 everyone. Marianne Espresso Press Design. Thank you for visiting. Today we're gonna do a mini book, but first little show and tell on housekeeping. Thank you to my customers for their kind reviews and I know I'm probably gonna butcher your name. Ara Celle, I'm giving you an Italian C, although it might be Araceli, Araceli, I'm not sure, but thank you so much for mentioning my videos in your review and purchasing the products that you liked. You have been so supportive ever since you found my site. I appreciate it so much. Words can't even say. It's uplifting when, you know, sometimes you don't get the kindest comments. On my videos in particular, but when you see the people that are uplifting, they make up for all of it. And thank you, Marcy, as well. I'm glad you liked your product. Keep Nina Rabina in your thoughts and prayers from Mixed Media Emporium. She recently announced that she's got diagnosed with cancer. It's according to her, it's curable, so that's good news, but she has been having a hard time keeping up as one could expect. So just keep her in your thoughts and prayers. That's a group I belong to and I haven't been able to post since the craft show, but I hope to get back to it eventually here. And I wanted to mention, if you bought on Shopify, don't worry if you need a link to your product that might not be shown anymore. Everything is still archived and just shoot me a contact on there or an email and I'll resend you the link if you need it. So a little show-and-tell. I'm busy. Oh, I'm purging big time. Like last week went through my Christmas stuff. Two trash bags full. I'm just purging, but I was happy to be back to cards, happy to be back to my normal routine of just having fun and minimal pressure. I made a couple little cards. This one is for the kind craft mate at the craft show who gave me all these gorgeous little die cuts. And this one is to a friend who moved. I would probably compose this differently. It was just an idea I saw and decided to try it and things are a little out of proportion, but I'm keeping it anyway and it looks like that little spot needs some glue. But I'm just happy to be back. I decided not to do the line of cut bow line of cut today because my folder just arrived about 15 minutes ago and I knew it would. So I just sat down and made a little book last night and this is it. Very simple. I'm calling this a zipper closure because this is string I had on my desk. It's too, it drove me crazy trying to make a bow or a tie or something. So in the end I came up with that. And it's just a simple little book. I'm using up scraps and I'm gonna probably just use these for collage play. It has two little pockets and if I take this out the pocket is so, there we go. The pocket is so tight. It has to be loosened up a little bit. But very easy. Okay. So what you'll need are two 3 by 12 strips and one three and a quarter by four and a half for your cover. So as you can see I'm just using up paper scraps that I have in my basket and that's what I'm using and you're gonna need a scoreboard. These are so simple and once you get it you can make them tiny. Little tiny books. You can make them larger. You can add pages. Once you learn how to put the pages together. So you're gonna score both of these out. I'll put this on the screen as well. Two, four, six. This is three by 12. Score this one. Two, four, six, eight, ten. That's my husband walking around upstairs. And then, tell me I lost it already. Your cover, might as well do this at the same time, is three and a quarter by four and a half and you're gonna score it at two and one eighth and two and three eighths. So you're just gonna have one eighth in there to get a tiny little spine like so. Okay, these you're gonna fold accordion style and your first one is going to be going up and the thing you most want to pay attention to is that the folds are even like so. It's a little wonky. I just want to make sure everything's even. You can fold it one way, make sure they're even, then flip it back. Okay, up, down. So we have two that look like this with two mountains in the center. So what you're gonna do is these last two, you're gonna put them together like this. And what I did is I turned them into pockets. I was thinking of trying to side pocket today but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna stick with the program and fold that one over. Use this one for a tiny notch. That way both my notches are even. So those are gonna go in like that. And I guess I'll use glue. So let me get this here. And I'm gonna try to keep my glue in my shake-in today. Need some vitamins. And of course it's coming out like a river. I'm gonna wipe that off a little bit. Use that. Come on, line those up. Okay, there's my pockets. I can get my fold situated as pressed as evenly as I can. Okay, then you're gonna glue from here to here. Do not glue the ends. I'm just gonna use glue stick. I'm loving this glue stick either. Haven't checked if... and then you're gonna start gluing your folds. Okay, because this is long, I'm just gonna go half and half here on the table. But normally I had it spread out and did the whole thing. Whoops. There I go to Gloober. I'm gonna glue my folds. Press those down a minute. Covers a little off. Mostly you want your back and your front straight because these are the pages you're gonna glue to your cover. Okay, so