After a long, hard day at the office, Stamford lawyer Audrey Medd loves to settle into her large arts and crafts room and make notebooks — using recycled boxes of everything from Cheerios to Friskies and Milk-Bone.

At first it was just a release from the day's stressful demands. But over the past year, the fun, colorful notebooks and journals have been in high demand. So much in demand, that Medd has recently filled wholesale orders from as far away as Texas and Australia.