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Art and creativity

Handmade Books and Crafting Purpose

  • December 3, 2025January 14, 2026
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Handmade Books and Crafting Purpose
©2025 Handcrafted by J. Robin Whitley

Robin is a novice bookmaker, despite having practiced making handmade journals for four years. Her books are made with intention, meditation, and love. Robin also loves color, so each book is colorful and unique.

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Art and creativity

Handcrafted Books and Other Wondrous Things

  • November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
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  “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore My wife, Dr. Heather Thorp, taught me to make handcrafted books a couple of years ago. I’ve wanted to make handmade books for as long as I can remember. Our sixth-grade teacher,…

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Books

Book Dust

  • January 8, 2025January 8, 2025
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Book Dust
Paste paper 2024

  Dust begins to fall from the book I’m sewing as the thread pulls through the paper. Heather and I have finally created enough paste papers to start making/sewing books again. As I sew together a book for a dear friend, dust from the thread…

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Being

Slow is Beautiful

  • March 27, 2023March 27, 2023
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Slow is Beautiful

I was finally able to go with Heather to Rocky Knob this morning. In the past few months I’ve had a few more health challenges keeping me off the trail. Though I couldn’t make the entire trail, it was still powerful to be on the…

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Aging

Who Are You? Who Are You Becoming?

  • January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
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Who Are You? Who Are You Becoming?

Years ago, when I first started working as a pastor in churches, I asked new people that I met what they did for a living. The question seemed less intrusive than what I considered a more personal question like whether they were married or if…

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