Lovely notebooks

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  • June 21, 2013 at 5:59 pm
    RobinP
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    Where are some of your favorite places to get blank notebooks your commonplace books? I love beautiful papers and notebooks and like my commonplace books to be special. Looking for new ideas.

    I love Nancy Kelly’s post about commonplace books. Her books are beautiful and would love to find similar.

    http://sageparnassus.blogspot.com/2011/12/silva-rerum-commonplacing-as-habit_30.html

    June 21, 2013 at 9:40 pm
    pslively
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    Well, I know this is not a very original idea, but I just love anything Moleskine. The paper is just so nice to write on and I particularly love the Cahier line because with the sewn binding, the whole book can be folded back like a spiral. I have thought about decoupaging the covers with some beautiful scrapbook paper, but I think I’m in a plain and simple frame of mind these days.

    When my daughter and I were last at Barnes and Noble, they did have some gorgeous books in the journal section. The one I loved was handmade paper with a thick leather cover that tied shut. It was beautiful in a rustic sort of way. The picture from SageParnassus reminded me of Barnes and Noble because they had several books with a similar look to those.

    For me these days, writing is all about the feel of the pen on the paper and I guess that’s why I am stuck on Moleskine for now, though I would be interested in an alternative if anyone’s got any suggestions.

    June 22, 2013 at 1:26 am
    TailorMade
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    I think you’ve both found beautiful options. Mine is just a cushy Dayspring journal at this point. 🙂

    I had a small one a while back. Mary Englebreit. It fit in my purse. That was nice. I never know when I might see a sign, t-shirt, or smidge of pretty words in a book on a trip to town.

    Ive also used scrapbooks.

    June 22, 2013 at 2:24 am
    erin.kate
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    I love to use a slightly more beautiful composition book from this little shop. Lovely things.

    June 22, 2013 at 4:38 am
    missceegee
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    Erin.kate – love those. I love composition books and pretty ones, well, my heart went pitter patter.

    June 22, 2013 at 10:30 am
    RobinP
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    Ooooh! Yes, exactly what I was looking for.

    June 22, 2013 at 10:30 am
    Tristan
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    Have you ever seen the tutorial I did about decorating composition books with scrapbook paper? It’s super easy, even my kids can do it. Here you go: http://ourbusyhomeschool.com/covering-a-composition-book-with-scrapbook-paper-tutorial/

    My girls enjoy this but so do my boys. You can see several of ours in the first picture of this post: http://ourbusyhomeschool.com/session-one-april-2013-general-conference/

    June 22, 2013 at 12:08 pm
    RobinP
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    What a great idea, Triatan! I used to sell Creative Memories so I have reams of gorgeous papers! I’m getting so inspired! :). I’ll be writing everything down.

    June 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm
    erin.kate
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    You’re welcome. I use them for my kids’ notebooks for Spelling Wisdom, for narration notebooks, for BF Geography notebooks … pretty much any reason I can find, in addition to some for myself. I love pretty books.

    June 22, 2013 at 1:24 pm
    TailorMade
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    Thanks for the tutorial, Tristan. My youngest will want to use my stash of papers for every subject from now on. ;0)

    Becca<><

    June 22, 2013 at 2:25 pm
    Tristan
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    Becca – so true! I love getting packs of the scrapbook paper at Hobby Lobby with one of their 40% off coupons so the kids can enjoy them. They use them for lots of things. For example, here is a tutorial I did on making cute corner bookmarks:

    http://ourbusyhomeschool.com/corner-bookmark-tutorial-and-free-template/ It also includes a template to download to make things easy.

    June 22, 2013 at 3:54 pm
    Tanya
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    oh yes – altered notebooks…those are fun.  My daughter made a pretty one with paper glued to the cover as the base and then she added buttons and ribbon to the front in a flower design.

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