What's On My Desk...making progress on the cover of my journal

Happy New Years Friends

and welcome back to my blog.

Sharing some progress on my junk journal cover today.

I purchased some old books to re-purpose into art.

The spine on the old books were easy to remove from the old book pages.

However, the newer books are not that easy to remove,

and you will see the poor results I had in the pics below.  

I think I found a way to repair it with some cardboard from

a paper towel roll and will attempt the repair later on, and before

I finished sewing in the signatures.

I was influenced by the talented Nellie Wortman, and

the lovable Mrs. Cog with her paper clipped fabric book markers.

Here are some pics of my progress...keep in mind some pages are still not complete.

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What's On My Desk Post No. 2

Welcome back Friends!

I'm making progress with what's on my desk.

While watching a YT video featuring both Sheila, from Bohodaydreams, and

Sally, from Rainy Day Gypsy, these two daydreamers, and oh so inspiring ladies,

had me laughing out loud while viewing their video.
 They inspired me to get out my baubles, beads, and wire cutters

and create a few boho baubles of my own.

The vintage envelope above was converted into EnVe Art 

with some of my sari silk, vintage french papers, faux scotch tape cut using 

a pattern pair of scissors and a rusty good metal flower creating using my

rusty goodness recipe where you can find such recipe here on my blog. 

The above piece of ephemera was inspired by Rachel Tomlinson on YT.

 I used one of my own vintage family photos. 

Some of that yummy sari silk was used, as well as some old vintage tatting too.

Oh look...you can see a better view of the boho beads in the pic above too.

When I see these beads, they make me smile because of Sheila and Sally's funny posts. 

An envelope tea dyed, stamped, some faux scotch tape,

and some messy threads too. 

Thanks for visiting and checking up on my progress.