Notebooks

Ohhhh lordy our notebooks are quite the thing. Everyone has gotten involved with these. "Hey mom, can we buy these yummy ding dongs? You can use the box for a notebook." I will never look at any food box the same.
So...one weekend, in the garage we set out the table and start spreading out our food boxes. We both had blank paper we weren't using in our house so away we go. Start chopping, clipping, measuring, and hey that is really cool do you think you could make me one for school? and ohh yeah that would be really cool to have a little note taking thing in my pocket while I am out in the field? and can you make one for my music sheet for guitar class?
We just laughed because both our husbands and my daughter walked away with a notebook for school. We found a couple of places that were going out of business in our area so we bought some of the paper they had. We have even taken some of the business card notebooks to craft fairs and they have been a wonderful hit.
Deidre

Holly Box Tops Bat Man! Everything in our house has become fodder for notebooks: Crayon boxes, wall paper samples, un-used cards, used cards, greeting cards, playing cards, parts of kid games (since all the other parts are lost anyway, why not?), the men even started saving beer boxes! I once looked at a toilet paper cardboard roll and wondered how I could use it to make a notebook. We had no clue how well the note books would take off when we decided to do them. If we had we might have gone a different rout with the binding equipment. But, still we couldn't be more thrilled. The notebooks are fun, creative and expressive of our personalities. A little out-there. Since starting with them we've evolved our notebooks into what we felt they needed not just to make them stand out from the other guys selling them but, to really be of use to the buyer. One of the things we enjoy about making the notebooks is that they are made from primarily recycled materials. The covers range from box tops to what ever we can easily fit into the binder, the paper has been collected from several sources and as yet we haven't needed to buy paper (I'm secretly crossing my fingers for that custom order that is sooooooo big I have to buy a case of paper!), we both had an abundance of un-used mismatched envelopes and no end to our ideas.

We had no clue how well the note books would take off when we decided to do them. If we had we might have gone a different rout with the binding equipment. But, still we couldn't be more thrilled.
The notebooks are fun, creative and expressive of our personalities. A little out-there. Since starting with them we've evolved our notebooks into what we felt they needed not just to make them stand out from the other guys selling them but, to really be of use to the buyer.
One of the things we enjoy about making the notebooks is that they are made from primarily recycled materials. The covers range from box tops to what ever we can easily fit into the binder, the paper has been collected from several sources and as yet we haven't needed to buy paper (I'm secretly crossing my fingers for that custom order that is sooooooo big I have to buy a case of paper!), we both had an abundance of un-used mismatched envelopes and no end to our ideas.


Patricia