I have made books. Still miles away from feeling 100%, but I have made books. Sewn boards binding paired with dotted grid pages makes for some elegant and totally one of a kind bullet journals. If you're interested in giving one of these a home, or just like to see all the details, check them out in the Paperiaarre shop.
I like to make the dotted grid pattern pretty light compared to any of the commercially made dotted grid notebooks I've seen - just like the lines on a lined paper the dotted grid is supposed to act as a guide for whatever you put on the page, not take the center stage. This light gray dot grid lets your work stand out and doesn't distract you visually.
My very own bullet journal is still a work in progress. Lying in bed for almost a week doesn't help when you've got tons of ideas and things to do. I'm still hopeful I can finish my artists' book of the month in time, even though I'm very quickly running out of days - it only needs a case and then it's ready for photos. But as usual, I'm not going for the simplest solution...