Live & Learn: Real Life Journals: Designing & Using Handmade Books

The second in AARP’s Live & Learn series celebrates building and keeping journals.
A custom-made journal can enrich a person’s life, and this new entry in the Live & Learn series helps readers design journals that enhance the experiences they’re chronicling. The unique format features an envelope attached to the inside front take in that contains a tiny book called Choose Your Own Bookbinding Adventure so readers can select the perfect journal for their purpose. Imagine a reader wants a travel journal that is portable and has both lined pages and blank ones to paint on. The booklet directs him or her to the instructions in the main book that clarify how to make that point design. There are instructions and gorgeous illustrations for 16 kinds of books and 10 take in styles. A comes off foldout establish on the inside back take in clarifies essential bookmaking basics. People who had personalized journals made for them by the leader share their process and their pages, and gorgeous photos and profiles of journal keepers inspire readers to make their own and start writing and drawing.