I’ve even begun writing in it and throwing a few pictures between the pages. I thank all those movies and TV shows where people keep these amazing journals for this idea. Now I’m always stopping by used book stores and the library looking for old books to do this to. By the way, used books are so cheap at the library $0.50 – $1.00. I’ll probably be giving these away as Christmas presents. I think I’ll make a tutorial for rebinding old books into journals in the future when I get a little better at it. I found so few tutorials on how to do this I kind of just made it up as I went along and learned quite a few lessons. I have a much larger book titled Australia that I plan on making into a travel journal for the day I finally visit the great continent of Australia.

So I’m sitting on the floor looking at this lil book and I see all of these un-used and under-estimated black felt scraps sitting to the side of me. I started playing around with them and I created this lovely little swirly scene. Too bad this stuff can’t stay that way.

It was fun trying to fit all of these little pieces together and see how they all work. I think I’m actually going to draw on the front of the journal (probably some swirlies like this) and I also might bleach parts of it to give the outside the same aged look that the inside pages have.