I moved to San Francisco recently. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for a long time, mostly in Mountain View though. I moved to SF about a year ago. I’m still exploring […]
New to bookbinding? Here are 7 simple tools that can make your DIY leather journal look really good!
I love the feel of a nice leather journal 🙂 When you start out in bookbinding, making a gorgeous leather journal is really what you’re hoping you’ll be able to make one […]
Take the donut
I’ve recently been reading “The Art of Asking” by Amanda Palmer. It’s been on my bookshelf for a loooong time and somehow I never picked it up until only last week. As […]
The economics of selling handmade journals
Hmmm…..so what are the economics of selling handmade journals? Tl;dr Not great, especially if you’re making them in the US! Let’s use a simple leather handmade journal as an example. Something like […]
Making remote handicrafts accessible through handmade journals
As someone who hails from India and was exposed to the huge variety of gorgeous handicrafts found in many different parts of India, and as someone who has developed an interested in […]
So far….it’s crickets on Etsy
So I decided to try my hand at selling some of my handmade journals on Etsy. Suffice to say that so far the experiment has not yielded great results 😀 Here’s my […]
Sonali Mangal 