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Saturday, July 13, 2013

accordian-fold 'granny nanny' journal

I just returned from the second of two trips to Texas to provide childcare for some of our grandkids. For each trip, I sketched in one side of this accordian-fold journal, which I bought from Cathy 'Kate' Johnson on eBay last year -- I call it my 'granny nanny' journal.

The first side was done in March when our eldest son took a group of students to Alaska on a mission trip and I helped out at home with his kids, Jayna, Josiah, and Judah. Now I have just returned from Texas again -- this time staying with our daughter's daughter, Mikala, while her parents were in Scotland.

side 1 - early March in Richmond, TX
side 2 - June in northwest Houston
This journal form especially worked well when Mikala wanted me to draw her new kitten, Oreo. At 9 months old, this Maine Coon cat is already as large as my over-sized 11 year old Maine Coon, Bearcat! We decided that he was too big for one page to contain him . . . . so he takes up 3 pages, along with sketches from her volleyball workshop and a day we picked blackberries:


Individual sketches can be seen on my blog, in the March 2013 and June / July 2013 entries. I also took a watercolor Moleskine with me --- haven't finished posting the sketches from it yet.
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11 comments:

  1. Kate (Cathy Johnson)July 24, 2013 at 6:31 PM

    I loved seeing this! You did such cool things with the little journal...

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  2. Vicky L. WilliamsonJuly 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM

    It was fun to work in, and that paper was gorgeous!

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    1. Kate (Cathy Johnson)July 26, 2013 at 6:54 AM

      Wasn't it?? I LOVED Fabriano's CP paper before the change...used it for years. Soft Press is similar, but not quite the same...

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  3. RosemaryAugust 2, 2013 at 9:58 AM

    Love this accordian fold! Your journals are gorgeous!

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    1. Vicky L. WilliamsonAugust 23, 2013 at 6:24 PM

      Thank you! Kate actually made the journal; I bought it from her.

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    2. Kate (Cathy Johnson)August 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM

      And isn't this odd, I normally get emails about posts to okay, and did not, a whole BATCH of them...I was just on Blogger's dashboard today and found a lot I'd never gotten a notice for. That's why you got a comment from 3 weeks ago.

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    3. Vicky L. WilliamsonAugust 23, 2013 at 6:38 PM

      I've noticed that Blogger has been very weird lately. But then, so has Facebook. Summer faeries working their mischief, I guess.

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  4. alissadukeAugust 12, 2013 at 5:18 AM

    ooh - very nice. I will have to talk to you about this as I have just started using an accordion sketchbook (not a Kate Johnson special)

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    1. Vicky L. WilliamsonAugust 12, 2013 at 8:16 AM

      LOL! Wouldn't it be awesome if we could talk sketchbooks together . . . face to face? I have longed to peek through your stack for a long time.

      Accordion-folds are so easy to make and lots of fun to use -- as long as you remember rubber bands or clips to hold the un-used sections together as you work. I love how other sketchers have taken full advantage of drawings spanning over 2 or more pages (I didn't do so as much as I would have liked).

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  5. Meera RaoMay 10, 2015 at 12:23 PM

    I love your journal ! What a special memory keeper :) I have used two Moleskine japanese album journal/sketchbooks and was looking for something better for watercolor and stumbled on your page. Could you give me the dimensions on your book and how many pages? Thanks!

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  6. Vicky L. WilliamsonMay 12, 2015 at 11:16 PM

    I'm sorry for not replying sooner, Meera! The notification went to my old email instead of my new one.
    The dimensions of this journal are 5 1/2 x 5 3/4". There are ten pages per side, counting the inside of the covers. Kate (Cathy Johnson) made this journal from Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper, 140 lb. I think --- my favorite kind of paper!

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