Wreck This Journal 2nd Post!

I almost forgot, but I've just passed my one month of ownership with my Wreck This Journal! I haven't been obsessively working on it as I did after I first got it, but I have been putting work into it in small increments. It's getting so FAT! I'm starting to become concerned for its overall well-being because it's just so huge!

I even had to adjust the string closure for it because the loop of string I had before just wasn't cutting it anymore. I have to wrap this piece around the button a few times to get it to stay put. Poor thing!

I'm really glad I wrote on the edges of the book right after I got it, because there is NO WAY I would be able to accomplish that now. 

I think I'm most proud of this page. I took some watercolours and let them bleed into each other, then used my handy-dandy inkwell pen to outline the story of Creation. I absolutely adore it. Also, the warning and acknowledgements page. More watercolours.

"Press Leaves and Other Found Objects." I just really enjoy looking at this page. Also, scope the little pieces of flower gathering in the spine. I love it.

"Draw Lines While In Motion." I kept putting this page off out of fear of it not coming out good enough for my liking, but I finally conquered it and I think it turned out kind of awesome. I drew the lines in ballpoint pen while in the car on a winding mountain road, then traced over the lines with sharpie and inkwell, and watercoloured the squares.

One of the "more ways to wreck this journal" pages: cover with things of your favourite colour (blue), "make a paper chain" and the half-completed "collect fruit stickers here." The blue page still needs a TON more work.

"Bring this book in the shower with you." This was one of the first journal tasks I completed, but the blank page just kept staring at me with a daunting challenging gaze. So I watercoloured it, too. Can you tell I really like watercolours?

Another "more ways to wreck" page: cover with tea bags (needs more work) and "sew this page." Also needs more work. I'm really stumped as to what I'm going to do with them, though.

"Make a mess. clean it up." The left side is watercolours and pastels all thrown haphazardly onto the page and topped off with white acrylic paint splatters and soggy cardboard chunks. Right side is the pastels and watercolours lined up, with lines of white acrylic and a solid cardboard piece. I have no idea how I came up with this idea, but I kind of like it. I'll probably do more with it.

"Trace your hands." I finished this page a few weeks ago, but I don't really pay much attention to it, so I barely realized it's done. Or almost done.

Another "more ways to wreck" page: bubblewrap a page! I slapped this on the back of the "draw with glue" page.

"Figure out a way to freeze this page." I stained it with watered-down ink and painted snowflakes on it with acrylic and glittered the instruction portion, but most of the ink came out in the water. I'll have to redo it once it's defrosted.

"Draw lines using abnormal writing utensils.." this page started as lines drawn with various shades of oil and acrylic paints dipped with dental floss, straws, and Christmas candy cane tubes (the ones that hold Reese's and stuff like that), but I ended up just taking my fingers to it and making a mess. it was so unbelievably therapeutic.

"Write a list of more ways to wreck this journal." in case you were wondering what the rest were. I've only even started half of these.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, my journal started off as the paper bag version of the new journal, but you can't even tell. The cover is some magazine clippings of woodlands and such.