This Week’s Give-Away: A Little Handmade Travel Journal

Since we’re going to be heading out to Grapevine this weekend, I thought a Travel Journal would be appropriate.

I made this one years and years ago—I can’t even remember making it.

It has wrapping paper on the cover, which is kind of cheesy, but it looks cool, what with the map theme and all.

The pages are sewn in through the chamois-covered spine. Oh, that’s cool:  typing “chamois,” I remembered how, there at the beginning, I was all about the chamois for covering the spines. My dad made me some stuff out of chamois when I was a kid, and so it’s always been cool for me. Huh.

Anyway, the spine has wooden disks and beads, and there’s also a thread-and-button closure made out of the same pieces.

Not a lot of pages—it was designed for adding in photos and stuff you collect as you travel. I think the paper on the inside of the cover may be papyrus (which is, oddly, the name of this script).

So. If you’d like to document a journey, either external (out in the world) or internal (a journey inside your own imagination), post a comment and tell me about it. I’ll pick on Thursday this week, since we’re out of here on Friday.

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