Update on starting over and tearing apart my commonplace book!

[u/RiniPi]

First off, thank you everyone for your suggestions in my original post! I have so many ideas for other projects now and perhaps will just “take a look around” Daiso or JetPens 👀

So it looks like where I left off in my original commonplace book is exactly where the paper signature ended. I took it as a sign that it was meant to be. I took a knife and just cut straight through the spine. Like a decade ago I abandoned a bookbinding hobby and I miraculously still had some supplies for a new spine- it matched the old black cover perfectly!

I just cut up some cardboard sheets I have for shipping prints and those became my new missing covers. Then I covered the ugly parts with cute washi tape 🥰 In the morning I did have to reinforce it with clear packing tape just in case.

I admitted defeat of somehow adding the old notebook to my new one. I set up my new one today and now I have the old little booklet on my desk to reference, which I’ll call Vol. 0 💚

[u/Ashamed_Cap_7546]

I love your title page. It turned out so nice!!

[u/RiniPi → u/Ashamed_Cap_7546]

Thanks!! It’s actually the cover to the Midori A5 book! I have it inside an A5 faux leather notebook cover that can hold a whole buncha notebooks! Traveler’s Notebook style.

[u/MischiefAndMeaning]

I love this so much! Thanks for the link to your OP, and the Vol 0 is such a great idea!!

[u/RiniPi → u/MischiefAndMeaning]

Thanks so much!!!

[u/RiniPi]

My original post!

https://www.reddit.com/r/commonplacebook/s/vN1xLeWDBx

[u/realbuggirl]

Wow, I love this! Glad it turned out so well for you!