Notebook La Vie Familiale et Ménagère bound with quality white retailer paper 130g in an old book via upcycling

This vintage book La Vie Familiale et Ménagère from the 1960s becomes a unique notebook that will follow you everywhere.

Whether you turn it into a diary, travel diary, pregnancy diary, or to draw, its blank pages are just waiting for your ideas!
But this notebook remains the ideal gift for an occasion such as a wedding, a bachelorette party, an engagement. You can paste photos and write small words that will remain a fabulous memory!

The original pages of the book are period, and have a lot of surprises in store for couples in the 21st century! You will also find a mini Total calendar from 1967 that was slipped between the pages of the book when I bought it in a garage sale.

Size:
 Pages (double-sided = 2 pages): 120
 Height: 21 cm
 Width: 14.2 cm
 Slice thickness: 2 cm
 Paper type: FSP white, 130 grams (+ 24 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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