having fun

These journals are about 8x11 and one of them has my good paper in it. the other 2 have brown grocery sacks as pages that I will be painting with gesso before I journal in it. I used cardboard from cereal boxes and other asst. cardboard packaging I found around the house.

These are smaller. the one with the lucky charms closure was simply made with 2 ventricular postcards that I like for the covers. the playing card box journal is one tracy made and has all sorts of odd papers for pages in it. we had so much fun looking around our house for cardboard to make journal out of! the pages are brown grocery sacks.

This was one of those small cereal boxes that I used as a case. the covers of the journals in it are all made out of cards that have been cut to 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 and bound with good paper.
this shows how I attached pieces to make a large enough cover. I have half the pages painted with gesso. Maybe I'll leave the rest unpainted to see how it is, journaling on them.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. was busy with work. and to everyone who was concerned about us in the flooding, we escaped it. It was crazy that a few of you over on the east coast heard about the house on our road (may valley rd in issaquah) that got swept away. We actually know them...the gal used to babysit our girls (15 years ago). But we were safe and sound.

Hey...if anyone is interested, we just had 2 cancellations for our journaling retreat (PLAY) in port townsend at the end of this month. So...let me know if you are interested. We will be making journals like the ones above and other types and then learning all our journaling techniques. It's just 3 whole days from like 9am to 9pm (or later if you want) of pure creating. It's super fun. details are on my website, www.teeshamoore.com under "workshops"