Wk. 15, Book 15: Lotus's Gratitude Book

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Lotus saw Book 11, titled "The Women's Series Part III," and as is her way with my favorite keepsakes, including evening gowns, certain pieces of jewelry and purses, she wanted that book, too. However, because I'm not quite ready to hand it over to anyone, I proposed making a special keepsake just for her. 

Like Book 11, this was also a small spiral notepad, @ 4.50" x 3". I covered the front and back covers with a textured deco paper in one of her favorite colors, pink, and added sequence and cloth flowers. I also suggested that since she's moving back to Baltimore later this spring after living in southern California for a year, she could use

this little journal to record all the things she likes about her current community, which she claims she doesn't like so much. The idea is to get her to shift her internal conversation to a focus of gratitude, hence the title of this book.

For the inside covers, I used an embossed card stock with a floral pattern and added stick-on hearts, one of Lotus's favorite symbols. It was her idea to add the little applique at the bottom of each page in the book, which adds volume to the signatures. 

So now I'm thinking about buying a bunch of these little spiral note pads and redesigning them for various purposes. I'll let you know when they are available for sale via my website at partlowart.com.