How to add Elastic to Notebooks and Journals

I came up with an idea to make it easy to apply elastic to my notebooks and journals; using a hair pin.

 It has been struggle before coming up with this hair pin idea a few days ago. 

I kept a box of these hair pins when I closed my hair salon in 2000. 

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And to finish it off apply the elastic over the journal.

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