Sketchbook
Many years ago I used to paint regularly, now I just do it on holiday. I found this little folding sketchbook in Venice a few years ago and have slowly filled it up with sketches, mostly drawn whilst waiting for yet another delicious platter of seafood to be placed in front of me. It is very nearly full, so I decided to try my hand at making my own. Its only flaw (to get a technical for a moment) is that the paper is just slightly too thin for my taste, so I bought a heavier gauge watercolour paper, and cut the entire sheet into rectangles, each one the size of two pages. Then I glued them together, interleaved, and sewed heavy canvas onto the front and the back.
It would work as a photograph album as well, with a photograph on each page. The finished product is bulkier than the original, but still small enough to fit in a pocket.
