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Doodled Hand Bound Journal

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A while back I purchased two hand bound journals from Tracey at Our Little Cottage Shop.   She makes beautiful hand bound journals.  I asked her to make me a plain journal that I could doodle.  She sent me two beautifully bound journals.  The tan paper she used for the cover was perfect to doodle, it had a nice smooth finish and bound with black thread.  The inside pages are a nice weight to either write on or draw.  I've been looking at them for several weeks thinking about what I was going to design on them. I was worrying about booboos, but there is no booboos that can't be fixed so I quit worrying and just grabbed my pen and started. I'm using a #8 Micron as usual, here's a pic of the journal and my first stroke of the pen.  I just build on what I start with, no real plan, totally freehand.  It's finished and signed.  I hope Tracey likes what I did to her journal.   Now to start the second one. Here's a look at the final de...