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    <description>Short letters from Natasa — a journal-making idea, the story behind a video, and a link if you’d like to watch. Roughly once a week.</description>
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      <title>Four ways to transform a cheap notebook</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A bin of cheap plain notebooks, a little fabric, a few scraps, and an afternoon — and the answer to what they could become turns out to be quite a lot…]]></description>
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      <title>Little belts for your journals</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You know that little belt that keeps a journal from flopping open — the one that makes a handmade book look properly finished? It turns out they're not hard to make at all…]]></description>
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      <title>A batch of little pocket journals</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Not a full journal, not a big album — just tiny spine-bound booklets that actually finish. An afternoon's work that leaves you with a dozen lovely little things…]]></description>
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      <title>Projects from an old calendar</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There is always an old calendar somewhere in the house — tucked in a drawer, stacked by the recycling, handed over by someone who knew you'd find a use. Here are five reasons to be glad you kept it…]]></description>
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      <title>Raiding the cereal box stash</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A stack of cereal box panels, some baker's twine, and a binding method that needs no needle and no punched holes. This one is more satisfying than it has any right to be…]]></description>
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      <title>Binding your sentimental cards</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If you find it hard to throw away the cards people have written to you — but a loose stack in a drawer doesn't quite feel like keeping them either — this might be exactly the thing…]]></description>
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      <title>A binding with a beautiful spine</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Some bindings do their best work by disappearing. Coptic stitch is the opposite — those little braided stitches along the outside are the whole point…]]></description>
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      <title>An easy no-sew binding</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If the word 'binding' has ever put you off trying bookbinding, tab binding might be the way in — no sewing, no special tools, and every single page lies completely flat…]]></description>
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      <title>Never buy printed papers again</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Have you ever balked at the price of a pack of printed papers, then bought them anyway because making your own felt too uncertain? This letter is for that feeling…]]></description>
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      <title>Five-minute project ideas</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[As makers, we don't always have a whole free afternoon — but we almost always have fifteen minutes and a pile of scraps that's been quietly judging us from the corner…]]></description>
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      <title>Making your own fancy pens</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you ever look at a plain ballpoint pen sitting next to a handmade journal and feel like it just doesn't belong there? These three approaches fix that, using almost nothing but what's already in your stash…]]></description>
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      <title>Five easy ideas using newspaper</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Newspaper is thin, textured, completely free, and has that warm, grungy quality that's genuinely hard to replicate with anything else. Once you see it as a material rather than recycling…]]></description>
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      <title>Using up your fabric scraps</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The same simple process — layered, sewn or glued, inked at the edges — looks completely different depending on which fabrics you reach for. That's what keeps you coming back to the table…]]></description>
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      <title>Quick journals from 12x12 paper</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A single 12×12 sheet, a few scored folds, and a pamphlet stitch — and you have a pocket journal worth gifting or selling. The construction takes minutes; the choosing is the good part…]]></description>
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      <title>A junk journal from four envelopes</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Who doesn't have a few envelopes tucked somewhere, waiting to become something? This little journal uses just four of them — and the results are much lovelier than the method deserves…]]></description>
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      <title>The easiest journal you&apos;ll ever make</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If you ever wanted to make a proper hardcover journal but the sewing part keeps stopping you — the measuring, the hole-piercing, the signatures flopping everywhere — there's a simpler way…]]></description>
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