MORE OPEN BOOK COVERS FOR PRINTING OUT... presented by BB

MORE 1920's and 30's OPEN BOOK COVERS FOR PRINTING OUT LATER

As the invisable library expands  so it is the books have to arrive upon this scene too.

Double sided archways await the filling.

Using a cheap brush four coats of acrylic white paint, was applied and it dried quite fast, i can no longer bear that quick spray paint from a can, which is more suited for choking up a bleeding lung than helping me save up some of  the  time i have left.                                                                                                         

i determined it to be 'My Way From Old Magazine Covers to Book Blanks!'     Simply because after producing thousands of actual book covers i needed to expand upon another voyage above and beyond. 

                                   

Nearly five years on and the process i developed has made things a lot easier.

That sure is true, thankfully however  it did take up lots of my time durring Covid and that ongoing bloody Russian waged war upon Ukraine. But upon my word i was and i still am comfy here at home with my Dearest Mrs B,and we two are going nowhere else,because wonderful happens to be here living thankfully free on the leafy evergreen edge of Fiddle Wood, Norwich in the United Kingdom. 

Time is there to use... so i like working on my hobbies and things eventually twist and turn into the shape  that i determine that they all should be. Although upon the pathway of creating a something is not at all rocket science unless i chose to make one  or even perhaps two or three.Yes upon my word things do tend to overlape into growing abstract tuturials where my fancy can be found fully engrossed deep within them.                                                                                                                                                          

My Mother would have been a young lady of 23 years of age when these magazines were presented to the general public, and now in my own time line being way past 76 years myself that gives me a warm feeling as i fondly remember her and my former life as a young boy growing up in the post war years of the 1950's and early 1960's.    It was a cold rough tough time of making do.                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                      

 Back in the day while buying this magazine perhaps parting with a silver shilling ( a BOB! ) was well worth  it in that long ago trolly bus society of that distant past?                                                                                          

As the author here within the point of you reading it,i settled my mind well upon the question of each of my books having need of a blank backing of plain covering,when i could add a much a do about something else.  He!He!                                                                                                                         

The center spine folds over the cardboard edge thus creating that which resembles the book spine. 

Then each colourful cover like the one seen above folds over each side sliding hopefully into perfect

 place upon a fresh wet sea of  p v a carpenters glue. 

i had to spin each part into size in order to place them altogether for copying out sheets which would be cut into strips using fine sharp scissors,then into tiny idividual book sizes.

The black lines help guide my eyes when each larger size is reduced down to a tiny book size.

By then each black line is very fine to ones eye.

The best carpenters glue i will use to make these is thick glue and not the cheap bottle diluted with 50% water. When each tiny piece has dried out fully they will sound like klincker when cut off the sprue spilling down upon a table top. klinck! Sounding like fine hard china!

THE SATURDAY  EVENING POST

In my youthful day of odd fishing display my older brother Ronald, and i made do with an old jam jar suspendered on a piece of hairy string. Well it might seem strange but if one was quick at yanking that string , and gleeful jar plus fishes out of the water ,it actually worked well for the River Wensum teamed with tiny life at that time when the water  glided on idly by to the sea and it was clean, and of course not like it is now.  Such was the idelling passage when powerful men of their oppertune time cared very little upon such a deep set into place subject of keeping things clean for all those that would come after them and my  playful self of gritty determination.                                                                                                                    

Things from the past can be both free and useful,just like pictures 

                           can that when coppied and reduced into grand scale size they are                            

               most fit to stand or indeed lean a snooze upon another.                                 

For  wide awake children sitting up in their bedtime beds in the 1950's  there were old Annuals like the BLACKIE ANNUAL, that rang out their picture book storyline adventures for all those who could have a pleasent read and a good relaxing look within them. For all those  that could not because of differing wee ages and seperate beds they fell to sleep tight and in hopefull safty while lisenning upon the almost hushed night-time song of duityful quietness... 

...For children were to be good, quite and well behaved children and in their tender innocent years of the 1950's that was that. And so it was upon wishful half asleep dreams that the sand man came to visit all.

i suppose it to be very simple for me to continue onwards...

