….some of these might resonate with you 🙂 Note – this post does not have any pro tips or advice or hacks. It’s meant to illustrate some of the odd behavior you […]
If you’re a new online store owner who’s just starting out….
Have you recently bought a product and really liked it? Let the maker know!
If you’re like a typical customer, you buy something, and unless it’s a commodity product (eg: say toothpaste), you tend to either like what you’ve bought, some times you even love it, […]
Pocket notebooks – So cute and the power of constraints
I think we’ve all heard some version of the saying that constraints can be great for creativity. I was faced with a constraint of sorts recently – what do I do with […]
Moonlight
“We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. May we not probe it, pry into it, employ ourselves about it, a little?” The Journal, Henry David Thoreau When reading works such […]
5 tools that will help you do bookbinding a lot faster
Making a book using your hands takes time and a lot of patience. There are a lot of steps involved, and each step needs to be executed with a certain level of […]
A hobby can help you during tough times
There are times when one or more things are not going well in our lives. I went through a time like this recently. You put on a brave face, and try and […]
DIY books – How to avoid your book boards from warping using “drumming”
As a bookbinder-in-the making, an issue that I struggle with when making hard cover books is the problem of the book boards warping after the book is allowed to dry for a […]
What to do when your product has a small defect or an experiment does not go as planned
Does this happen to you? You painstakingly work on your product, paying attention to all the small little details, trying to make sure that you get the little things right. And then, […]
New Zen Scribbles journals ready for purchase!
I’ve been on a bit of a journal making marathon over the last few weeks. I source leather for my journals from a furniture designer on Etsy. He usually sends me large […]
The joy of sitting in a cafe and…..doing nothing
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 […]
Sonali Mangal 