Nicholas Nickleby

This one-of-a-kind journal is upcycled from a discarded, damaged Franklin Edition of Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby." I preserved the original decorative cover as I found it but added decorative ribbon to anchor the new, blank pages on the inside to the cover. I bound the six signatures of pages (a term for groups of pages folded together) to the book cover using long and kettle stitches. These are visible on the spine. The pages of the journal are made from "water-stressed" paper. I include out-of-context quotes from the original book on several of the pages. These can be used as writing prompts. I used a copy onto cardstock of my original paint, marker, and pen mandala drawing on the inside front and back covers and to reinforce the spine.