I Made My OWN "Moleskine" Pocket Notebook, and NEW VDS COVER! 

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Love the leather cover ❤❤❤. Thanks for sharing and your notebook hack 😮. I was able to get the 23-24 daily Moleskine thanks to you! I love fat notebooks too. Been hooked on your channel for long time and I too miss older YTubers who no longer post 😢. Love your chatty videos where you share food ideas, what your drinking and the notebooks your using at the moment. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I love your enthusiasm talking about your notebooks! I get just as excited! Notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, washi tape, stickers, stamps and all things stationery brings me joy too! Thank you for sharing!!!

i’ve literally been obsessed with your content recently. i’m an artist but recently i’ve been getting more into writing and journaling. at this point i’ve become a collector of different pens and inks haha. i like watching your videos in my free time to see what kinds of products are out there, i also just find your voice very relaxing and comforting. it’s nice to know im not the only stationary geek out there

I also dream about pocket Moleskine expanded. My favorite notebook search would be over. 🙂

I love that you are still team Moleskine. I still love my Moleskines!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="658">10:58</a> you are right, "Myrtille" (pronounced "mee-r-tee-y") is "blueberry" in French ♥

gurl! yer a genius! i have about 40 of those dollar tree notebooks, i mainly sketch in them or journal...been running through them super quick..about 2 in a month... i might not want it trimmed but the idea is genius! 😍😍😍 love the cover btw

Yes please Moleskine!! Make a pocket version of the hobo weeks mega!

Hi Michelle, OMG that cover is gorgeous! my birthday is tomorrow July 13th so I may consider ordering in the future when I can better afford it. I love how you design your own and make sense of the reasons why you added or changed a feature; it totally makes sense. Sending Luv your way always ❤🌹📖

This video came just in time. Iv been debating on only purchasing a moterm cover and then using blank notebooks for 2025 for a more affordable planner year and you just convinced me even further to go for it! Thanks for sharing as always 🙌🏽

I cant describe how much I love your videos. Please never stop hahah

I messaged the moleskine website a few weeks ago requesting an undated daily pocket planner with extra note pages but keeping the yearly/monthly overview 😊 I also suggested they release exclusive covers each year to keep customers coming back. What a dream!!

I have a simple leather cover with bands, from Patricia Nash. I think it was sold with just a notebook. But, it's the perfect size for the WM Pen + Gear daily planners. I LOVE it! I cut down an eccolo monthly planner, so I would have a place to see the entire year, and cut down a Dollar Tree notebook and put in the back, for notes. I absolutely love my little creation.

I think I will use this brilliant idea of yours to make a chunky a5 slim notebook with some of the a5 ones I have that aren’t as thick as I’d like. So glad you shared this idea! 💡

Good idea with the multiple notebooks being bonded together. I'd be able to save the trip to the office supply store, I'd just take mine out to the shop and use the chop saw and cut it down to the size I want. A band saw would be the best way, but with a good blade on a table saw or chop saw you could get the same results if you don't want to go to the store to have your custom notebooks cut down....for rounding the corners a belt or disc sander would make quick work of the corner rounding. The black tape is a great idea, although there are several different colors available now to kind of match your task. I like the Traveler's style passport size notebooks, and have been thinking about making a multi-notebook like you did, just to have 1 notebook in the cover rather than several. Another thing you could do is buy lined, grid, or blank notebooks, and combine them together as well for different notebook tasks. I don't really journal, I use them for notes and task lists for home and work.

I too miss Kent from Oz. I wish he could post more videos

My Myrittle ships this week and I’m so excited. I got a sample with my customs I got this weekend from May. And I’m even more excited. And now I think I might need a JL brown with it too. Oh no 🤑

Love the color of that cover !

