Most of this journal comes from junk envelopes,
the kind that you rip open or they have safety liners,
odd unmatching sizes, or there are just too many of them.
In order to use the envelopes in a meaningful way,
I painted them black and hand drew simple doodles on them,
turning the trash into signatures.
The pockets are from painted brown paper,
that lines the shipping boxes.
I made tags printed on tea dyed paper, tea dyed cardstock.
The cover is made from acrylic painted 140 lb watercolor paper.
The signatures are sewn with bakers twine.
Foliage is cut from texture card stock, and jewels
and charms are clipped to the pages.
The inspiration for this book and the rest in the series
am making are the medieval manuscripts from the century.