... with shrinking down large books to that bench mark of tiny small ones as i glide happily by upon the streams of lost used up time.

BLACKIE ANNUAL

 

                                                             From the year of our Lord  1930

The Saturday Evening Post

Just like Alice,of famed golden aged past time these must get smaller and smaller, Yes indeed so.

As already mentioned,

The skirting of black surround aid's my poor eyesight well while i cut them out to that which you see from high above what they will become.

Over a short period of time i being afraid of my old printer not doing what i intended it ought to do weighed heavy upon my brow, because i had to print pictures that were clear cut and crisp to the eye that would be looking at them on the Internet...Which of course was its problem and not totally mine. But what to do about this situation mattered greatly to me,  So  Yes i bought another printer to do that function but this one would also save me money because the ink colours flow into deeper set into place reserveirs within this smashing new printing machine!    Before i was buying small plastic rip off priced capsules of ink that were so, so expensive. However looking forward in time what i will save on buying my new larger size ink will eventually pay for my newest printer.   Yes in a strange way i found a good solution,and a great way to solve the vexing throb of my poor head of meager means!.                                                                                                                                                       

                                                 

                                     Well that is it for now. Thank you kindly for stopping by

                                     Stay safe,stay well and help others if you can.BB  

Ancient Column's of Antiquity ................... an Arts & Craft Topic' Athena' written and presented by Paul Howes

BB

Copyright Applies 29/07/2026

Ancient things from antiquity have always inspired me, i being the dreamer that i have always been.

Here we have an example whereby the loose arms were cemented into square sockets which were a huge part of the shoulders design. Being constructed around 500 BC, well they sure broke off in part's while others completely fell off. However after writing so, i find them in their own supportive function to be rather mysterious and quite beautiful in the highest degree of my imagination.                                        

And so i just had to make some while in the heat of such a burning summer, which i find is a glowing hot benefit for this my latest scratch build.                                                                                                                      

Even as a small nipper, i had always aplied the Why Factor? When viewing ancient dilapidated buildings that are always in the motion it seems of falling apart.. 

i doubt that i will endeavour to build a complete ruined temple because i realise my own measure and  being almost 78 years of age, i therefore try to stop my imagination making appointments that my frail body cannot keep. 

But,here and now being able to do a little topic here brings me a certain kind of happinees!

And upon that mention i was soon about to fly upon this topic of Athena.

Although i only have one Pattern, showing the left leg forwards, i will have to make do without that of another silicone mould showing the right leg being displayed.                                                                     So it was i began to cast the mould up.  Athena! shown within the real photograph high above  i am sure with a smile or two will not mind at all.                                                                                                                                      

The Mould  

A ready made  silicone candle mould was soon converted to my need's by using a sharp blade craft knife that cut through the middle of her back then sliced it's way up from the bottom to top then across the top of the head. This made it flip open easily while removing some real lovely smooth supportive columns for my present needs of play.  Clamp's held the two sides of the slit together and kept it nicely in place while casting her up.

 Play Time mixing up the fine white powder with cold tap water arrived which i have always found it to be excellent high quality fun.  Yogurt pots were perfect in use as casting up ladles. And they sort of came in for free.

 A little spillage from the mould is expected and so a little allowance is added to counter for this.

After a one second fine misty spray i then poured the quick running mixture in. After a few minutes 5,or 6 of them, i strickled off the top of the mould which made it level. My Dear Mrs B, asked me where her best butter knife and spoon had gone? Opp's i replied with a giggle!  i must add here and now that the top of the silicone mould actually formed the bottom slab of each upright casting.

                                                                 A Bold Return From The Star's

Below there they are, Fred once upon a time was an Imperial Dalek! 

And MayBell,is a MayBell,who will always remain one.

These unlikely pair have become inseparable friends in spite of being different in make up and looks.

 They have had many adventures over the years,  Since they came my way,

While arriving in Fiddle Wood, Old Catton, Norwich.in  the United Kingdom of 2013.

