Stationary crisis averted

My secret drawer of pretty notebooks is empty! However, my stack of scrap paper waiting for a purpose is well stocked, and I still have some very pretty wrapping paper left over from my birthday, just waiting around to be used to cover something.
So I trimmed the paper:

Laid one sheet on the wrapping paper:

Covered the sheet in the wrapping paper and taped it on:

Stacked the rest of the paper neatly on top:

Folded:

Sewed from the inside:

Along the spine:

And, since by then I had forgotten what I wanted it for in the first place, put it on the shelf with the rest of my notebooks...

PS- thank you for the lovely comments about my silly striped cardigan. I'm still not convinced it's quite suitable for, say, work, but I shall wear it with a spring in my step nonetheless!