Bound — Goldfinch & Honeybee

When Life Gives You Lemons cover.

When Life Gives You Lemons cover detail opening flap.

When Life Gives You Lemons cover page.

When Life Gives You Lemons final page.

When Life Gives You Lemons - Booklet

Fall 2016

When Life Gives You Lemons is a book a wrote, illustrated, designed, and bound myself. The book goes through recipes using lemons and how those recipes corresponded to certain times in my life. A very personal story of growing up and coming of age in the kitchen and how cooking and food brings us closer to our loved ones.

Bookbinding Boxed Kit

Fall 2015

This kit contains everything that any beginner might need to learn the history of and how to bind books. Included with the kit are a hand-bound book (printed on rice paper) that outlines the history and most common methods of binding; a poster that covers a brief history of bookbinding; a second poster with basic bookbinding tools and descriptions of their uses; and the rudimentary tools and materials needed to bind books, including needle, thread, beeswax, neutral pH glue, and rice paper.

Digital files of posters included in the bookbinding kit

Both posters printed on Japanese rice paper and hand bound booklet

The instructional booklet’s fold-out page contains similar information on one page and includes the bookbinding chart. The instructional booklet incorporates charts that illustrate ideas outlined in the text.

Digital files, including a fold-out page of the booklet and step-by-step instructional pictures

This booklet cover exemplifies the twine tie closure

Alice Waters - Booklet

Spring 2015

Alice Waters is an innovative, San Francisco-based chef who promoted a garden-to-table lifestyle and the Edible Schoolyard Project in the 1970s. This booklet was handbound and has a twine tie closure.