Perfect Book of Shadows
Several wonderful readers have given me some great sites for really beautiful BOSs. As I feared, they are quite expensive, but you know, sometimes you actually get what you pay for. And if people are going about hand making beautiful pieces, they deserve to be paid for their craftsmanship and materials, as well as a bit of profit. People have often asked me why my jewelry is so "expensive." It's basically the same idea. The stones and beads are as good a quality as I can get, they're the genuine articles, and I don't skimp on fittings, wires, etc. Not to mention the design work, and the work I put into creating them.
Anyway, re: BOSs, Check out these two:
Brahms Bookworks . Really pretty designs. Great looking hardware. Different sizes. Utterly wonderful.
The other one, at ebay isn't quite as bad as it first looks. For example, you can get them without the really silly Charmed spells (although for people who like that sort of thing, they're cool :-)), and you can get them soon with interchangeable pages and things.
Thanks again, gentle readers.