faraway places

I had a big clear-out of my supply cupboard the other day and found heaps of papers and cards and old maps and pages from fallen-apart books. I find old maps very aesthetically pleasing and have been known to frame them for wall art in the past, but these had seen better days, so I made some notebooks with map covers. To make them, I cut lots of papers to the same size (most of the pages are recycled newsprint), held them together with pegs and used an industrial-sized needle on the sewing machine to stitch down the spine. I will set aside most of these for my table at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair in December, but the others will be little gifts, I think. I made some similar books last year-  but these are a bit smaller, with more pages and faraway places on the cover for day-dreaming purposes. Christmas in Svalbard, anyone?