I had the cover ready for a while. It is made on cardboard - I don't remember where I found it, but it was already folded as a cover, spine included. I covered it with walpaper. I covered the spine with some scraps of leather and I added some beads, then I realized that this beaded look was not for me and I gave up on it. I made two signatures out of older journal pages that had no home. A third signature was made from pages reclaimed from old envelopes and left over papers. Voila ...