Because I am always looking for new and better ways to avoid doing anything remotely productive, I thought I would sew up slipcovers for a couple of moleskine notebooks.

Not only are they not sock monkeys, but they’re actually Dane’s notebooks. He politely suggested that the pink one was maybe not especially masculine. Thus did I make the other one, which still doesn’t scream “MAN!” but is rather less pink.

I’m sure he appreciates me.