“Do you want to do something with this box?” A few months ago in October, my husband received a bottle of Martell cognac in beautiful packaging. Interestingly enough it was he who put the box in my hands and asked if I wanted to do something with it. It hadn’t even crossed my mind, but yes, …
For the littlest journal artist
This Christmas I’m gifting a few of my nieces and nephews little junk journals. Inspiration from several talented craft artists gave me the idea to make the covers from candy boxes. I have so much interesting paper of all different types that it took me just a few minutes to gather enough for several small …
Another mail-art junk journal
I’ve been receiving so many postcards and beautiful envelopes filled with such lovely mail art that I decided I needed a “book” to contain it all. That the was the inspiration for putting together this junk journal. In addition to that, I’ve been steadily going through my postage stamps and when I found blocks or …
Adding pages to my US stamp journal
I can honestly say that it has been tremendous fun working on pages and adding content to this vintage US postal stamp junk journal that I made. I brought it along with me to the San Jose Stamp Show a few weeks ago and sat down with a local stamp dealer who helped me locate …
Sewing-themed vintage junk journal
Sometimes I make journals and completely forget to blog about them! That’s such a shame for me, because I spent a good deal of time making these journals and there are some worthwhile things to share. Well, better late than never. I made this back in the spring for a neighbor graduating from 8th grade. …
