Soon I will be starting a bookbinding business

I have decided that, since I need to up my income for saving my parent's house, I'm going to be starting up an official second job soon. It should even nicely compliment my current work as a freelance writer.

I want to start bookbinding, and maybe even repairing books, as a career that will produce a full time income as a second job.

I have been bookbinding since I was ten years old, and have perfected several styles of bookbinding, even creating a new kind of binding when I made my dad's memorial book earlier this month. I love creating books from raw materials, but was unable to do so in the past because I lived in a home where both of my parents were heavy smokers. Now, I want to clear out the spare bedroom and re-purpose it to be a work shop for professional bookbinding.

I spoke to the people at the funeral home that we use in town, and they would be interested in seeing a sample of what I can do, so now I need to get things set up so that I can start mass creating hand bound books that I can sell. I then need to go to a few more places and organize consignments for my hand made books.

It is going to take me a little time to get everything organized and the room fixed for the work, but hopefully by the start of November I will be ready for basic book production. I will then let the profits from the business help to expand things to be more and more advanced in my bookbinding until I can even craft my own hinges and things. I was taught basic metal working by a master metal smith after all, so it would be very cool to be able to craft my own hand made hinges for the books.