More From the Junk Journal

The prompt for Jan. 7 was Tags and Tickets. I didn't have any tickets so used the round images as tickets. 

The images for the tags came from a welcome sign I made as one of my first calligraphy projects. I photocopies the snow people and cut them out.

The poem on the pocket: (The Young One helped me complete the rhyme)

Some like it hot

Some like the snow

Some look forward to baseball

Some go where the coffee flows

The theme for January 14 was monochromatic, but the white really needed something to break it up.

Inside the pocket was a poem the Eldest wrote when she was 7 years old. I had calligraphed it and used it as a Christmas card one year. So I photocopied it and made a tassle.

Her poem:

Winter is...

Frost on cars

Ruined plans of going places.

On Mondays afternoon Ice skating

Zoos are closed

Extra days off

Nobody outside at times

Icicles clinking when you take them off

Cold, frozen, windy, days

Extra days in June

I added:

Is it August, yet?

January 15th's prompt was to use packaging. I cut a circle out of a plastic clamshell package that held the Crop-a-Dile I bought. I used it along with a photograph of the girlies and their snowman friend to make a snow globe. The date on the photograph was March 17, 1997

Since I'm behind in the journal, I didn't really think of a way to put space between the "glass globe" so the sparkles would move.

The prompt for January 16 was window. Because the book pages are thin, I couldn't cut a hole in the page as I already glued two pages together. So I hunted around for a clipart image of a window. I found one with a calico cat. I used the image and colored the cat black. Purrfect. Ink loved to watch the snow.

There weren't any prompts for Jan. 24  and 25 because there is no journal class on the weekends. I used this weekend's storm as a two page spread. On the left, a list of storm prep and last minute store items, mostly snacks and especially chocolate. On the right over a picture of the backyard, The Snow Gnome measuring stick with a snow total of 17.5 inches. I think I need to add the countdown until the Summer Solstice.