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BANG FOR THE BITE
If 10,000 Biters opt for a 100% recycled journal rather than a nonrecycled one, we'll avert the weight of 73 writing desks in virgin paper.
COCKTAIL FACT
Fake diaries of Hitler (including implausible sentences such as "I have violent flatulence") sold for about $4 mil to a German collector in 1981.
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What are a Biter's deepest, darkest secrets?
The Bite
Wouldn't you just love to know. Write down your own innermost thoughts in a good lookin' and sustainable journal - but don't hide it under your mattress, 'cuz that's the first place snoopers look.The Benefits
- More trees. Americans already use more than 90 mil tons of paper products per year, so go with recycled versions made from materials other than virgin wood.
- Pretty papers. Journals made from alternative (and sustainable) fibers like kenaf and lokta bark are just plain better lookin' than your average spiral notebook.
- Getting stuff off your chest. Journals are a whole lot cheaper than visits to the shrink.
Personally Speaking
Heather's kept a journal since she was fifteen and has a personal blog online. She won't give us the address, but you can check out a page from the past in today's blog.Wanna Try?
- Scribe's Delight Saddle Leather Journals - customizable journals made from recycled saddle leather ($39-$79).
- Lama Li Travel Journal - handmade in Nepal from renewable lokta bark; in five colors ($22).
- Boku Books - journals and notebooks made from recycled paper and kenaf fiber ($9-$20).
- Papergeist - choose from tons of vintage cover designs; made with wire-bound, post-consumer recycled paper ($16).
- Lart Cognac Berliner Book - a combo journal with room for sketching, list-making, and even origami; printed on recycled paper using veg inks ($12).
Jan 17,2008
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As Promised…
She wouldn't share the juiciest bites, but here's a real, live page from Heather's journal.
-Toshio...off to reveal some dirt...
Biter Comments...
I make my own journals by using found objects like those "70s" embossed leather purses, or old game boards. I studied bookarts in college and teach classes in my small town in MN. Now all my hardcore hippy friends drop off old games or anything that "Heidi would know what to do with this" stuff. Once you learn to bind journals, you'll never have to buy one again! (except the paper).
Remember on the first Lord of the Rings movie in Frodo's house there was that big heavy looking monster of a journal. That is what a Deep Dark Secrets journal reminds me of. I found one of those big journals on the Renaissance Art site here:
http://www.renaissance-art.com/catg87/category.aspx
They are 11X14 and 16X16. They also have a lot of smaller stuff but I am saving up for one their Books of Unusual Size.
Regarding the recycled saddle leather books. Leather is heavy. That might be attractive to some people, but I've found that the lighter something is, the more likely I am to actually carry and use it. I had a handmade leather bag for awhile, and I found that some people got extremely covetous of it. I ended up giving it away. That was back in the 60's, though. If I had one now, I'd constantly feel compelled to say "it's recycled!". Wouldn't that get kind of tiring after awhile?
A friend of mine turns old books or record albums into journals, notebooks, etc.
Based in Halifax, Canada
http://www.recoverjournals.ca/index.php
ok, ok. I know the blog isn't for advertising- but my friend makes some awesome journals out of reclaimed fabrics and leather, I just have to post the site.
http://www.petraguenthner.com/
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Posted by: davidconnell | January 17, 2008 at 07:48 AM