A Purple Gift

 For my birthday this year, friend Jaye made me this amazing journal.  It's completely unique, and more importantly *purple* and I love it so much.  The outside is pieced together fabrics.

 Here's the back so you can see more of the cool fabrics she used.

 A closeup of the button/ribbon closure.

 A view of all the pages.  The signatures of pages are all from recycled/reclaimed/re-used paper sewn together which makes it interesting to look at before you've written or drawn anything yourself!  Such a great variety of paper, some of which is hard to write on, so I'm sewing things on as I go.

 Here's how it looks when opened up.

The hand-dandy inside the front cover pocket, which is pieced also.

 Another closeup of the pages, see, how the page itself is sewn together?  This book makes me hungry every time I look at it, with the Rechiutti chocolate paper, a paper from Baskin Robbins,...yum.




Thanks Jaye! I love using this book so much.