Since I filled up my Doodle Book, I’ve found that I miss it. Doodling is fun, and a great way to avoid boredom during ad breaks. So I’ve made another one:

Remember how I wanted to find a flexible facing material to make fabric-covered long stitch books out of? Well, I gathered some likely contenders:

It’s ironic that I’ve gone from having an excess of plastic shopping bags to far too many reusable shopping bags. But perhaps I can use them as facing. We also get a lot of bubblewrap lined parcel bags. Though the Australian ones are recyclable, the ones from the UK and US aren’t (but I tested an Aussie one because that’s all we had at the time). The roll is of rubber non-slip lining for rugs that I got from Reverse Art Truck. It’s kind of floppy, so I’m not 100% sure it’ll work.

I decided to test the bubblewrap facing first. PVA glue worked fine. I used the bookcloth as the lining, too, then added a press stud fastener. The resulting cover has a padded feel, but is also rigid enough to remain flat.

After cutting up some brown paper shopping bags for the internal pages, I decided to try something new:

I painted over some of the type printed on the bags with black and white paint. There were a lot more type-printed pages than before. While I enjoyed working with it last time, I also like the idea of working with the white and black painted pages.

There are a lot more pages than last time, so it’ll keep me going for a while.

And I’m also toying with the idea of doodling on the cover, too. Wherever inspiration takes me.