Hello, I'm Val and here in my little Maine cottage studio, I'm all about creating junk journals out of my huge collection of antique and vintage papers, books, fabrics, laces, trims, as well as dyes, paints, odd bits of this, pieces of that and whatever else it takes to make journals that are a unique and interactive piece of art. I'd love to share my journey with you!
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First of all, CONGRATULATIONS on being selected as a guest artist for The Graphics Fairy! Richly deserved but I’m personally bummed at all the additional competition wanting to own one of your fabulous journals. Some day! Wonderful finds, procured by an exceptional hubby! Kutztown is about 80 min. from me, have been a couple times and stumbled on a wonderful old cemetery with some beautiful angel gravestones there. Would love to know if he found these treasures at a brick and mortar place I could visit. If he travels this way again and would be here on a Sunday I’d have a great vintage shopping recommendation that’s not too far from K’town. BTW, they have a folk-life festival every year around the 4th of July with loads of traditional agrarian methods, artisan demonstrations and historical exhibits, etc. A few years ago I found a fabulous piece of hand painted folk art on a piece of salvaged barnwood from Kutztown, in a wonderful shop in Bath, ME! If you haven’t been to the home and studio of the wax mold lady in Bath, you should definitely go. She’s bound to retire soon. Usually at least a couple of old book/stuff shops and boutiques worth checking out, too.
HELLO! HELLO!🥰Thank you so much! I sure hope I will be able to make The Graphic's Fairy Team proud! Thank you also for calling my hubby "exceptional"! He sure is but we won't tell him, we'll just keep that between us gals☺Wouldn't want him to get a swelled up head🤭. When questioned about where he located these goodies, he said he went to Renniger's Extravaganza. So I'm thinking it's like an outdoor antique market, but not sure. So lovely to hear about the interesting lady in Bath. I must get out more. Sending you hugs🤗💕
This is gorgeous! I love all the beautiful florals you've used.
Hello Birgit!🥰Thank you so very much!💝
So happy I was able to purchase this little beauty. 🤗 Just a thought Val, but I was thinking I’d love to see mini journals in a series as well. Even smaller than these! I know I know that’s a lot to ask but they would be so darn caaaaauuute!!!😁
Hello Yvette!🥰So glad you are enjoying her!💝
What a treasure! ❤
Hello Susan!🥰Thank you so very much!🤗💕
I do love these that you make. TFS
Hello Anna!🥰So glad you enjoyed her!🤗💕
So nice! ❤
Hello Linda!🥰Thank you so very much!🤗💕
❤ this little journal and enjoyed the flip-thru video! I’m waiting to see how you incorporate your husbands’s antique book finds into upcoming projects.😃
Hello!🥰So glad you enjoyed seeing No.12! All those 'hubby-finds'!🤩You're so right, I'd best get to it😅! Sending hugs to you💝
I love everything about these adorable journals!
Hello Sally!🥰Thank you so very much!😘💕
@@mylittlemainecottagestudio You're welcome. I hope to buy one of your journals some day. They are always snapped up so fast!
@@user-vu2vf3kw3r I know, they do seem to sprout wings. I do (usually) post a message on Insta to let anyone who may be interested know when a journal will be available, but, of course, not everyone wants another app. Thanks for your sweet comments!🥰
As always, LOVE your journal ❤❤❤ it’s such a shame that postage to Australia is $60! So crazy. I do enjoy watching your flip thru’s tho thank you Val 😊
Hello Jenny!💝Postage rates are insane😯But I'm so glad you can see & enjoy them via KZread. Sending hugs to you way down under🤗💕
whoever gets this will love it!
Hello Cassie!😘Thank you so much!💝
Wow. Everything is amazing for the amazing journals you make.
Hello Sharon!😘Oh Thank You!💝
Love this journal💗 That long fold down page for journaling was a great idea!🥰
Oh Rhonda, Thank you so much! Sending you hugs🤗💕
@@mylittlemainecottagestudio Big hugs back!❤️
Hi! I apparently started to watch this and didn't finish it until now. What a great find! I can't wait to see what you do with all of this!
Hello Carol!💝I couldn't believe it took me so long before I did a video of it and we all found out together! Hugs 2 U!
