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Alternative Hamper Gifts: Mini Journal in The Sunday Telegraph

December 02, 2012

Mini Journal Christmas stocking filler stationery gift

Make an Alternative Hamper with a Mini Journal and more...

I'm delighted to see my Mini Journals recommended by the Sunday Telegraph in a feature on homemade hampers. As well as oodles of delicious food and drink goodies, it suggests a few 'bonus presents... a little something extra', including my Mini Journals, 'bonsai notebooks hand bound in goatskin'. Other interesting gift ideas include a Christmas dinner vegetable seed box for your green-fingered chums and an Himalayan salt plate for... I don't know who. Because I don't know what that is. Do you?

Sunday Telegraph recommends Mini Journals handmade by Susan GreenMini Journal: red and white leather miniature notebook stationery gift

"Bought to go in my wife's Christmas cracker. A lovely little gift." - Paul, Cheshire

Mini Journal Christmas Gift Ideas

A Mini Journal is a luxurious yet affordable gift for the stationery lover who has everything. Mini Journals have 100 pages of sublimely smooth Superfine paper for little lists, notes, small sketches and perhaps inspiring quotations or affirmations. Most are bound in leather, some have silk or linen finishing touches, and I have non-leather options for vegans, bound in gorgeously soft, eco-friendly cork textile.

5 ways to use a Mini Journal this Christmas:

  1. Pop a Mini Journal into your teenager's Christmas stocking
  2. Delight your designated Secret Santa work colleague with a Mini Journal
  3. Include a Mini Journal in your homemade Advent calendar
  4. Make one of these little notebooks the main gift in your homemade Christmas cracker (thanks to my creative customer Paul for this great idea!)
  5. Okay... do what the Sunday Telegraph recommends and make up a fun alternative hamper!

Huge thanks to journalist Harriot Lane Fox and The Sunday Telegraph for supporting independent designer-makers. Merry Christmas, everyone, I hope you have some fun choosing your gifts this year! Scroll down to buy your Mini Journals...

Susan the bookbinder

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P.S. You may enjoy reading: 10 Mini Journal Prompts for Mindfulness and Creativity

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Bound by Hand is the home of finely crafted books handmade in the UK by artisan bookbinder Susan Green. My books are made for everyone, everywhere and have been featured in Country Homes & Interiors, Country Living, ELLE and the Sunday Telegraph, amongst others. Working from my Dorset studio, I ship worldwide with express delivery options. Click here to contact me.


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