I've played around with handmade journals in the past, including some made from records i keep wanting to take pictures of . . . (should have thought about that before my sun when down). But this is my first hand-sewn journal and I have to say I'm pretty proud of it. It took me awhile to figure out. It is 4.25x 5.5 inches open spined journal, 16 pages (32 double sides). The cover is a piece of scrapbooking paper i chopped up and glued to matteboard. Next semester I hope to be making lil books for my senior show, so designing the covers is definitely something I want to do, but for now I'm just trying to figure out bindings.