came across this looking for tips to take and use photos for my image journal in a creative writing class at uni!! wonderful video

I love how this turned out. Very neat idea, cant even til its made out of small envelopes. Great job.

I do love the type writer

Love it❤

This is awesome

I love how it all came together. 😊

Thanks for sharing I’m going to link in my next journal video

WHATTTTTTTTT!!! I've been researching on how to create this and gbam! I find your. You have no idea what this means to me! Thank you so much for documenting the whole process

I really enjoyed this conversation between you and Dr. Laura. As we approach the New Year, it's a perfect time to be thinking about our "why" and the intention behind our collecting. A lot of the crafty items I've collected over the years were "rescued" because of their potential to be reinvented. I find the process of converting "junk" to art incredibly captivating!

Thank you for sharing your heart and lived experience.❤

Just beautiful ❤️

Just found this as I’ve been ‘trying’ to clean up my junk room & following another thrift purchase. lol. This is perfect, you should resend for all of us to watch again for 2025. It’s NEEDED and love that you created it. Thank you!!❤

Love your journal❤

Beautiful

I cannot find a line stencil.

I’m no longer addicted to buying physical materials… I’m now into hoarding various jpg/png images for my digital junk journal 😅

I’m so glad I found your channel! I’m starting to use art therapeutically. Thank you.

I the same pockets for my larger pieces and to keep current projects separate! Storage is best when it’s transparent I reckon!

Wow! I was told by a sales person at a craft store that i was a collector and I wasn't sure how to feel about that. Mostly because I have space and so much stuff, but have become overwhelmed by trying to organize it all, that i don't really have room to actually craft. I try so hard not to shop...it is retail therapy in many ways, plus I pride myself on buying 97% bargains, i do buy new, but the majority is not. I have and do collect other things, again, at bargain rates, but i know i must stop as i don't have kids, am an only child, and really have no one to leave items to anyway. There's so much behind collecting that all the paradigms spoke to me as well. I really need a person to come help me move and organize my craft room and even my bedroom! Thank you for an extraordinary topic and Dr Laura, too ❤

My collection isn't out of control, my structured use of available space is my major issue. My story, and I'm sticking to it. 🙂 For even better excuses, drop me a line. I am the Queen of De-nial.

Fascinating!! I've been amassing supplies for a couple of years now (since I became chronically ill) and, while I use a portion of them regularly, there are many that are just piling up. This video sparked the question, "why?" Why am I collecting supplies that I'm not using? I realized they are a tangible representation of hope. They are representative of things I want to do as my health improves. I want to curate them a little tighter so that they don't oppress my mental health, but reframing them as signs of hope and fun for my future is a helpful perspective. Thank you for this video!

This looks so good! 😊

I love your videos, I'm so glad you're back. You have a beautiful soothing voice.

This was brilliant -so much to think about and it’s all good stuff about myself. Defending my collecting started at university - my friends and family could not comprehend that the collection of found objects were 100% essential to successfully completing my Major in Fine Arts - Sculpting. To them it’s hoard ng rubbish no matter if it’s 17th century rag papers or an antique snuff bottle collection. The papers etc thrill me - I love finding the exquisite and curious items to make junk journals.

this is so good 😊 🙏 thank u for making this video. I collect mostly art supplies like paints, markers, fabrics, patterns and beads. but I also collect books and tarot decks. I strongly feel that collecting is part of who I am 😁, unfortunately I am often misunderstood for it.

Just the other day I organized all of my gel prints by color and put them in a file box. There is room for scraps as well, so I'll get envelopes and start sorting those.

How about a series of affirmations in the pockets? They could be on a theme, like wellness or self-care, or just to be uplifting and re-affirming.

Hello! I’m a new stubbie and just love your channel! It’s very real and your advice is obviously well thought out and especially honest! I love what you said (at 5:40) about using all your materials (even precious items) freely and not always waiting for some time in the future. Also watched and loved your hoarding video- a topic not many dare to cover as honestly! ❤

Like your thought process with these steps!❤

Great video❤ I am a collector🙈

I have questioned my sanity along the way of my junk journaling passion. Between the collecting and the sideline into gelli printing and other art media, sometimes I feel like I’m all over the place. Also, I feel a reluctance to part with a lot of my special vintage finds which I normally would never have purchased before I started doing this in the first place. I have tons of stuff now and now I have difficulty staying focused and making choices sometimes when I’m working on a project bc there’s so many directions I could go it’s overwhelming.

