#junk book

[milkweedman]

Beat the quilting desires (for now) by sewing a little junk book.

Assembling the signatures. The yellow paper makes up the bulk of the book; it's the last dozen or so tea-stained pages of a yellow notepad. The rest is some green tissue paper I found and immediately saved, a drawing I did on the back of some job training stuff, cut up trader Joe's paper bag, and a stanped parchment paper bag from a store that I kept largely intact, so it can still hold things.

Ive sewn a lot of chapbooks in my time but just single signature ones as far as I recall. So the signature sewing went fine and the part where I sewed the signatures together went not as well. But it's a junk book, who cares. And I learned valueable lessons like 'even stitches actually matter now just on a structural level' and 'why would you do this with a fan pointed at you'.

Its 46 pages long. The cover is a sparkling canned water box I cut up with bits from the only newspaper I am subscribed to (thru my union), which is a union newspaper. The cover decoration is what I thought was the most interesting article that neatly fit--Amazon union joins Teamster.

I did everything in a very backwards order and put myself in a position where I needed to glue like 20 sticky notes to this thing, and then realized I actually don't have to, and didn't. It would look nicer if I had, but I'm glad I didn't. That's the exact opposite point of this kind of book.

Funnily enough the only thing I didn't add, out of these random scraps I found/saved but hadn't packed yet (I have tons of bits of interesting paper, all of it packed right now) was the one piece that made me do this book anyway; a baffler subscription sticky note that has a stamp of a shoe on a banana peel. I thought it wasn't bad. No idea where it went tho; may well have been one of the sticky notes I folded up and used to spread the glue. Oh well.

It wasn't intended to be labor themed, but at least it's relevant. Idk what I'll write in it, if anything. Good detour altho I didn't really have time for it. I like it though.

[chogiwa6192]

Junkbook Shop

In light of my immanent move to South Korea, I am opening an (unofficial) shop for my craft! My hobby is called junkbooking, and it's similar to scrapbooking except each page is based off of a color or a concept. I have pages based on color, as well as some based on different Stray Kids songs or the boys themselves!

If you don't see something you like but would like something like this, feel free to message me and we can work on a commission. When I move to Korea, I won't have my materials so commissions are open until August 18th, 2024. I only have stickers for Stray Kids, so I will be unable to accept K-pop commissions for other groups.

The quantity of each page is exactly one, as each one is unique! To peruse the shop This Link will take you to Google photos where you can see all of the pages up for grabs and the prices attached! Every craft is under $8!

To place an order please fill out this form!

Thank you and happy browsing!

[the-cheese-slut]

New junk book

[craftgremlin]

Finally making another junk journal! My mother wants one for Christmas, so I'm trying to go with a floral/gardening theme?

Only got half the cover painted so far, will paint the other side when it dries but here's the outside cover:

[delusional-delirium]

I made a junk journal! Gonna use it whenever I find something useless I like, or dislike.

[honeysweetcloud]

Here it is!!! It's finally done! I'm so happy with it!!! I got the idea and instructions from @goblinblogging 's awesome post, thank you!

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More pictures of some of my favourite spreads below...

I left some room for writing/drawing and even some pockets for collecting stuff in.

I made the cover from a cereal box, and most of the pages are card or paper. I put in a lot of different textures too!

I had so much fun doing this, I definitely recommend this to anyone creative who has some free time on their hands!

[tanyasakurai]

Junkbook

[norineking]

I converted an old book I found at a thrift shop into a sketchbook. Can’t wait to see what inspiration this brings out of me. I started off with a self portrait on the cover, mostly to reflect these new braids. More to come!