28th February, 2020. hand made Shabby Chic Journal.

Good afternoon. This is my first attempt at making a Shabby Chic journal. Seen lots done but was never quite sure how to start. Brilliant this YouTube thing !  I decided, just in case I made a mess, not to use anything expensive. The book I took apart was a very old one, dropping to bits anyway, and for the pages I used a inexpensive slightly thick sketch book from the Book Store, £2 for 30 pages, A4 size.  Here it is....

Everything that I used was from my stash. I wish I had used a slightly thicker cotton string to put the papers in and lined the inside with a pink material, so not showing you the inside !

Almost got carried away and wanted to decorate the back with flowers and remembered it need to lay flat whilst in use.

Just need to fill it now......

Hope you like my first attempt. Just watched an amazing tutorial from ' Such a Pretty Mess ' it was for a Steam Punk box, can see another journal coming on !

Bye for now, take care and have a lovely weekend xx