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A Hobby for Profit?

Seeing as my favorite hobby of bookbinding is an uncommon one, I have recently been tossing around the idea of whether or not to try selling them.  I mean, seriously.  If I made jewelry I could always wear it, but how many blank books do I really need?

Here are some pics of the most recent (and largest) book I made:

As you can tell, I made the book to be a picture diary.  I created it to write my Japanese journal in because, just in case I write a bunch of Japanese garble, the picture will put some meaning to it.  This was motivated by the intensive intermediate Japanese class I’m taking right now.  The teacher assigned the weekend homework to be journal writing.  And so…the book was made!

The only problem with it is that the teacher made such a big deal about it that I was highly embarrassed.  I never could remember how to deflect compliments in Japanese.

E-mail is Up Again

While you probably didn’t know, or care, that my e-mail was experiencing technical difficulties, I have now not only set it up again, but have my iPhone set up to receive incoming mail (trust me when I say that setting up anything that falls under the “other” category involves deep magic for me *or a video tutorial from my web hosting serice*).

Anyways, it would be doubley lovely if I could get an e-mail or three from my reading public (to test out everything, of course).

Once again, the address is charity (at) teasmartgarden (dot) com.

And bon voyage to my horrible track record of checking my account every couple of months!

Wee~!

Before I’m Thirty: THE SEQUEL!!!

Alright.  So via Kristen’s request I am now adding Visit Hawaii (to See Kristen), and Visit Wherever Emily Happens To Be (Probably Chicago) to my list of things.

I’m also going to add Surf.  Rather, Try To Surf But Instead Just Get Eaten By A Shark.

Does anyone else have any good ideas for things to do?  Realistically, hopefully.  For instance, as much as I want to eat at a yatai (food stall) in Fukuoka City, it’s just not going to happen.

I’m pushing it already with Hawaii, Kristen!

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Unless you’re paying, of course.  I’ll leave that decision up to you, friend!