It took me several months to finish, but my mail art junk journal, made from envelope art, is finally complete. I get a lot of mail. A lot of it comes from the art exchanges that I host four times a year. Often, the art people send in comes in beautiful envelopes that I set …
8 reasons to love junk journals
Lots of makers like the idea of creating a junk journal (they’re a lot of work), but they don’t know specifically why they want to create one. I’ll cover eight things to love about junk journals that highlight how special these books are. Maybe you’re familiar with all of them. And maybe, if you haven’t …
My article in Art Journaling
In this April 2020 edition of Art Journaling, I have an article published. I show and talk about a junk journal/glue book I created called “Valuable Papers”. I found an old folder at a garage sale that held envelopes for “valuable papers”. I decided I wanted to repurpose the folder into something like a journal …
Starting a new eclectic-page gluebook
Since I finished collaging all the pages in my eclectic-page, coil bound gluebook, I’ve been meaning to start a new book. It takes time to gather a good set of pages. It also takes effort and good organizational skills. If you’re wondering what a gluebook is, I wrote a post about them. Instagram for inspiration …
A Junk journal of random papers
A whole year ago, in March 2018, I started a junk journal made from random papers that I folded to make pages. Though what is typically called a “junk journal” is not really made from junk (I really hate that term), this junk journal that I assembled last March really is a journal of junk …
