Junk Journal ~

My junk journal has been a little slow going, but I did get the journal sewn together with one signature.  I equate a signature to being a chapter in a book.  You can have as few or as many as you wish and can have as many pages as desired in a signature.

My cover is a piece of an old cutter quilt that was given to us by Linda who is teaching.  The quilt was beyond repair so we were able to use that for our cover if desired.  I added bits of coffee dyed lace, buttons, etc, which helps to hide the holes.

The front ~

Do you recognize the round "picture frame"?  Remember the crochet pulls on a string from the old fashioned window shades?  That is what I used.  The heart was fussy cut from a strip of lace and the thin piece of lace was purchased at Dollar Tree and coffee stained.

The back ~ another piece of fussy cut lace.

Here are a few pages I completed ~ on my own 😁  I think my journal will be much more simplistic than many I have seen.  Mostly stained, primitive looking items and not at all artsy fartsy.

This page is actually an envelope and where the red tab is on the right you can put little treasures in the "pocket".

Love the paisley.

The inside front cover is a piece of card stock I rust dyed.  Today at class Linda showed us how she rust dyes items . . . fabric, lace, paper, rick rack, etc.  I can't wait to see the results.  I need to find more rusty stuff to use.

My granddog Kali.  Son J and girlfriend took a weekend trip to Kentucky.  Of course they picked the coldest weekend so far this winter to have me dogsit, but seriously I can't complain about our winter so far.  It does me good to go for a walk - even a short one - in the cold.

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Pug hugs 😊
Lauren