Bullet vintage newspaper hand-bound ultra smooth dotted paper in an old buying French book via upcycling

This vintage book Le Tour de France by Deux Enfants (middle course) becomes a unique notebook that will follow you everywhere. Fans of bullet journal and planner? Its dotted blank pages are just waiting for your ideas! Whether you turn it into a buying diary, travel diary, guestbook, pregnancy diary, or to draw, the choice is yours!

Size:
 Pages (double-sided = 2 pages): 144
 Height: 18.3 cm
 Width: 10.8 cm
 Slice thickness: 1.9 cm
 Paper type: white to dotted, 90 grams (+ 8 pages of the original book)

I bound the pages by sewing by hand with waxed cotton thread, using a Coptic binding to ensure an optimal flat opening.

More than a notebook, an upcycled book, these are stories, memories of the first reading of a favorite book. And to upcycle these old books that I collect full of dust, tasks, is to offer them a new life and avoid them the trash.
WWF estimates that depending on the scenarios, the end of life (household waste and recycling) would concern 107,000 to 233,000 t/year of books, all sources combined.

The notebooks I propose have been washed but they can have marks, stripes, discoloration, or other. It's upcycling, not new. But it is in old books that we make the best notebooks!
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Expedition:
The items are packed in tissue paper and shipping is made via Colissimo.
I try to reuse cardboard packages already used to limit the impact on the environment, but sometimes I do not have any on hand and therefore use new ones that I invite you to reuse later for your own shipments.

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