#many fingers were hurt in the making of this book please bookbind responsibly

[medouse]

how to make your own shitty little notebooks as told by someone who is not in any way qualified to make shitty little notebooks

enter some sort of bacchanalian haze

take a bunch of??? construction paper??? despite having perfectly fine printer paper?

take all the blue, pink, and some of the white pages of construction paper for trans flag signatures

cut them all to a5-ish size... which kind of. defeats part of the purpose of construction paper

forget that the flag is blue pink white pink blue not pink blue white blue pink. catch it before you start sewing

realize you dont have an awl

use the needle you'll be sewing with (TERRIBLE IDEA </3)

do like. 17 signatures. they're all kinda fucky but that adds to the charm dammit

take a bundle of 7. this will be the notebook of the night. because you're doing this at night. for some reason.

sew each signature with green regular sewing thread. not like. waxed or anything. but make it like. 4 ply. (take your thread and fold it on itself. thread through needle. align with other side of thread. tie off.)

forget to bind the spine properly.

fuck it. glue exists. glue the fuck out of everything.

get superglue on your hand. fuck superglue.

remove superglue.

take some cabbage (scrap fabric not the food) and glue it to the spine. ykno all shitty like.

get superglue all over your hands again because you opened a new tube and it has a fucking VENDETTA apparently.

goddamn it. remove superglue again once more with feeling.

go to bed because it is now, somehow 4 in the morning

grab cardboard from boxes and the hot glue gun because FUCK THAT you are not trying to superglue your hands a THIRD time

hotglue some cardboard to the spine and touch up the fabric cover while you're at it honestly

chant "it doesnt have to be good it just has to be done" (essential)

realize that you could be winning at Smoke Weed and Do Something, (You Don't Have To Smoke Weed But You Do Need To Do Something.)

alas getting high with hot glue is a very dumb idea. and like. you don't have to get high but it'd be fun. (maybe later)

take cardboard and kinda eyeball a cover. you COULD measure sure but ehhhh... ? fuck around and find out.

glue the cover on and then realize you could have made a nice bookmark </3

print out some inner cover pages. we aren't losers. make it PRETTY(...ISH.)

glue cover pages.

take more cabbage (again fabric scraps, not the food) and glue to cover.

congratulations! you have a notebook! it's shit tho so don't let it get wet.

anyway so i have like. i think this is technically my second notebook but this is the first USEABLE one. so i'm counting it as my first. when i say shitty i do mean it affectionately. I'm very proud of myself here.

i can't really in good faith tell you to follow in my footsteps but like. test your ability sometime, it's fun. fucking around and finding out is good for your health.