Fragile Things are Beautiful

Many years ago, when I was a kid in school, I used to collage magazines so that I would have these fashion and design vision boards I could flip through. Once, I made this fabric magazine from Indian saree material and tear sheets of couture. I looked at it later on and thought it was such a messy and raw thing. I think I took it apart and used the materials for other crafts. I wish now that I kept it together.

Art journals, fabric books & pocket journals are somewhat of thing now but so many people had been making things, for years, out of scraps and the need to create little platforms for art therapy, using what they already had and creating something from scratch over buying the shiny perfect sketchpad or notebook. I love the shiny and new, and there is a lot of merchandise out there that is truly gorgeous. Yet, I'm tired of perfect. And I have so much...stuff. And there is such a strong urge to make art so, I figure, why not make things from 'junk'. I'm really glad more people are getting into it, the hobby and passion of hand creating. I love to forage for papers and interesting bits of fabric scraps and trims I have to make these journals. Next, I'd like to try and create my own art brushes. 

Below is a small project. Experimental and fun to make. 

A small art journal I made from an envelope. No scissors, torn in half and opened up.

The pages are simply junk/repurposed papers from my sketchbook and a blank page from my Bible.

It's going to get filled up with drawings, scraps, art.