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The creation of the pocket journals was probably one of my favorite projects in the time frame of my journal and greeting card business. I was always saving and collecting scrap paper from all the products I was making.<\/p>\n
My standard\u00a0 sized journals were cut in a certain way that they left enough scrap paper that I eventually decided to do something with it by creating these little pocket journals. I also had boxes full of leftover pieces of binding wire. Specifically a 3 inch piece left over from each of the large journals. I\u00a0 had probably 300- 400 sets so that is a lot of journals which got made.<\/p>\n
This became the spine to the pocket Journal. I practically never wasted any paper or binding wire at all and I was always making efforts to make new and interesting products with whatever materials I could find and of course make money.<\/p>\n
Once I decided to make the pocket journals, I needed to find a way to market them. So I took a trip up to West Coast Paper in Medford, Oregon and found a great packaging box which you can see here displayed an illustration. The box contained the journals and then popped open to be the display as well.<\/p>\n
Lastly I needed some images. I’ve always loved stencils and the image of human silhouettes so I quickly designed a series of about 30 different silhouettes which were then used on these pocket journals. You can see and buy the original silhouette images from my archived site. http:\/\/www.vectorsilhouette.com<\/a><\/p>\n I think it was these original pocket journals that sparked the idea inside me of doing an Obey Giant Journal. I actually had created a pretty cool little Obey Giant scene which I had e-mail to shepherd at the time. I saw a copy of it recently, so once I find it I’ll post appear in this category.<\/p>\n (((Shields Post Obey Giant Mock Sample)))<\/p>\n The pocket journals were a great seller and because everything was made out of scrap material which I was buying anyways it was a real winner once they had been invented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The creation of the pocket journals was probably one of my favorite projects in the time frame of my journal and greeting card business. I was always saving and collecting scrap paper from all the products I was making. My standard\u00a0 sized journals were cut in a certain way that they left enough scrap paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32,31,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}