HOW TO CREATE A SMALL DIARY WITH RECYCLED ITEMS
We sometimes realize some areas of our house is almost "covered" by useless items such as read magazines, read newspapers and old leaflets, when we buy shoes or other products we always trash the boxes where they were contained and so on.
Now you will not have to go through the annoying step of collecting all them and trash them in some containers along the streets, because if you recycle something it will be better for the environment and for you too who will be happy to give vent to your creativity and show the results to your beloved ones.
Maybe at home you have a cardstock, some white or coloured papers, a button, a long ribbon, scotch-tape and sewing thread. Well, collect them because you will be able to create a simple, quick and nice project for a small diary!
Ready to start?
Take your cardstock, cut it of the shape and dimension you prefer, cover it with a nice coloured paper and fix it with some strings of scotch-tape, but remember to do it when the two part of the cover are closed on themselves, so that the paper will not wrench itself when you will open the cover to see the pages.
Now punch as much small holes as you want just on the fold in the middle of the cardstock, they will be useful to fix the pages to the cardstock.
Take as much papers as you want, they will be the inner pages of your diary, you can choose them white or coloured, use your fantasy, then lean them on the diary in the way they can be situated just in the middle and punch the same numbers of small holes at the same positions to fix them to the cardstock.
Prepare needle-and-thread, choose a sewing thread which suits good with the colours of the cardstock or which sticks out with them and start to sew the pages to the cardstock with some "laps", remember to finish the last lap at the outside of the cardstock, cut the sewing thread, make a tight knot and leave it there, paying attention that it does not come undone.
Take a button and sew it to the knot so that the end of the sewing thread is tightly fixed, if it can help you can glue the inferior extremity of the button to the knot of the sewing thread with strong transparent glue (i.e. Attak).
Now you can tie a long ribbon, which suits good with the colours of the cover or stick out with them, to the button, use again the strong transparent glue and roll it around the cardstock to close the diary, be careful to finish it in a bow just onto the front facade of the cover.
Your small diary is ready, all made by yourself, now you only have to decorate it how you want or give it as a gift, in any way you will surely make a great impression and could be proud of yourself!