Home Made Recycled Note Books...

So, I had a big clear out of the wardrobes in the garage (yes, we have wardrobes in our garage, because we had the garage converted into a granny flat and my grandparents used to live there..we never did get out of the habit of calling it the garage...).  I went from having 9 boxes of stuff in there to 6, and along with having lots of things to donate I also got rid of a rather massive pile of paper from my teaching days.  I put this in the recycling, but had second thoughts, because I knew most of the paper was unused worksheets and had only been printed or written on on one side, I knew they could be reused for something, so I rescued them. 

I used this tutorial on Instructables and made the paper into a notebook!  I didn't use the measurements she gave though, I just folded my sheets of A4 paper in half, cut along the crease, folded those pieces in half and stacked them together to make the signatures, then measured a piece of card big enough to hold it all in afterwards. 

I used a coco pops box for the cover and some old cotton thread to do the binding.  Even though this is the first book I've ever made it only took about an hour, including cutting and folding the paper, and I was watching TV too!

Have you ever made your own notebook?  How did you do it?