#ej2023

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Last summer I was lucky enough to get an ARC of Anna Marie McLemore's queer trans gatsby retelling, Self Made Boys. The cover was fairly bland in comparison to the published cover so giving this baby a rebind was one of my first binderary projects!

I of course didn't want to lose the original cover with the "exclusive" sticker on it so I made a little pocket in the back to keep it in.

The only thing its missing now is the title on the spine which I will hopefully be printing once I have access to a cricut at my local library and maybe some cute corner protectors.

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EmpowHER Junior 2023

By Nibita Sunar

For the second day of EmpowHER Junior 2023, Apsara ji and I were chosen as the buddies for the day. To me, the experience with EJ2023 was fun and I believe it has changed my life. I might learn more things after this ends but this program is and will be very important in my life. After joining EJ I got to learn and hear words I had never heard before. 

At the beginning of the session, Aagya ji, Prachi j,i and Sadhana Ji took us all to an open ground. They asked us to bring an object that resembles us the most. We followed the instructions and spread to find the object. Everyone brought their items and some of us even explained why they thought the item was like them. We got to know ourselves more that day. After this activity, I and all my fellow changemaker friends made the core values that we would follow throughout EJ some of them were: to be disciplined, and independent, lead the works we had at hand, to introduce ourselves without fearing, let others speak as well, teach our parents and friends the learnings we had and to live freely.

On the second day we learned to say sorry and thank you, before that we didn’t say these phrases even at times when we were supposed to. We would feel shy to say thank you or sorry to others, let them be our relatives, friends or teachers. Now we know we should not shy away from saying these words and their importance.

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in bloom

(inspired by this photo)

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you know, it’s more the being unknown

something something turns out the person who you’ve known your entire existence doesn’t understand you on a base level 😭

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another binderary project!

cool things about this baby:

💕 my first perfect bind!!

💕 used my handmade paper

💕 everything used to make it (save for the glue) was a recycled or repurposed material!!

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not me having feelings about crowley's fall from grace and turning it into an 8 hour hyperfixation

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my proudest book binding achievement so far!!!

the details:

9.5" x 6.5", thicc handmade paper, perfect bound

faux leather cover (that I found at the dollar tree???)

bee scrapbook paper from micheal's

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headrest for billionaires, 2023

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Chaotic quilt vibes 🧵🪡🪐

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a smol cat journal, because bitches love cats (im bitches)

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I literally designed this last night because my sticker place is having a 4th of July sale and apparently muskrat felt it and said, hold my beer, I'm gonna run my company into the ground EVEN FASTER

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best part of binding your own books is the ability to go hard on a theme 🍪

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just a lil paper porn for y'all 💕

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In my mushroom era 🍄

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I got high last night and made myself a magical boy.