Day 45-Elkskin Mini-Journal

A nice little salable journal today. I'll probably be doing less of the experimental stuff in the next month and more stuff like this--a nice clean little book that people will pay me for. That's because I have a craft show coming up the weekend of April 10. And not nearly enough inventory to fill my 6 feet of table.

Anyway, this is a compact little mini-journal, 3"x3 1/2" x 3/4" thick. The leather is a fabulous butter-soft elkskin I found in a thrift store, of all places. The cover wraps over the front and a thong tie wraps around three times before tucking into itself to hold the book closed. A nice cream-colored 70 lb paper makes 72 leaves (144 pages) and it has a liner of dark brown mulberry paper.