My 2012 "52 Q"

This is an idea I found on-line from another creative blogger.  What is "52 Q" you may ask????  It stands for 52 Questions,  one asked each week. Each week I sent out a question for everyone to work on.   Friends and family worked on their own "mini time capsule" and decorated the tag pages each week.  It's a small project that was easy to take on.  Now I can look back and see just what I was thinking at that time last year.  It's so interesting to see how fast things change.  The little journal is actually a personal book meant to be looked at when we want to reflect on 2012.  It was also a fun craft project to use up left-over scrapbook papers and doo dads.

Another Travel Journal

This was the 4th "junk mail" journal I created and I think I got smarter with more experience.  When we travel I tend to pick up mementos of all sizes.  By making the journal a little larger on the outside (using fabric, lace, and ribbon scraps) I am able to add the keepsakes I pick up along the way.

 The ribbon embroidery is a project I started and never finished.  Turned out the journal was a great place to add that little piece of x-stitch fabric.  The book is lined with a piece of cardboard to keep it's shape, then I sewed through all layers, plus sewed the paper scraps together to make the pages.