FIDDLE WOOD, where things tend to happen as my fingers type away the hours of darkness!

And yes where a head might sometimes fall off and roll away. Like for say, the one Below.

Well yes things do tend to happen but it is all part of the  Art's and Craft's Movement, because 'We', can hopefully learn a little or a lot of something by having such misadventures! Which is finding out why such a thing happened after i'd cast up 20 or so of them. And so i must admit that while carrying a bundle of them that one fell way down  until it hit the hard stone floor. But it will not be wasted it will become one of the prop's in a Fred & Maybell ripping yarn! For all throughout my life i have been a story teller. So as an Author i always got to lie every day, and every night time as i wrote Sci Fi Fantasy story's, While under the sight and sound of the Owl of Minerva!

i have enjoyed being well enough to repetitively cast Athena, up and write of such a thing from the dusty past. Here being at my home, i have cast up this one figure over fifty times, but some i rejected due to my aim of obtaining the highest quality control possible.  

A modern day look  at this famous  site upon a high rise rock solid base. i believe the invader Turk's  stored their gunpowder there, and in a fire fight  the Parthenon was hit with red hot shot and so whatever was inside and on top, it being the roof was all blown to Smithereens upon September 26th in the war of 1687.  

Deep within our own time line, repairs are taking place constantly.

There will be an Update to this endeavour later.

Have Fun, Stay Safe and help others if you can. BB

Jesus Memorial 2026

Jesus Memorial 2026

( Bible John chapter 3 verse 16 ) 

' For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son,

so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed

but have everlasting life.'

 World Wide, the carefully prepared symbolic emblems for the * Memorial *, 

will be passed along by hand to all there in attendance during all these special meetings.

Jesus, with his last dying breath, bowed his head and surrendered his life.

( Mark 15:37: Luke23:46; ) Truly it was such an humiliating way to die.

The Memorial date this year for the Passover is the 2nd of April after Sunset.

There certainly will be a rather Pink full Moon for all to see.                                                 

If there is a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses near where you live, you too and your family

         are warmly invited to attend free of charge, there being no collections taken place.

         Should this not be the case visit our website www.jw.org for alternative locations. 

Stay safe, stay well and help others if you can.  Respectfully Paul Howes

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Three more book covers for my Library. presented by Paul Howes

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Presented by Paul Howes

Therefore Copy right Applies

3/20/26 6:46 AM

As i looked at the challenge that lay before me upon that day i realised that the options to create the printing plates of such a book as War of The Worlds were rather slim to say the least, and in more ways than just one. For before me lay the Largest Title ever to fill my eyeballs and that, that was a real problem settling upon my fancy.                                                                                                                 

  So the object of this determined exercise was... 

to shrink the title of the book down to create the Spine of each Book!

i smiled upon this pondering thought. then thought of another.

H,G WELLS

With such a war the author would place The Whole World upon the edge of the Abyss!

                                i realised that i would have to slip onto my Alter Ego 'BB',

                                to solve the problem of such Large Letters, 

                                After all it would indeed be rather a small thing for him to do.

Preparing the first one below for placing here was not to difficult after all it has been over four years of preparing plates for printing now and he and i knew  the well trod way of how to do it.

So it was that the plain looking pictures above were placed here... 

Then a simple frame of black over white was added to give it a lift for my poor eyesight when cutting out little pictures  begins. Yes that most certainly will give me a certain edge of success.

         We cut across the pictures title and twisted it into place as seen below....

 then it was hemmed in between the two pictures above to create the open book cover that was needed.

Repetitive samples of three were cut to shape that would be used to make up my plates for printing out.

                                               To some it might seem a rather odd  thing to do?

                                               Because i only need three of each within my

                                               Library that does not exist!

So as i only need a few of these they would be copied out, when the reduction needed is finally reached along with others, of differing titles. Then the whole plate can be recorded in one bold pc sweep. 

As i reached my halfway point of writing this i heard the front door open... and yes it was Coffee time along with a short break for us!