there you go. One, two, three, four, and two little pockets. See if I can get something in there. It's gonna be tight. Since your little pocket is less than two inches, your little tank is gonna be about one and three-quarters. I made it three. One and three-quarters by three. Okay, your little cover. Oh boy, I need a new blade. So your little book is going to sit in the middle of there and your two end pages are going to be glued to your cover. So just start with one. This glue stick isn't bad. It is nice and creamy and and then push your book up to where you get your end paper kind of aligned with the seam of the fold. And then once you do one, you press in there and then just do your other. Do not glue your spine to your center. Weaken your spine and just lift it up a little bit. Actually, that's off. That's way off. Oh boy, don't rip. It's too close to the edge. It's not, what I mean is it's not centered enough. Let me do that over. Sorry, maybe this paper is a little thinner. My spine isn't as wide as the other one. That's better. I know I drank that coffee pretty fast, but holy crap. I need some B vitamins. I did not absorb B vitamins. I typically have to OD on them to keep myself. What's the word? Non-deficient. It's still a little off, but oh well, it's a little page. It's a little crooked. I don't want to lift it again. It is what it is. Okay, and I should have rounded my corners before I started. There you go. There's your little book. I get my corner rounder. I went to a concert on Sunday. Now, this normally wouldn't be the type of concert I would go to, but this was kind of special. Our church, the choir director and another parish who went to Juilliard and is a pretty accomplished pianist, restored our church organ that was, the original was destroyed in a fire in 1909, and this particular organ was purchased in 1910. It took him 14 years to restore this organ, so it was quite a labor of love. That page is a little crooked. It was quite a labor of love, and it was, he's still not completely finished, but it is restored back to its 1910 sound, which was unbelievable. 1676 pipes and block, handle. Who else? Handle, you know. Maybe some Beethoven in there. Now I'm having a hard time remembering, but the sound was unbelievable. 1600 and 76 pipes in 14 years, so my feeling was if someone is going to take that much labor of love to restore an instrument, I can go and show my appreciation for that, that type of dedication and talent. He plays four-handed compositions on the piano. He's internationally toured with, or no, he internationally studied with a famous Russian pianist, and it was unbelievable. I listened to it twice, so I thought you might like, it was just fabulous. I thought you might like my little zipper tie there, and that came about because this was laying on my table, so I grabbed it since this had green in it. Grabbed some more scraps, made some little tabs. Grabbed some more scraps, made some little tags, and I can't, I really can't stand. Well first of all, this baker's swine from Dollar Tree is ridiculously thin, so it was driving me crazy trying to tie a bow, and at first I had two little end signature embellishments on there, tied at once, didn't like that. This string started out at least 12 inches long, and finally I said, I'm just gonna make a zipper, so that's what I did. So that's my little zipper tie, and there's your little mini book. Again, once you get this, you can add more pages in an accordion. You can make them any size. Once you figure out how to do it, you can make a mini mini, you know, one by two, one and a half by two, cute little gifts to give to kids. Make little sticker books, little place, put a little pocket or belly band or something to hold your collage stuff, and these are just gonna be little play books for me. So there you go. Hopefully that was understandable. I wanted to show you a couple things here. If you would like to learn how to make these, a couple of things I've been doing. Paper clips, business in the front, party in the back. I generally don't like in paper clips. I've never found a way to get them, rarely found a way to get them not lumpy, and I've tried everything. So in my humble opinion, why not just decorate the back with something different? And this is the only thing I have truly found that hides a lumpy bumpy in paper clip, and that's fabric. So if you want to learn either of those, just let me know which one, and I'll do it next time. But that's that's my feeling about paper clips. Why not just decorate the back? This one you do have to put a cigar band. Otherwise it will come off, and it still can come off, but it's a lot less likely. If you have your little, I call them, cigar bands. So I don't I don't necessarily see a point in hiding the back. Just just do something else with it. Okay, that's 30 minutes guys. Let me know if you want those next week. I'll do them. But for now just have fun making mini books and using up your scraps. That's what I'm going to be doing as I clear out, try to clear out all these scraps from the craft show. I almost did a scrap buster from Gil, but goes to know Lee that is probably going to be a lifesaver for me, but I decided to do the little book instead. So okay. I'll see you next time everyone. Maybe I'll see you again this week. I'm not sure, but have a great week and thanks for your time. Bye.