Where can I buy a fairly inexpensive journal that looks nice and that I can also inscribe w/ initials?

I noticed a friend has begun writing some poetry. For her birthday, I would like to buy her a personalized journal. Something not overly fancy, but nicer than your grocery store notebook. I’d also really, really love the option of having it engraved/inscribed with her name or initials. I’ve started looking online but everything has been very expensive (like $50 and up up up). I don’t have a huge budget but would like to make this a special gift! Any recommendations of sites or stores I could order such journal from?

Barnes & Nobles have really nice journals and they’re reasonably priced. I have seen leather bound, hardback, lock and key journals, stap- closure journals – they truly have all kinds.

As far as the engraving – if you get a leatherbound journal – many jewelry shops can engrave or if you have the store “Things Remembered” in your mall – they will.

If you’re getting a hard back journal – you can get an 8×8 sheet of scrapbooking paper that goes along with your friends personality and totally recover the front of the journal and make your own inscription or whatever.

Hope this helps !

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