Decorated Moleskines

This week on emuse I'm posting some old projects, some of which haven't been seen on the blog before. Today's post is all about the Moleskines!

I've got a fair collection of Moleskine notebooks of different styles. I use them as travel journals when I go on holiday, as my everyday sketchbooks, and for keeping notes about the books I read, films I see, etc. When you've got so many, you need to be able to tell them apart! So here are some of the ways I've decorated them.

1. Using origami paper, cut-out letters, mod podge, and a few cute accents

This is the main way that I decorate my travel journals - the ones here are Austria 2001, Japan 2006, China 2008 and Peru 2012. I haven't done my Kyoto 2013 one yet! I added coins and tassels to the China and Japan ones, and a pompom trim  and tiny ricrac braid to the Peru one. I decorated a memo pocket folder in a similar way, for storing old (ancient!) love letters. I use a simpler version of this on my sketchbooks, just adding a simple band of origami paper.

2. Drawing on them

This is how I've decorated my Cahiers, which I use for keeping notes on movies, books, tv, theatre, and music. The books one was done with just a black pen, but the others used coloured pencils.

3. Stamping on them

This is a Moleskine that I decorated for my brother. I made my own stamps from erasers, and combined these with use of coloured pencils.

4. Using patterned paper and stamping

This is how I decorated a couple of tiny pink Moleskines.

5. Making a felt cozy

This is a simple way of keeping your Moleskine safe, easy to find in your bag, and pretty to look at!