Friday, March 13, 2026

Simple Ways to Start Junk Journaling to Spark Your Creativity

 


Photo Source:  Better Homes and Gardens

"Martina Calvi (@martinamartian) creates art with junk. Things you’d typically put in the trash—receipts, fruit stickers, even sugar packets—are her medium. When arranged in one of her 30+ journals, the detritus becomes a beautiful expression of Calvi’s daily life, often themed around her mood, travels, or a color. “It’s a way to preserve my memories and romanticize the everyday,” she says. “Even the mundane is worth documenting.” Now, she’s teaching others how to do the same in her second book, A Year of Junk JournalingHere, she shares a few tips to get started."  Comment from Better Homes and Gardens

Junk journaling is new to me and I've been looking into all aspects of it.  It is interesting to me how popular it is.  There are aspects of it that still don't make sense to me, but it is intriguing on a basic level.

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