Recently I spent a day traveling. By mid-day I had eaten nothing but the 17 peanuts that the airline offered me, so during a 3 hour layover I set out to find something resembling actual food and ended up with a pretty darn good food court Mexican lunch of a tasty bean and chicken burrito and some reasonably good chips and salsa.
Detail of bean bag book
As I was about to crumple up and toss the paper bag in which my lunch had been served, I saw the polite admonition on the bag to recycle, and instead tucked it between the pages of The Interestings, my travel book of choice that day.
Back at home yesterday I pulled the brown bag from my carry-on and started piddling with it, and by afternoon I had turned the take-out bag into a spur -of- the-moment journal. I added only odds and ends already in my stash: some blank brown kraft paper pages, a bamboo chopstick, some black rubber bands, a date stamp just for fun, and some color accents from an old gouache paint set of my dad’s.
I’m giving a book-making class a month or so from now. While this one wasn’t completely perfect, I may use it as an example of how to create a nifty little book out of just a few odds and ends.
Floating Ink 
This is very cool! I love these little journals that you can just carry in your bag and jot down ideas as they occur. And when you make them yourself–like you do–you can make it the size you want, little or big, so it always is just what you need. This one is so fun with the black bean/pinto bean question and the way you’ve decorated it. I love it!
Love this!
The colours make it look really good.