Very cool conversation about a something I've enjoyed for decades but never gave much thought to in regards to 'why' I do it or what it says about me outside of the fact that I enjoy it immensely. The information on how Jungian theory(?) would apply was illuminating especially when you think about not just your personal use of symbols but how marketing companies can take advantage of this (ex. skulls, wings, mushrooms, etc. are so IN this year!) and influence style, taste and practice. For me as years pass, I've moved from using new paper product to more found objects, discarded ephemera and secondhand materials. Budget-wise, it's allowed me to try out more quality paints, markers and other art supplies. There is a certain decadence that comes from using quality watercolors on an old dictionary page. And I never would have thought of doing this had I not exposed myself to the practices' of other artists. All in all, great video! I plan on adding Jung to the reading list in the coming months.

Thank you for posting on this topic. Reflecting on my collecting through a psychological lens will help me become more intentional. I have large collections all revolving around art or crafting. It is to the point that I have too much but loathe to downsize for fear of needing those things in the future. 😅

Thank you for exploring this subject. I probably need to listen to it a few times to really form an opinion. I just want to let you know that every time you monologued, your audio went mono and was hard to hear. The rest of your video was stereo, including the interview.

I collect a lot of things. And my ephemera and art supplies is overwhelming. I’m trying to pare down but not get rid of all of it. I enjoy it all. I see my Art friends giving things away and then needing them again. So I’m cautious about it.

Great video! Subscribed.

What an interesting take on collecting scraps of paper and 'stuff' for junk journaling. why do I keep them? Its part of a junk journalling hobby that brings me joy! I do keep my scraps corraled into three small drawers which sit into an upright storage stand. This puts a limit on how much I can keep & forces me to consider whether I have room for it.

When I sewed, I bought material and patterns I knew I wouldn’t make, but I had them. Same with knitting and crocheting. Years ago I started stamping, which led me to card making. The next leap was junk journals. Now I’ve gone down the digital rabbit hole. I do try to incorporate everything. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. At 68, I can justify this addiction and still sleep at night. Although, when the time comes, my son will probably say, “WHAT WAS SHE THINKING”?

Is anyone else simultaneously listening to this wonderful conversation and browsing Temu, etc. looking at journal / craft supplies?

Thanks! 😊

Whew! Balance, learn balance. Then you really see you. The need to have is huge also for me. However, what I value and find valuable to me, lets me help me evaluate and the reality of what or how much you really do involve yourself in your craft/Art. I do hope everyone can get to the belief that the permission and knowledge you are ok can only come from you and the Reality we are all human and move differently at times and it’s ok

I was convinced by a well-loved journal maker to buy an enormous amount of stuff in the early days of this craft. True, most were from thrift stores and I did not spend over $30 on any one 'big' purchase. However, when I started buying digitals from Etsy, I realized I had to stop. I became a true JUNK journal maker, but I still had to work through the sheer amount of things. I'm to an age now where Swedish Death Cleaning is uppermost on my mind and I'm tirelessly trying to use it all up so my daughter isn't left with tons of paper goods and old books when I die.

What a fascinating topic to explore. I love learning the ‘whys’ behind how we do things. My personal perspective on collecting as an Autistic person is that it helps me feel secure in that I have enough of what I need in order to create the art and crafts that bring me joy. There is also a component of sorting and putting things in order that is at the core of the way my neurology works. The part that resonated most with me is the evolutionary gatherer mindset mentioned. There is just something so deeply satisfying about collecting beautiful objects, and collecting the tools to make more beautiful objects.

Deeply appreciate your deep dive into the topic! Great video! ❤

Yes! Finally, this topic. I am an/a art/creative/junk journaler and I collect. No clothes collection, no tchotchkeys or trinkets collection for me, but lots of journaling-connected fodder. Thank you for making this enlightening video!

Loved it!

That was so fantastic. Many thanks to you and Dr. Woods! All the theories resonated with me, but most all the idea of integration. I came to junk journaling after my husband died, and it has given me a way to find and reclaim my own self.

Thank you for a great perspective on this topic 🙏🙏🙏 I would also like to add another term to the discussion - passion. Jan Lakan the psychoanalytic expert about passion gave a very interesting perspective on the topic. If you would look at the gap between what you need to what you actually have that gap represents passion. So I often look at that like the number of shoes I own versus the number I need or the number of books or the number of creative materials... thank you again personally I would be very happy to have a KZbin video on each and every model she mentioned it was very interesting and also a lot to digest

Thank you for letting me know I am not alone😂 after I started junk journaling, nothing is sacred. 😊I have downsized and lost my craft room and I am bereft. 😢

Very interesting to watch from a perspective of a collector - I very much fall into a post-modern, Adam Savage-esque philosophy about collecting objects, which is that each object tells a story, and each story is important to the person who made the object and the people whose hands it has passed between. Which is to say that I am a giant nerd and I like THINGS. :P