I love finding great values in my local craft stores. Often I will find something and buy it, get it home and think, what am I going to do with this!!!! So was the case last summer. My friend Becky and I went to the Craft Warehouse and they had these really great journals for only a dollar a piece. So I of course bought 5. Brought them home and put them aside.

As Christmas approached I found them in my closet gathering dust and decided they would make great presents for my daughter and daughters-in-law. I went back to the craft store and bought a few sheets of paper and some already made roses from the scrapbooking section. Which was a lot of fun for me, since I am not a scrap booker and hardly ever go to that section of the store, I was amazed at all the great things to use in crafting they had. When I got home I just did a little cutting and gluing.  The journals also originally came with really cheap paper covered pencils. Truth be told I didn’t feel let hassling with the pens to try to cover them with paper, so I threw them away and bought nicer pens to put into their place. Here is a picture of a couple of my creations.