minibook:pieces of life

I'm in the process of making space in my craft room and throwing out/giving away all the things I know I will never use. I have a habit of hoarding those little pieces of life thinking that one day they'll make it into my scrapbooks. This is why Project Life would be awesome, however I can't justify a 12x12 album every year filled with chocolate wrappers and clothing tags. This is in no way a criticism of those documenting their life that way. In fact, I want to do it. I love the concept, the idea, the execution. However I am resisting the urge until I can get my paper hoarding tendencies under control and hence use it to document my life instead of using the album as a medium to collect receipts.

In the clean up I also found this mini book that I made for a project with my Junior Guides last year sometimes and had started to put a few tags and labels in as embellishments. So I just continued the process will all the tickets, wedding invitations, conference name tags and medication boxes I found lying around from the last two years. I really like that it contains a snapshot of my life at this time - my address, clothing size, shoe size, places I went, what a train ticket looks like, the cost of a hair cut, chocolate wrappers and clothing tags - all in a 4x6 mini book.

For pages, I used plain coloured cardstock and some of my giant doodles that were inspired by a workshop I took a couple of years ago at 21 Secrets:An Art Journal Playground (I looked everywhere for a link, but the domain seems to have expired and I can't find it). It's bound with my Bind-it-All and has a piece of tabbed transparency and a picture of me being silly as the cover.

Day three: make a minibook