“Galium” – Medium Handcrafted Journal

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This journal is ready for you to make it your own!

Galium is a handmade upcycled materials journal, measuring about 6″ x 5”, and would be a great book to use as a small art and/or writing journal, travel herbarium, glue book, commonplace book, or a mini junk journal!

It would also make a great idea book, gratitude journal, or a list book that can be slipped into your purse or back pack for daily use.

The cover of this handmade pocket journal is made from a scrap of corrugated cardboard covered with images from vintage books and features a cream tattered silk ribbon tie closure.

This journal contains two book marks. Both are secured in the interior of the book. Both are made with a strip of dark brown silk fabric and one has a hangtag made from a recycled tea bag label that has been collaged with a Queen Anne’s Lace leaf and a scrap of text. On the back is the quote “What you see is where you have been, what you’ll be is what you do now,” by Buddha. The tea tag is sewn to the ribbon book mark using the tea bag string and is embellished with a single carnelian gemstone chip.

The second book mark features three fluorite gemstone chips, one carnelian chip, and one glass bead, also stitched onto the book mark with a tea bag string.

This blank art journal contains about 80 pages of various sizes and types of paper, (including a couple art papers)—vintage and newer; some of which are thick enough handle some mixed media art work. Paper includes kraft paper, watercolor paper, vintage book and music paper, and vellum paper.

This small pocket journal contains mostly neutral pages, along with colored vintage book pages with some color.

Some pages have been stained and dyed with plant dyes such as walnut dye.

Most book pages containing text have been gessoed or painted over with acrylic paint and are ready to hold a variety of media, including light watercolor.

A few pages may still contain text that you can collage over, create mixed media on top of, or can block out with your own acrylic paint color of choice to create a blank palette.

There are two large side pockets in this journal which can be used to stash feathers, business cards, notes, receipts, change, or a sprig of your favorite plant found on a walk.

The journal has been hand stitched together with waxed thread and has no closure though a simple bull clip could be used to hold it closed.

Your new journal is empty and waiting for you to fill it with YOUR art, thoughts, lists, collages, or whatever you can imagine!

This handmade journal ships for FREE.