The Secret of Skull Mountain

This is a one-of-a-kind journal made from a discarded copy of the Hardy Boys mystery, The Secret of Skull Mountain, copyright 1948. I embellished the original cover with a skull medallion and woven ribbon, which also anchors the binding stitches. I bound the five signatures (groups of pages folded together) to the book cover using long and kettle stitches, visible on the spine. The pages of the journal are marbled-gold parchment. I have hand torn each page along a zig-zag ruler to size it to the book cover. On some of the pages I include out-of-context quotes from the original book for use as writing prompts.