September 19, 2023 Small Journals Revealed

It rained all day yesterday!!!  The yard in front of the house turned into a lake.  Going to be some time before I can work on getting Duchess sitting level.  The grass and yard is too wet to move the trailer with my truck.  Would not be good for the yard!

This morning it is bright and sunny but cool.  Still too wet to sit on the patio with my morning coffee.  The sun doesn't reach the patio until the afternoon.

So, yesterday I said I would share the small journals today.  There are lots of pictures.

First of all, I had hoped to use a plain small folder type journal with three sheets of paper.  Well, it didn't work...way too thick.  I could only include one sheet (four pages).  I did use the sewing machine to sew in the single sheet.  I still want to add some paper to the pockets on the cover/folder.  Here are the picture for the small journal...

What to do with the rest of the sheets.  I decided to make a large small journal.  I attached each sheet (four pages) to the spine of the journal, but I used an extra spine shown below to which I attached the sheets and then glued into the journal spine.  I had a tiny hole punch and punched the holes for hand sewing the sheets onto the spine.  This picture has one sheet attached.

The photo below has all the sheets attached and shown from the other side.  You can see the hand stitching...

I shaped this journal like a box with an narrow overlapping section secured with six tiny velcro dots as well as a belt that was secured as shown...

Here are the pages in order...

It's done.  There are journal cards, journal notebooks, folded journal cards, etc.  Lots of fun. 

I think I will try something a bit different...still looking for more Holiday gift ideas that I can make.

That's all for today...

Talk with you tomorrow