Building to the Full Display......

Working up to the display...

The octopus is quickly changing colors to full, throbbing display -

 I less than a minute, this octopus went for total beige to strobbing shades of burgundy and purple.  She also went from docile and blob-shaped, to aggitated and swimming aggressively across the tank.  The mystery is - "What made her so agressive?" 

Speaking in terms of the structure of the minibook:  Notice, also, the use of the text block to print the lines for the addition of hand written text.  I love that I could make this a color to compliment the octopus!

Full-page spread once the book is bound together.

Once the pages are fit into the binding and locked in place with the book rings.....  One of the challenges of these minibooks is the tight binding on the spine.  The choices are either to reduce the number of pages or begin with a very stiff binding that makes the pages difficult to fully open.  Of course the third obvious choice is to build the book in a completely different way!!!