Custom Sketchbook

I got a brilliant idea (that is not new) last night. I've been wanting to do more sketching, drawing, etc. especially on trips and to do more architecture which I feel is much easier with pencils/markers, etc.... I have so many sketchbooks and papers and it is hard to decide which to take along. I decided to make my own custom sketchbook with sheets from many of my papers. Where I work, we have one of those spiral binder machines and so I made a new sketchbook and bound it. This is the same size as the watercolor sketchbook that I bought with James Gurney's suggestion, so it will fit on my new wood pochade thingy. That book is a watercolor paper, and I am still not comfortable with that medium for architecture. My custom book is mainly colored papers so when I don't want to do a wet painting, I can grab the new book.

Inside are lots of papers by Strathmore, Canson, and others. Pictures don't describe it much, and it was hard to take photos. I went a bit overboard with the number of papers, but eventually, I can remove pages and put a smaller binding comb on it. The blue sketchbook is the one I bought on Gurney's recommendation. The photo is an odd angle, but both are close to the same size. I put a title page in before each brand so that I would remember what the paper was....