The other day I was just looking around on the internet, Twitter, etc. and came across this great tutorial for a sewn journal. I was intrigued by the idea of sewing paper and decided The Tot could use a sketch book. Maybe that would make waiting in line, waiting rooms, etc. a little easier. And, as I have a gazillion sheets of scrapbooking paper hanging around making me feel guilty that I haven’t scrapbooked The Tot’s life, I figured I might as well put them to good use.

I swear this thing took me all of 15 minutes from start to finish. Easy as pie. And The Tot loved it! Since I didn’t happen to have any printed paper that was of card stock heftiness, I took a plain dark pink piece of “card stock” type paper and sewed a thinner printed piece on it for decoration. And I used just copy paper for the inside. Super easy and fun to make!