neon paper, I decided to cut out squares (or semblances of them) to use for each page, and if I needed to tape, glue, or staple something to the pages, this would be the easiest way to do it, and add some pizazz while I'm at it.

The next page I made into a double spread. It reads one page to the next, from the top to the bottom, like any normal book might. They're lyrics from the song "Scream, Scream, Scream" by Ludo. It's a set of lyrics that has stuck with me ever since I first heard the song and they hold a deep meaning for me. They're very important to me, and I knew that I had to have them in the book. They read: "Would you finally see that all your lives are moments...all your words and closeness keep you here and human whispering tonight."
I realize also, in attempting to use a double-spread page, that the use of CD sleeves might not have been the best choice, because the flimsy plastic attached to the pink fabric would rip up a little at the open edges. But, it's trial-and-error after all, and so far it's working out really well, regardless of the little snags that keep popping up in assembly.

By no means is the tome finished -- I still have several pages to go, but I like the idea of having it rather open-ended. I must go scavenging to see if I can upturn some interesting artifacts or baubles to tuck into my personal little tome of awesome.