There is something magical about unwrapping a leather bound book. I think it’s a bit like opening the wardrobe door that leads to the land of Narnia…where anything is possible.

The Old School collection was designed with one intention in mind…to inspire you to unabashedly pour out your secret dreams and desires. Put them into word pictures…read them and reread them until they become a part of you. Believe in the reality of what is alive in your imagination…for it all begins here. You are the sower, sowing the seeds of your desires. Know your desires are a gift from life itself, and life has the ways and means to bring them into being.

This quote is attributed to Winston Churchill.

It came into my life in one of those moments when I dared to ask the universe to show me that it knew exactly where I was and what I was feeling. Within 30 minutes of me asking for this…an ‘angel’ of a soul walked into my shop. Amongst the many ‘signs’ she unknowingly brought to me, was this quote tattooed on her forearm. Since then it has been up on the wall of the tog shop…it is a daily reminder to me that life knows me, adores me and believes in me.

May it inspire you as well.

“never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about”.

*this piece is made to order. The oxblood cowhide has been discontinued, so I have replaced it with a fudge brown finish that I hand dye. The inset piece with the Churchill quote, is the fudge brown finish. Please allow up to 3 weeks for creation before shipping or pick up.

The details:

• the leather pictured is oxblood cowhide…I have since replaced it with a fudge brown finish, that I hand dye. The inset piece with the Churchill quote, is the fudge brown finish.

• black leather lacing

• the quote is embossed word by word into vegetable tanned cowhide and then hand dyed fudge brown.

• a large pocket (hand dyed fudge brown) with snap closure is stitched onto the inside sleeve for your pens and pencils.

• dimensions of journal cover: 8 1/4 inches x 10 3/4 inches

• moleskin journal is included (lined or unlined)