Never knowing when inspiration is going to strike, I always carry a sketchbook with me. I carry a few different cases of pens and pencils.
I also carry hard drives and flash drives and cords and adapters and tools and a whole lot of other things because I never know when I’m going to need them.
I carry a lot of crap with me.
I’m getting better. I used to carry a Disgear Discus filled with data CD’s that had fonts and utilities. You never know when a digital emergency may arise.
Yeah, my backpack weighed a ton!
Jamming all of that crap into a travel bag and commuting to work with it has been putting a beating on my sketchbooks. It’s part of the reason I encrust the covers with stickers — to protect the doodle pads, but I don’t want to put stickers on my Pen+Gear Sketch Diary with the nifty clear sleeve. That wouldn’t do.
The book shifting around my bag was also smearing some of the pencil drawings within. The corners were getting dented, too.
I needed a way to protect my sketchbooks. What I needed was a new slipcase.
Happy New Year! More photos behind the cut. 
Similar to my Mac Minty which I have written about 
After baking dozens of cookies for Christmas, a meat pie, and a turkey the size of a Volkswagen – I decided to make a tart. Good way to empty out the fruit bowl on the kitchen table and have something delicious to snack on! 