And so it was that my Mrs B, arrived home, rather wet due to the rain  that fell upon her head along with Bella our little dog. My 'Hi Darling', greeted her as usual upon her entering into the hallway of solid laid stone. So her yellow coat dripping away water onto such a floor caused no alarm at all, well that is why we laid it into this rather well trod place many years before.

As Bella, was being towel dried, i told my Mrs B. that i had succeeded in my endeavour here___ 

For below the other books  were done and dusted and looked... 

                                       Yes a rather slim and much more refined fitting spine

                                       had been placed into space between the two covers.

In realty out there in the world usually the back cover is kept plain perhaps with a few details pertaining to the topic of each book, but my world of tipping out toy books is not bound into any of that well reasoned fact.

For a scratch builder such as i,

A piece of paper and some ink is all that is now needed.

My unorthodox way works very well for Me, 

and it is most pleasing to realise it to be nearly cost free.

                                    

                                    And so it was that i after a pondering upon it decided 

                                   to add the one above too, for this reason.

                                    It also is worth a mention that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 

                                    Also placed the world upon the edge of the Abyss too.

Missy arrived out of the Blue... with a question. Just where is Sir Percy's, Library?

Perhaps we will find out upon another day of oddity!

Thank you kindly for your visit.

Stay safe, Stay well and help others if you can. Paul Howes

BB                                            

There is More to this Picture than Meets the Average Eye..... Presented by BB

There is More to this Picture than Meets the Average Eye

It being a very warm Spring Day,i returned to this topic of arts and craft's, although it must be stated that i am not always straight forwards in getting people to understand my topic's or indeed why should they? Anyway i had been upon a quest  for many a year since *Covid19* trying to save money by of course not spending any. Well yes one has to eat drink have fun and of course pay the officle bills as they fly through the letter box.... Yes we Mrs B,and little i still pick up the mail as we always have since we had need to do such a lowly thing as the floor seems a long way down in my dotage! Sure we have a mail box upon the outside wall and in plain sight,but the Posties never seem to use it because i reckon that they sleep walk upon their patch of Fiddle Wood in the United Kingdom.Of course having to get up rather early 6 days out of each week of course they are highly skilled in what they do. Zzzzzzz! But putting that opinion aside ,it is highly praised  to be able to artfully understand the odds and evens of many a street,close or in our case a court yard of hubble bubble topsy turvy houses the likes of the first ever brick maker would die to see. What? O yes of course they have been long gone dusted in the drift of time and space.                                                                                                                                                              Anyway  guy's,i best get a move on to what is for me just one more obvious thing to notice and i being quite able to do so with my low iq then i guess millions more over the years have discovered things put upon the front covers of this and that too.                                                                                                                  

The Old Comic Book Charm of my early life yes reading while sitting on the inner window cill beyound Mothers old Piano! Yes many a rainy day i sat there reading lots of comic's which i still believe is a good indirect way of self learning oneself in the effort to read and understand,

     but sometimes things are hidden but oddly in plain sight too.                                                                                                               

Upon my old trail of finding books and magizines for my invisable Library i found it  intriguing to look beyond the front cover of certain things, And here i identified two stars from a Western Film known simple as 'She Wore A Yellow Ribbon', from the year 1949... Which is also my birth year date. 

 

                                        On the left..John Wayne,is Captain Nathan Brittles

                                       On the right... Harry Carey Jr, is 2nd Lieutenant Ross Pennell

And so it happened to me that i alone upon such a quest did finally push all the primed pieces into place and by doing so the front,middle and back of one of my strange books fell into place to stand beside thousands of props i've already made ................And yes indeed with hardly any cost.

All i have to do is cut out a strip of picture framers paper card and stick and fold the home made book cover onto it all in one go and wait for it to dry, before cutting it out with a sharp craft knife.

However upon this subject matter of heart...

  i guess the other one between them ....

would in deed of valour be 

Ben  Johnson!

Thank you for taking time out to read and view such a toppic as this.

Stay safe,stay well and help others if you can. BB