I had a great afternoon yesterday with three lovely ladies who came to my studio to learn how to make a junk journal. A junk journal is a hand made book, made entirely from recycled items. Everyone brought along papers, cardboard and fabric that they had at home and that otherwise had no use, and…
I had the pleasure of meeting three lovely ladies today who booked a Make a Junk Journal workshop on demand as a group. They all had a specific project in mind for future junk journal making, and it was great to chat with them and hear all about their plans. They each made a beautiful…
I had a fun morning showing two lovely ladies how to recycle papers, cardboard packaging, wrapping paper and fabric from around their homes in to hand bound journals that are unique to them. All three of us turned out to be keen knitters and crocheters too, so we had lots of good yarn chat, as…
An absolutely stunning Junk Journal made by a lovely lady on my workshop today. She used old magazine pages for the interior, and some old cardboard packaging and left over wrapping paper for the covers. We added a few papers and a piece of fabric from my own collection to finish it off. We had…
Shown above are the two beautiful ‘junk journals’ made by the lovely ladies on my workshop this morning. We used keepsakes, scrap paper, wrapping paper, cardboard packaging and more to make a hand bound journal. These journals can now be used as memory books and more keepsakes can be added. On the workshop we were…
A look at all the wonderful ‘junk journals’ my class participants made in my workshop this week. No need for expensive art materials, these journals were all made from ‘junk’ found around the house – paper, cardboard, old magazines and wrapping paper, odds and ends of string and scraps of fabric. Journalling is a wonderful…
