For the last ten years, my handbag has always contained at least one product in which to write in. If I leave the house without my journal, I feel I am missing a little part of myself. I have tested many a diary, notebook and journal and I am currently hooked on the daily moleskine, which is perfect as it gives me a friendly little reminder of how many days I haven't written for. My journal has a little set of rules, all pictures must be securely stuck down with 'good' glue, only artline pens are allowed and there must be an image, photograph or collage every two pages. I'm not sure why this is, but it is the strange little agreement my journal and I have come to.
2009 moleskine...Reading Three Buttons fabulous blog recently I noticed she also had a journal, but this wasn't any ordinary journal, she was spilling things on it, sticking stationary in it and even collecting fruit stickers for it. I was hooked! What was she thinking, how could she ruin a beautiful journal. It was of course 'Wreck this Journal' by Keri Smith, an amazing opportunity to lose oneself in the art of journal deconstruction.
I was so intrigued and determined to change my controlling journal habits, I just had to buy a copy and thanks to the lovely people at Readings, my 'Wreck this Journal' arrived in the mail this afternoon.
Flicking through the pages I was both delighted a terrified. How can I do some of these things to a journal! I sorted carefully through each page to determine what would be a nice easy task to begin with....
This was never going to work, I don't drink coffee and I didn't want to give up a nice hot cup of tea to saturate my new journal! (You can see I was having control issues already).
So I came to another page, that I thought might work a little better.. I mustered up the courage to pull the tea bag out of my cup and...
Tea art was created!
I was so intrigued and determined to change my controlling journal habits, I just had to buy a copy and thanks to the lovely people at Readings, my 'Wreck this Journal' arrived in the mail this afternoon.
Flicking through the pages I was both delighted a terrified. How can I do some of these things to a journal! I sorted carefully through each page to determine what would be a nice easy task to begin with....
This was never going to work, I don't drink coffee and I didn't want to give up a nice hot cup of tea to saturate my new journal! (You can see I was having control issues already).So I came to another page, that I thought might work a little better.. I mustered up the courage to pull the tea bag out of my cup and...
Tea art was created!One page down and I'm only a tiny bit concerned that half the journal smells like tea and is totally warped but I am quickly realising this is the point of this wild ride. I'm really looking forward to documenting my 'Wreck this Journal' adventure and now just have to find the courage to wreck another page!
Hope you are having a delightful Wednesday. I'm off to crochet, read, journal and catch up on some silly reality TV.
Much love and journal wrecking!
Much love and journal wrecking!
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