Oh my goodness!!!!!! That is all so fantastic! Showing this to my husband. He needs to up his game!
Hello Carol!🥰Your comment gave me a good laugh😂If only they always could just get the supplies we need and we could just get on with our crafting!☺Sending you hugs🤗💕
@@mylittlemainecottagestudio yes!!!
Amazing finds by your hubby! Those ledgers were gorgeous!! I’ve never seen anything like those physician’s records, very cool!! ❤
Hello Sarah!🥰I know! Those birth record books blew me away!😃Thank you for your lovely comments, as always!!☺Sending you hugs🤗💕
Fun!
Hello!🥰Thank you so very much for your sweet comment!💝
Amaaazing finds! Will you send your husband shopping for me please? He has quite the eye for treasures!🤗
Hello Dear Sharon!🥰What a great idea! If we could just send him out searching, we'd have more craft-time!💝Sending hugs to you Beautiful Lady!🤗💕💕
Wonderful finds❤ What a loving husband you have! The german book is a prayerbook I think.
Hello Claudia!🥰Bet you are right!😉Thank you so much!💝Hugs to you!🤗💕
WOW WOW WOW ❤❤❤ everything if perfectly fantastic! Those ledgers are wonderful, nothing like that here in Australia! And the font in that big book was amazing, never seen that before. Even the little cash book is cute, and of course the string holder will look great on your craft desk Val… what a spoilt girl are you! Enjoy playing with those gorgeous old papers ❤❤❤
Hello Jenny!🥰You are so correct! I AM so spoiled!😊This haul was fun and so glad you got to share in it! Thank you for your sweet comments!💝Sending you hugs🤗💕
Better than flowers, jewelry, and chocolate! 😂
Hello Leah!🥰I know! RIGHT?!💝
Wow, wow, wow! What a haul!!
Hello!🥰I know, Right?!😃. Gotta get busy now with it all. Sending you hugs🤗💕
wow! I hope you always take him . These are rare finds at that price ! You found cool stuff .
Hello Kay!🥰So glad you enjoyed this haul video, Thank you for your sweet comment!💝
wow! I hope you always take him . These are rare finds at that price ! You found cool stuff .
way to go, hubs! what a lucky girl you are! so sweet! does he have a brother who's single? 😋 just kidding
Hello!🥰I know! RIGHT?!☺Your comment gave me a much needed laugh!😂Thank you so very much!💝Sending you hugs🤗💕
Beautiful ❤
Hello Gigi!🥰So glad you enjoyed seeing her in all her chunkiness😊🤗💕
The birth records are so amazing! What a sweet hubby! Enjoy your new finds ❤
Hello Gigi!💝 I know, Right?! All those birth records blew me away! Thank you for your lovely comments!🤗💕
All those birth records! Wow! I’d love if they were from the 1800’s for sure. I’ve never seen anything like that before. Very rare find for sure.
Hello Yvette!💝I know! Those birth records blew me away! I didn't even know they existed. Sending you hugs🤗💕
What a wonderful husband you have to surprise you with all those goodies! Love the Bible with the large print!!
Hello Donna!🥰Yup, he does come in handy🤣. So glad you liked this video!💝
What a sweet husband you have Val. Lucky lady. Cool stuff! If you ever want to sell paper packs I would buy some. Love, love, love old papers. thanks!
Hello Cassie!🥰You've just given me the idea to do just that!☺Thank you so much Lovely Lady for such a great comment!💝Sending you hugs🤗💕
Wow, nice haul!! Your husband is a keeper😂
Hello Tracy!🥰Yup, probably need to hang on to him🤣. Thank you!🤗💕
Wowzers I'd say your hubby is a keepr Great haul!!! thank you for sharing them with us Your gonna have hours of fun!!!!
Hello!🥰I know, right?!☺So glad you enjoyed seeing what he found...as you know, I sure did!🤩Thank you for such a lovely comment!💝
Very nice. I’m currently working on a Victorian vintage journal idea and I want to use a lot of original ephemera as well as real vintage pages. I’m looking forward to it.
