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What is your bibliography of your life so far? What are the main events that happened that you would never forget? Today, I am going to introduce to you about making a life book about yourself.

You will need some sketch book papers, a pencil, an eraser, coloring materials that you would like to have, and a stapler/colored tape or a hole puncher/2-3 rings. You have choices whether to combine the pages with a stapler and cover it with colored tape, or to use a hole puncher to attach 2-3 rings. Also, the reason why we are using sketchbook papers is because a book shouldn't be flappy, but to be firm. In addition, choose the coloring materials that you prefer like pastels, paint, colored pencils, and etc. You may bring more than one of course!

You first need to think of events that happened in your life that are important to you or that you remember it clearly. Grab a piece of paper for the first page of your book, not the title page yet though. Sketch out the picture and add a sentence or two for it like a narration. You could think of it as a picture book that is for children. Do the same thing for drafting the rest of the pages filled with content. You should draw the pictures that fit to the sentences. For me, I picked out 8 events in my life.

Whenever the drafting is finished, start filling the colors in. It should be vivid and attracting your readers. The colors you wisely chose should fit into the drawings that you made. Also, trace the writings to show the words clearly. You wouldn't want sentences to hide underneath your fantastic drawings, even though the drawings should be the ones that should pop up the most. 

After you are finished with your pages of the book, now do the title page. It would be better to do this at the last moment, because you get to name it that is based on the content of the book. Honestly, the title page of your book needs to be the most attractive page of all. Make the title in big fonts, and I personally prefer using diverse colors.

When you are finally done with the title page and the content pages, it is time to combine all the pages together to form into a book. I mentioned at the beginning of how you have two choices. The first option is to use a stapler. When the stapling is done, it makes the marks, and it is better to cover those up by using colored tape. The second option is to use hole punchers to make 2-3 holes, and then linking the holed pages with 2-3 rings.

You are finally done with a book of your simple life story! 

Quote of the Day: "Before they read words, children are reading pictures." -David Wiesner

Title page of my book.

 

My 1st page.

My 2nd & 3rd page.

My 4th & 5th page.

My 6th page.

My 7th & 8th page.