Little Red Hen Book of Chicken Recipes

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If you are looking for a new way to share recipes, a clever wedding shower or hostess gift, or a project to simply do for your own organization and enjoyment, have I got an idea for you! Recently, I have become interested in bookmaking. No, I’m not playing the ponies, I am physically creating books. I hope, one day, to get very good at it, if for no other reason than to justify the purchase of all of the book making tools. In the meantime I have started out small. This is a project that you can do without having any experience or equipment at all.

This is what’s known as a cinch-bound Little Golden Book junk journal. I have a cinch binder, but you can do the same kind of thing by simply punching holes in the book cover and holding it together with binder rings. I have done that with my garden journal for this year because I want the opportunity to add more pages to it, and that can’t be done when a book is more permanently bound like this one.

My favorite book when I was a little girl was The Little Red Hen, so that was the Little Golden Book that I chose. I cut the binding off, but kept all of the pages intact, and the entire story is scattered throughout the book, now full of coffee and tea-dyed papers, scrapbook papers, lined paper, vintage ledger paper, recycled window envelopes and folders, dictionary pages, and more, each page of which is now waiting for further embellishment.

These pictures reflect what I have done thus far. As I create new pages, I will share those with you, so you can get an idea as to how to make one of your own. Because of the title, I decided to use this as a book that holds all of my favorite chicken recipes. Cute, no?

More to come!