I thought I would talk about what books to gather together to get you started making your junk journals from actual junk. Here is the list you can print off and put on your fridge so loved ones can watch for them for gifts for you. Or post them on Facebook to family and friends to check their shelves for old books gathering dust. Or to tuck in your pocket for the next time you are wandering around a thift store... here goes:
1. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden. Just get it. Old or new, just get it. And when you get it: CUT IT AND USE IT. It will last you years.
2. Some kind of "nature watcher's" book. Look for illustrations, rather than photos: birds, flowers, butterflies, bugs, mushrooms are all good... don't think you need to get them all right off the bat. Just one or two is fine.
3. A children's picturebook classic, such as an Eloise Wilkin Little Golden book, or a Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit type book. One is a start.
4. Dictionary.
5. Atlas.
6. Sheet music.
7. One volume from an encyclopedia
8. A "black & white" book -- old school text book? manual? tax book?
9. A book of reproductions of "Old Masters" paintings.
10. A cheap paperback of a classic familiar young person's reading-type book, such as Charlotte's Web, Little House, Anne of Green Gables, Stuart Little, etc.
Good luck and enjoy the book hunt! ~~Catherine
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