Hello Theresa!🥰Sounds lovely!💝
I love this!!!! No surprise that I do!! I watched your videos out of order. I think the tab that I liked from Ledger #2 is also in this JJ at 12:18. I'm so happy you put that small leftover bit of fabric from the cover into the JJ - it was perfect there and really adds something. Love the details - putting items in the seed packet - I love it!
Hello Carol!🥰Thank You so very much!🤗💕
Just beautiful.
Hello Mary!🥰Oh Thank You so very much!🤗💕
So many good books! Your husband has a great eye! Thanks for sharing.
Hello!🥰So glad you liked seeing them and thank you for your sweet comments! 🤗💕
So glad you shared! Sarah was right!
Hello Carol!💝So glad you liked seeing these books!🤗💕
@@mylittlemainecottagestudio i really did!!!!
Wow Val, your finds are fabulous!! I have that Sears reprint somewhere and no I don’t ay the great price you paid. That autograph and photo 😂album with the cabinet cards in it are FANTASTIC ❤ love it all xoxo
Hello Gigi!🥰So glad you liked this haul! I confess, I am partial to the album myself. Sending hugs🤗💕
Wow! Love these books, Val!! Thank you for making this haul video ❤ The stapler will make a great decor piece. Beautiful autograph book, so many great things can be made with those reproduction catalogs, awesome album full of cabinet cards! Woah, the cards in the back are lovely ❤ Love Dover Publications. Wow, beautiful botanical prints in both those books!! Thanks, again, Val!
Hello Dear Sarah!🥰💝 If you hadn't said you wanted to see them I would've stuck them all on the shelf. Thanks for the prod! Hugs to you!🤗💕
Love these books!!! ❤️
Hello Tracey!🥰So glad you liked this haul! Sending hugs to you🤗💕
Good stuff.
Hello Cassie!🤗So glad you liked the haul!💝
Absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤
Hello Kath!🥰Awww Thank You!🤗💕
I'm thrilled to have found you Val. Your work is outstanding. And I cannot believe that you live in Union, Maine. My brother raised his family there at the top of the hill on Gurney Hill Road. Looking forward to viewing all of your past and upcoming KZread videos.
Hello Molly!🥰I am so happy you reached out to me!💝Thank you so very much for such a lovely comment and connection to this little quiet town! Sending you hugs🤗💕
Wonder if Margaret Sears hailed from Searsport? Great find!
Hello!🥰You could very well be correct😂. So glad you liked this video. Sending hugs to you🤗💕!
Wow! It was like a clown car at the circus (only better!). The beautiful calling cards just kept coming and coming. They are in such great shape too. What a great find!
Hello!🥰I know! It was just like a clown car!🤣I couldn't believe it either. So glad I was able to share it together with all of you, that was the best part! 💝Hugs to you🤗💕
What an amazing find! Whoever collected them would be glad that someone else appreciates them.
Hello!🥰I know! Amazing is right! Want to put them in journals so they can be appreciated instead of stuck in an old box somewhere, and forgotten (just like I did🙃). Sending you hugs🤗💕
Very lovely.
Hello Sharon!🥰So glad you enjoyed the video! It was lots of fun to do it together with you all!💝Sending you hugs🤗💕
Wow what an awesome deal, bet you were glad you went in. I can NOT believe you had this for over a year and did not look inside it, that's just nuts. Hugs and stay well.
Hello Ina!🥰Nuts is so right!🤭I knew I wanted to do a video on it & just put it away🙄(Out of sight, out of mind)🙃 Sending you hugs back🤗💕
That was an amazing find for that price. Such a variety! The calligraphy birds were part of Spencerian calligraphy and were penned with a technique called flourishing. I have a few flourished birds on calling cards and autograph album pages. Thanks for sharing. Great eye candy for a Wednesday❣️
Hello!🥰Oh Thanks for letting me know about the calligraphy!💝So glad you enjoyed the video! Hugs to you!🤗💕
Wow where can you buy these please?😊
Hello Simone!🥰I know, right?! Who would've thought a high-end antique shop would have such a deal! Cannot wait to put them in journals where they will be, hopefully, cherished. Hugs to you🤗💕
Wow, what a find! They are exquisite. You certainly did get your money's worth!
Hello Sally!🥰I know, right?!☺Thanks for your sweet comment!💝Hugs to you🤗💕