Began thinking how "we" would like to present "our" notebook or lapbook.

Consider creating quilt themed pages and adding them to your lapbook, in honor of this Civil War era tradition.

If so, the website "Lapbook Lessons" has a nice selection of templates for the Addy book.

A lap book, lapbook, layer book, flap book, or shutter book is a type of single-subject book created by a student, generally as a supplement to a curriculum.