Junk Journal, round robin.

Hello everyone. A couple of weeks ago The Ephemera Group got together, as we do, and the tasks in hand was to create a junk journal with each others junk. We decided to make our own signatures, therefore we could choose our own sizes. We started off with a bag of our own junk and had fifteen minutes to create a signature. When the time was up we passed our bags of junk to the next person and made another signature or decorated the one we had already made.

Happy Birthday Shenagh.

Junk at the ready!

All change,

such concentration

More tea and cakes required!

about done for the day..., now the home work is to complete the signatures and build the book.

A day or so later and I have gathered up the junk to finish my signatures. I like mine to contain about six pages.

My nine signatures, one for each person participating in the junk journal round robin.

Adding stitch

And stuff!

The cereal packets, I gessoed and painted.

With acrylics and rollers,

and bubble wrap

stencils and ink.

now for the front cover,

A cereal box.

strengthen the spine with more card.

Decorate with ephemera

both sides.

cover with pattern tissue paper

Create stitching cradle for spine

Mark holes

add holes to each signature

Start adding to journal cover.

Loop of elastic and button for closure.

Make tags for inserts out of card and old gift wrap.

Add to journal

Using the old carrier bag in my signature created handle for my journal.

Used pamphlet stitch for adding the signature will add beads soon

Thanks for looking see you soon. x

Hope the Easter Bunny was generous to you.

Hello, what a lovely time of year......, bulbs are bursting forth, starting to tidy up the garden ready for some alfresco dinning and maybe a few parties, and my favorite car boot sales are open again..., praise be.
This weekend was full of searching for treasure with great success.

Reproduction, Victorian scrapes

A box full of railway office "stuff" plus postcards and greetings cards

Two large boxes of envelopes, one of which is Velum! Plus acetate! 

An illustrated family Bible, with brass corners....,

Wonderful buckles...,

And great interior

Three wonderful journals, two little books and a hole punch

This was just a  selection  of the items I got this week, wonderful stuff to play with, and so inexpensive. You just have to put some time in.

I have been busy with the decoration of the ARTefact toilet, not very exciting you may think, but essential never the less!

I love this old window, came out of an old Manor.

Mirror box over the sink. I have had this box forever.

This door is original to my house when it started lire as the coal house door then the potting shed door. Just love things with history. I bought a very large roll of this toweling so now I am making lot of towels up.

Andrew has been boxing in pipes. Quarry tiles can't go down just yet, but we are getting there. It is amazing how long things take.

Wonderful shell.

Old brass coat hooks which I have had for a while, Andrew mounted them onto wood.

See you all next week, when I hope to unveil some clubs I hope to start.

Happy Easter..., or very nearly anyway.

Sorry I haven't posted for a couple of weeks , but the gremlins have been working their way through virtually everything electrical in my house! Anyway camera now working so off we go.

Last Saturday I was teaching a group of ladies from The York Embroiderers Guild. The subject matter was, A Beginner's Guide to Altered Books. I had a great time and I hope they did too.

Hard at work

Excellent results

I am still making lots of journals and note books for the shows in September, I really want to get all that done before the nice weather, which is starting to happen.
See you later.

EEEKKKK! Nothing to tell really.

Hello peeps, not a lot to show and tell this week, not that I haven't been busy but the hand making and stitching of 300 plus note books doesn't photograph that well. The note books I have made for a fair I will be doing later on in the year.

These are single signature, pamphlet stitch note books for your bag.

Different sizes and front covers,

some with internal flaps,

and pockets.

And after much deliberation I have finally decided upon a closure for the Edgar book.

Nice old brooch, with vel"crow" on the inside. Sorry!