Bound & Durable for Generations to Come

I received my box from Paper Source today!! Did I say what a wonderful store that was??? Their motto is "Do something creative every day." Not a bad idea. I had the best sales person help me over the phone. I need to get a letter off to someone about how wonderful she was.

Since my main reason for blogging is to pass a journal-of-sorts on to the kids, I've been looking into some type of archival book to put these posts in. Of course, I went right to Paper Source. I first went online to see what type of binding supplies they have. When I was in their store in Georgetown, I couldn't help but salivate over all the bookbinding materials they had--and I mean bookbinding in the true sense of the word. They carry the cover cloth, the page paper, the thread--everything you would need to bind your own book. I thought this over; and although I do want to do this one day, I don't think I should jump into a project of that magnitude until after taking a class of some sort. And so, I began looking at their albums. I found the correct size book I needed that would allow me to print out my posts on 8 1/2 x 11 stock paper. The book I chose, the Calvin Portfolio by KOLO, has plastic sleeves that I can slip my pages into and keep them fresh from the boys' greasy fingers for years to come--all acid free and archival quality.

With the help of their fabulous customer service department, I ordered the black linen album with two sets of refills, totaling 30 sleeves. I also had to order extender posts enabling me to fit the extra pages in. It all worked beautifully.







Today, my chore was to copy my posts to Word--one by one--and then print them. And that is just what I did.






The kid is so proud of the first volume; the teenager couldn't care less, of course. Perhaps generations from now, there will be a use for one of my recipes or just a wanting to look back and read some entries. It's there for the asking.