Love it! I actually already had this idea in mind to replace my stalogy due budget cuts. Just an FYI, I brought a cheap brand of a twsbi eco dupe on Amazon, Epakh- 4 pack refillable fountain pens, filled them with noodler's black ink and they write on that dollar tree paper beautifully without bleed through and very little ghosting. In fact I like the Epakh brand pens better than my twsbi...they are more inky and flow better. I brought them for my teen boys for homeschool as they were going through gel pens so fast with all the writing they do. Since it came with 4 pen I grabbed one as well and have been waiting with it all month and find it's to be my go to writing pen on all the papers even on Tomoe River paper, now as we all know Tomoe River paper takes some dry time, but this pen actually makes me like Tomoe River paper. Depending on the paper you might have to watch for transfer ink issues especially if your journaling fast and page after page. I just use another piece of loose paper in-between as I journal and don't have a problem. They hold a good deal of ink and I feel they're a good weight. I have small hands and I'm soft handed when I write. My twsbi eco always felt very heavy and my hand would get very tired writing with it. I don't have that issue with the Epakh brand. It does post well but I'm not one who post the cap when using fountain pen, but note that I have only have experience with twsbi eco and the Epakh brand. The Epakh brand is making me more interested in fountain pens where the twsbi eco did not make me feel like hey fountains are the way to go. My boys are on summer break so I don't have a full review from them yet, but their first impressions were good and they are willing to use them. One did some sketches with it and liked it quite well. At the moment I would say it's the perfect pen.

It's gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing the notebook hack. I recently purchased my 1st Mileskine and I love it ❤

I love doing my own thing. DIY notebooks especially! Living in a smaller town, with no mall I don’t want to drive two hours to look for moleskin books. I was shopping on Amazon and was tricked with the sale price when they tacked on 7.00 per notebook for delivery.

i did this with composition notebooks. I also went to staples and had them cut the book down. I just told them the dimensions i wanted and they cut them perfectly. Then I put the 3 books together and now i have a jumbo 5x7 comp notebook :)

I made one tonight!! Brilliant!!! Thank you for sharing! I bought 3 more to make a second one. While I was at Dollar Tree, I also found blank B6 size notebooks that were bound the same, but they were filled with different colors of paper. I was on a mission for these, but now I keep wondering...🤔

Beautiful cover. I love the hack. I did that with two Hobonichi plain notebooks.

I have a JL from VDS in standard TN size with a chunky snap closure and LOVE it!! Yours is gorgeous too!

I’m here from the 2013 era too 😊 I bought a Filofax because of Ken from Oz, I enjoyed watching him prep his pocket moleskine. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1256">20:56</a>

Hello! New subscriber here! I am really getting into these journals more lately. I haven't used a moleskin yet. I also haven't used a pocket notebook yet. Only TNs. But wanting to get into the pocket size. Thanks for the info on these!

That leather and the color of the leather is to die for!!!

Hey! I’m not sure if you guys have Dollarama stores in the US but I’m in love with their pocket sketchbooks that look similar to what you showed in this video. They are the Studio brand and have 288 pages. I love them.

Yes Myrtille is just Blueberry in French ! Love your hack, this "moleskine" looke comfy i love it

Beautiful leather!

I used to get free inserts from "my life in one place" years ago. I don't remember the gentleman name, though 😅

I know this is not what you did at all. But I wonder about getting a Hobonichi 5 year in a6, that is outdated to achieve what you did. I know they are slightly bigger. But it’s a thought for someone who wants a lot of paper in 1 smallish book. 😊

Wooooooo that cover is drool-worthy! So beautiful 🤩

That cover is stunning!!😍

I think your Dollar Tree hack is wonderful!!! OMG! I am in LOVE with your new VDS cover!!!!!! I don't have the money in July to get one. Will they still have that pink in August?

I love your excitement me and thank you for showing us the diy notebook I am going to try it the only thing is i like neeeeed a monthly but I hate drawing them in. But I love the notebook and the cover ❤❤

Wow, that cover! Gorgeous!

How did you put the glitter on the dollar tree notebook?!

I did this once. Only difference I glued my spine then put tape over. But if just tape works I would rather skip a step lol

Absolutely beautiful!!! 🤎🤎🤎

My Aunts name is a variation of Myrtille. She is named Myrtus. We call her Mertie. 😊 It is related to blueberries. I.e. bilberry or whortleberry. Funny family name for a funny family.

Yes say it louder for us in the back who have been watching this topic on YT for a long time. I miss Rachel Dunnaway(sp) she’s in law now. But am hearing you from the U.K.!

Question- is the exact color of your VDS Nomad Junior just called “brown”? Or is it “dark brown” Janet Leather???

Hello! I absolutely love all of videos. Always so informative and cool. I also love your bracelet. Is that a pandora? This is a beautiful cover also!!!!

😍Very pretty cover!!!

Beautiful cover 👍💯

TFS great hack 👏

DO you keep every notebook , even the one you just make scribbles in?

Oh I’ve been calling it Myrtle 😝 oops

Whats your favorite

Officially at the point I hit the like button before the video even starts playing because I just know im going to love it. 🫶