This is an altered book I made for my sister for Christmas this year. I wanted to give her a cookbook of all our favorite family Christmas recipes. But I wanted it to be not only functional, but pretty and creative too.

I started with several medium size lunch sacks and then just went to town! It is embellished with ribbons and buttons and brads and staples and...well, you get the idea.

The lunch sacks are folded in half and then ribbon is threaded through holes punched in the "spine". So the sacks create the pages as well as "envelopes" or "pockets" where she can stick other recipes if she wants to