Journal and Note Pad

Welcome!

I'm glad you've stopped by today.

I have a hand made journal and note pad to show you today.

Our scrapbooking and crafting group at 
My Happy Place usually have a 

Christmas Crop every year.

This year, again we had to put it off, due to Covid.

But finally on March 5th a group of us got together

to have our Christmas Crop.
I decided to make my gifts for the exchange.

I love how these turned out!

I made them myself from the cover, to printing the pages

on different colors and weights of paper, to hand sewing the

signatures into the journal.
I really enjoyed the entire process.

I made the entire note pad also, including

cutting the paper and gluing it into a tear off

note pad.

Here you can see that I have different colors of paper

for the pages.

If you look closely you can see the hand 

stitching that holds each signature into the

book.

I put the notepad on a chipboard 

backing, so it could slide in under the

belly band.

This way the pad can be removed and a new one

put in, when this one is gone.

I loved making these gifts for the gift exchange and

hope the person that received it will enjoy using them.

I also made some Salted Caramel Sauce to go along with

these, but that's for another post some time.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and will come again soon.

If you are interested in learning more about making 

journals of different kinds, my favorite videos are

from Nik the Booksmith on YouTube.
Check her out, she is very knowledgeable and

does some great videos.

Until I see you again,

make a gift for someone!