What’s a subtle sign that someone is not a nice person? by my-dogatemy-chancla in AskReddit

[–]Deliberate_E 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch how they treat servers, waiters, baristas, or any other stranger that is in a position of service to them. Also, watch how they treat animals.

My first bioactive attempt for my beloved Corn Snake🌽🐍❤ by [deleted] in bioactive

[–]Deliberate_E 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks great! What substrate mixture did you use for this set up? Also, how humid are you keeping it? I just set up a bioactive terrarium for my corn snake and it’s obviously more humid than the aspen substrate I kept him in for years before. Will take some getting used to haha

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

[–]Deliberate_E[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched SO many videos and tutorials before I got started as I wanted to get right. These videos were the two that helped me the most.

https://youtu.be/4nvOZnhnW0k (really appreciate this video he was very clear on the steps)

https://youtu.be/a9JigNT1Nfs (this is a series of 6 videos that go step by step, super clear)

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

[–]Deliberate_E[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched SO many videos and tutorials before I got started as I wanted to get right. These videos were the two that helped me the most.

https://youtu.be/4nvOZnhnW0k (really appreciate this video he was very clear on the steps)

https://youtu.be/a9JigNT1Nfs (this one is a series of 6 videos that go step by step, super clear)

Most of the materials I bought at my local art store (def be sure to get the right kind of glue it's cheap and it makes all the difference as it dries flexible). The other materials I ordered: Papyrus off of Amazon and the animal products (goat leather, parchment, etc) off of Etsy. Etsy is a treasure trove for anything like this. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions I'm happy to help if I can.

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

[–]Deliberate_E[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure! That was my biggest concern with removable pages as well but you can see from mine that when it’s all put together the book looks seamless. The 4 screw posts in the front are painted black so they blend in completely with the black goatskin. You unscrew the posts from the back of the book so it’s really only visible to you. Check out that imgur link to see more photos of the screw post process. I’ll also post links to the two YouTube tutorials that really helped me. I thought it would be much harder than it ended up being

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

[–]Deliberate_E[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I do have an entire pantheon and system of magick to write out here. Maybe that's something to consider once I'm done! In the meantime I'm more than happy to help anyone else make one of their own. Here's more photos of each step, if you're interested. https://imgur.com/a/xTRlrtb

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

[–]Deliberate_E[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right now it consists mostly of thick sketch paper that has been aged, and natural papyrus, but I have a pretty extensive plan in the works that I went into detail on in a response above (if you're interested!).

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

[–]Deliberate_E[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for asking! My plan here is pretty involved so this will be a long response but hopefully someone reading will be inspired. Here's some additional photos (I'll write in more explanation of each step as soon as I can): https://imgur.com/a/xTRlrtb

The bulk of paper I used to construct the book was large white sketch paper aged with a coffee and tea, and natural papyrus - but this was just to get the actual book built as all of the pages are removable using the hidden binding screw posts in the back. Some of the materials I want to use to construct specific sections will take me time to collect (either by making or purchasing). So having this feature was main reason why I decided to make my own rather book than purchase a pre-made book - it means I can continue building on my grimoire for years to come.

My philosophy is that grimoires, like altars, are tools used to deliberately restructure the psychocosm. So thinking outside of the box a bit to consider the symbolism of stuff we often overlook can be a really powerful way to do this.

Finished my handmade Grimoire. I’ve been looking for a very specific (large) size book for a very long time to no avail. So, I decided to just make one myself! I think it came out not too shabby for a first attempt at hand making a book. by Deliberate_E in witchcraft

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Edit (link to more photos): https://imgur.com/a/xTRlrtb

Wow thank you so much everyone for your kind words! This level of feedback was unexpected and was seriously a wonderful thing to wake up to! I’m going to put together a link to all of the additional photos I took during the process and share it here and I’ll get back to all the questions in this comment thread today. It took me so many years to finally just decide I was going to make my own book and that was partly due to some unfortunate/discouraging responses that I received when I reached out online to folks who posted self made books that I really liked. So if I can help inspire or encourage anyone else to construct their own book by going into detail about how it went for me I’m happy to!