Tagged : paper

23 Mar

How to Rebind a Moleskine Notebook: Make a Custom DIY Sketchbook!

by diyblogger

« The size and durability of the Moleskine Pocket notebook is perfect for my sketching needs, but the paper is not ideal. Although both “sketchbook” and “watercolor” versions are available, neither is well-suited to my particular requirements. And so, I have developed a process for replacing the paper (aka Moleskine Reloaded) while retaining all the [...]

23 Dec

Green Gift Wrapping

by diyblogger

This is yet another gift wrapping post. This one focuses on reusing old newspapers (or this morning’s newspaper) to wrap gifts. Wrapping gifts with newspapers is a great idea considering that most wrapping papers are produced overseas, with little or no recycled content, and are used to re-package something that’s already packaged! The general idea [...]

22 Dec

Homemade Holiday Cards and Gift Wrapping

by diyblogger

Yay. I’m done with the crazyness. I’ve finished my Christmas shopping tonight. No more long lineups at the cash register, no more fighting in the parking lots, no more fracking Christmas music. All that’s left is to wrap those gifts. How about you? Done with the Christmas gifts? Maybe you don’t celebrate the Christian holiday. [...]

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15 Dec

DIY Bookbinding

by diyblogger

Here are a few tutorials on bookbinding. Using these techniques, you can repair old books, or make your own. You can even make your own notebooks using recycled paper or with paper you made yourself. These make great gifts. Hurry up, only 9 7 days until Festivus! DIY Bookbinding: Handbound book: [link] DIY book press [...]

14 Dec

How To Recycle and Make Your Own Paper

by diyblogger

This nice set of instructions shows you how to make your own paper from recycled paper. If you’re like most people, you get lots of flyers, papers and ads in your mailbox (I don’t because we have official stickers we can put on our mailboxes that say we don’t want any unsolicited bulk mail in [...]

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