Decorating My Food Diary

I want to start keeping better track of what I am eating. So I decided to cover a composition notebook so that my diary would be pretty. That is the project I worked on today. Here are pictures of the steps I took to cover the notebook.

I used a regular composition notebook, some wallpaper samples (from some sample books my sister gave me) and glue.

I picked the pattern I wanted to go on the back

 it also wraps around to the front

it folds over and is glued down to the inside of the book making neat corners

I then use another piece to cover the wallpaper that is wrapped in from the outside

close up of one corner

 I chose this pattern for the front of the diary...

so spring like and cute

Then I added a butterfly that I cut from a separate piece of wallpaper, it is a sample of a border that coordinates with the wallpaper. 

I also used a permanent marker to write on the cover. My other markers will not write on the wallpaper, it just smears.

So that is my new food diary. Now to write down everything I eat and calculate and write down the WW points too. Hopefully I can loose more weight now or at least know why I am not loosing if I keep track of my food intake and I am honest with myself.

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