It snowed a lot last night and this morning. To show how much I'll do a snow shoveling stream this morning. Later I might have to plow the driveway just so I can get in and out.

To my surprise, it has been about a year and a half since I last worked on a book cover. At least that's what my spreadsheet shows. Perhaps it has a few missing lines. The book being worked on in this video is a special journal made for my parents' cabin. I am hoping to visit soon, and the current journal is completely full. I have been working on this journal for a long time, but have put off finishing it until now. The last step of gluing the cover pieces together and then attaching the text block was once the most stressful step of bookbinding. It became less stressful for several years after creating an ironed-out process. In this rare case I returned to experimentation, uncertainty and stress. Since the book is large I dreamed up varied spine engineering to hopefully support its extra weight. Everything was going smoothly with the cover fabrication until the very end. Things didn't work out quite as I hoped, and it was a near disaster. I rolled with the punches and produced a result that will hopefully turn out acceptable. It was a good learning experience, and I'll have some new ideas to try next time. This is a livestream bookbinding session from May 2, 2022 on Glimesh. Uploaded here for archival purposes. https://glimesh.tv/PhLo - find me occasionally streaming here. Glimesh is a very small community currently, but I'm hoping it will eventually grow. It's a great open source platform with awesome, simple ideals.