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Custom Binder Travel Journal

Introduction: Custom Binder Travel Journal

Choosing a book for your journal can be a challenge. Instead of picking from all the overpriced leather-bounds at the bookstore, create your own journal that is far more versatile and one of a kind.

You'll need a book to begin the process. You can choose a pretty book with an interesting cover, or customize your cover with an old unattractive book. If you like the book you've chosen and want to preserve the cover, simply skip to Step 8. If you want to design the cover yourself, read on.

Step 1: Create Cover Art

Before you can make your journal, you'll need cover art. I created mine in Adobe Photoshop, but you can use other programs, select a printable image, or simply find some pretty paper. However, to recreate the cool effect in my cover art, create a layer with an image or color you like. Add another layer above your image with one of these textures by Kelly Reed from Creative Market to add depth and interest. For the color variation, change the texture layer's type from "normal" to "hue." I chose to create a harlequin pattern with two layers and used a different wood texture on each layer.

If you'd like a title, create it separately and make sure the size is appropriate. I created mine 2"x3" and then moved the layers into a file that's 8.5"x11" so it would print the appropriate size after I sent it to be printed.

Print two pages of your cover art and your title. I recommend using a high quality paper, but the cover art shouldn't be thick like cardstock. You can, however, use cardstock for the title. Regular printer paper is okay, but is more likely to wrinkle or tear while gluing.

You could also create cover art for the inside cover and spine, but I opted to use scrapbooking paper.

Step 2: Materials

2 pieces of cover art

1 piece of paper for inside cover

1 piece of paper for spine

printed title on cardstock (optional)

ring binder

old book that is thick enough to hold the binder

stiff paintbrush

sandpaper (if your book has a slick cover)

X-acto knife

page pockets (optional)

bone folder

2 brads or rivets

Step 3: Prepare Book

Cut the pages out of the book by cutting along the first page. Be careful not to cut the spine. Flip it over and cut out the last page.

If your book's cover is slick like mine, sand off the shine. If it has a plain paper or woven cover, there's no need to sand.

Step 4: Gluing Cover

Apply glue to your cover and spread it with a paintbrush. If you used regular printer paper, I recommend applying glue to the whole cover before adding your cover art. When I did it one half at a time, it started to get wrinkly while I was adding glue to the other side.

Smooth with a bone folder.

Repeat on the back cover.

Step 5: Cut and Wrap Edges

Fold the corner of the cover art over and press gently so you can see the impression of the corner of the book on the paper.

Make a small straight cut at the top of the thickness of the book, then cut diagonally away from the corner. Trim off any excess. The flaps only need to be about 1.5" thick.

Apply glue to the longest flap and spread with a paintbrush.

Press down the corners with your fingernail as shown and wrap the flap over the edge.

Repeat on all the other flaps.

Step 6: Spine

Measure the spine. You'll want some overlap, so cut a strip of paper about a half inch thicker than the exposed spine. Use a ruler to ensure a straight cut. I used a piece of textured cardstock.

Apply glue to the back of the paper strip you cut and press it onto the spine of the book. Use a bone folder to press it firmly into the creases. It is very important to make sure the book still bends like it should, so once you've pressed the paper into the creases, pick the book up and close it. This will show you any places you missed or need adjusting while the glue is still wet and the paper is flexible.

Apply glue to the edges of the strip and fold them over the edge. Again, press firmly into creases and close the book to make sure it is firmly attached while still retaining proper movement.

Step 7: Inside Cover

Cut a piece of paper to fit the inside of your book cover. I used a piece of scrapbooking paper.

Apply glue to the freshly cut piece of paper and press it in place with a bone folder. Start at the middle and work your way to the edges. Again, make sure you press firmly in the creases and fold the spine while wet.

Step 8: Inside Spine

Cut a piece of chip board that fits loosely in the spine.

Wrap the chipboard in the same way you wrapped the cover.

Note: If you've skipped the first 7 steps because you like the cover your book came with, I recommend using pages from the book to cover the chip board spine. You can even use the matching paper from the inside cover. Oh yes, and the wrapping process is in Step 5. Once you've cut your chip board and paper for covering, go back to see how to properly wrap it.

Step 9: Binder

Center the binder on the chipboard spine and mark the holes.

Drill on your hole marks.

Attach binder with either the brads that came with the binders or rivets. Rivets are more secure, but not necessarily worth the cost if you don't have them lying around.

Step 10: Affix Binder

Apply a generous amount of glue to the bottom of the chipboard spine. If you used brads, this glue will help secure them.

Press the binder into the spine. Use clamps if you've got them. Don't press it too tight, however, or you'll make impressions in the spine.

Step 11: Finishing Touches

Add the sleeves and glue on the title.

Step 12: Enjoy

This kind of journal is great because it will hold anything you can put a hole in or put in a sleeve. These images are a sneak peak of my upcoming instructable that elaborates on how to use a book like this as a travel journal. Stay tuned.

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Jewelry Travel Organizer

by Rena Klingenberg. © 2003-Present Rena Klingenberg. All Rights Reserved

A jewelry travel organizer is easy to make with some clear plastic pocket pages and a 3-ring binder.

Jewelry travel organizer made from plastic pocket pages and a binder

These pages are actually designed for displaying collections of coins, postage stamps, baseball cards, postcards, etc.

But they’re also ideal for displaying or organizing jewelry.

Pocket pages are usually made to be very sturdy, archival quality, and acid-free. They’re also completely clear, so your jewelry is perfectly visible through the plastic.

A binder for your jewelry travel organizer

Since pocket pages come 3-hole punched, you can simply put them into an attractive binder.

I would use a binder with a built-in zipper around the edge to keep the dirt out and your jewelry in.

You could even decorate the binder cover to customize it for your jewelry business, to make it a really professional looking jewelry travel organizer.

Common pocket page configurations that work well for jewelry:

* 20-Pocket Coin Pages pocket size: 2-1/8″ x 2-1/8″

* 9-Pocket Baseball Card / Trading Card Pages (shown in the photo above) pocket size: 2-5/8″ x 3-5/8″

* 4-Pocket Postcard Pages pocket size: 3-3/4″ x 5-1/2″

A portable jewelry display you can carry nearly anywhere

You can actually fit quite a lot of inventory into a three-ring zipper-binder.

You could even place each jewelry item into a mini ziplock bag before putting it in the pocket, to keep it shiny longer.

To show and sell your work, you can simply pull your jewelry travel organizer out of a backpack or tote bag – and flip easily through the clear plastic pages.

Rena Klingenberg

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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