Tag: junk journals

Innocence & Experience – Handmade Journal

Tara A. Lesko - Writer

Little works better to successfully end a long day than making a journal!

…Each handmade journal in the shop is constructed with quality card stock and scrapbooking paper in various colors, styles, and textures. All pages can be written or drawn on both front and back. The covers are made with Bristol paper and reinforced with wooden pieces, chip board, and/or crafters tape for durability. The spines/bindings are sewn together by hand using multiple stitches and a thick string. These beautiful books are made with a lot of patience and love 🙂 A treat for the writer, diarist, artist, or paper lover in your life! http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheForgottenWord #junkjournals #writerscrafts

Blackout poetry – Wingless

Tara A. Lesko - Writer

“Wingless female specimen of the queen/exempt from participation in society/blind workers erect/waiting upon pointed enemies/These wonderful structures/transported by the wind/are most curious and complicated/adapted in shape and size/to who is appropriate/well-turned/it rests upon the floor.”

Card making and drawing

Tara A. Lesko - Writer

My cards and journals come with writing prompts & bits of inspiration. Junk journals are a lot more fun than they sound.

“There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to art school, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.”
― Amanda Palmer