Softback Journal

MUSEROUND: Duly Noted

I intended notebooks. I leaning fancy letter-paper of all sorts, and mini-envelopes and stickers and such, but I do infatuation notebooks. No her eh, each Wednesday MUSEROUND begins (I fondness dolls…I be infatuated with science…I adulate fairytales). I do sweetheart notebooks allowing. You know, there’s a Wikipedia entrant for ‘notebook’.  Oh it’s not engrossing, I’m not linking it, It impartial tells you a notebook is a publication you can write notes in. Sha, indeed?

Come on then, crafted notebooks…

Leather obligated beauties (1-4)

1. Sybaritism black leather journal by Julie Boyles.

2. Mossy new Totoro journal from Etsy look for Bind Me.

3. Wonderful (wonderful) red suede association guest libretto with around the corner hand in hand inked artwork. Worry of Strikebooks on DaWanda.

4. The Binding Bee’s upcycled leather handbound journal.

Ornamented your chances at making your own, for starters why not try this beginners softback leather regulations tutorial from Armor Geek’s blog.

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Or perhaps you have planned a boring old cheapie you could trim up with a reuseable run things?

1. A sewn notebook scrap cover tutorial from Craftzine.

2. A5 notebook with removable reusable slipcover in Autumn Leaves, by Mirka Connivance.

3. Share and hold back track of your wine favorites with Concepcioun’s wine log log with reuseable ancient felt defray.

4. Made Whilst Listening To brings us a slipcover made from a choice sixties cotton type.

Here’s another blooper cover tutorial on CraftBlog.

And Tapebubba, Downstairs Designs, and Feral Mouse offer disparate types of wherewithal a waiting made covers for you to pop your toy notebook vindicate into.

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I saw a set of notebooks in Waterstones recently with old fashioned Ladybird soft-cover covers, they were a gift on the expensive side even if, at £8. Dexterously, online retailers Touch Me Kwik (1) are doing them at £3.99. And if you’d proffer the real(er) possessions, try a notebook with archetypal re-purposed Ladybird hard-cover covers from Rhubarb Shiver (2).

3. Penquin alternatives from Dab Silverleaf. Each record’s overspread is taken from have of a recycled Penguin advertising placard.

4. And while we’re on the re-purposed notebook bedding thing (and there are masses of upcycled cereal boxes, chocolate boxes, prescription boxes on Folksy/Etsy) X this refashioned Creedence album screen from Antiquated Paperworks. I hold dear the Creedence (bolt from)!

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And while we’re on recycling (did I know scold you I love recycling {winks}):

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