Journals, Address Book and Note cards

I have been pretty busy in the studio lately...  Here are some journals,

 and an address book...

 and a couple of note card sets...

Address Book

I made this cute little address book for my daughter this weekend.  The back is covered with the same paper as the bottom right hand corner of the front.  It turned out all kinds of cute!

Address Book II

I decided to spend a little time in my craft room today--the first time since the sale!-- and I made an address and phone book like the one I made before, only covered in paper instead of fabric and it has about 1/4 the ribbons on the spine (hence is only $10. instead of $20!)

I designed it so there is a pocket on the front for a book or two of stamps, so you won't have to look for them when writing a letter. I rummaged through my old foreign stamps and found some with birds on them to go with the bird design on the paper I used for the cover. They are all old and canceled stamps (one is from the US, one from Poland, one from Czechoslovakia, and I am not sure where the other one is from as it is printed in the native tongue and I don't speak it.)

The interior has tabs for the alphabet for ease of use, and the print is large to allow for ease of recording and reading the entries. There are spaces for about 20 entries per letter.

Phone and Address Book

The photo isn't very clear, I took it with my phone, but here is an address/phone book I embellished today... A friend encouraged me to do some of these, so a few weeks ago I bought some at Office Depot to experiment with. This is the first one. It was very time consuming, and the fabric/paper and embellishments rather expensive as those things go, but I was pleased with the result. $20