12/31/10

Scrapping Cont'd

Flotsam (noun): Miscellaneous or unimportant material.  Ex: A notebook filled with flotsam.

It's official.  I've filled all the pages in my massive collage scrapbook (see previous post entitled Scrapping).  The whole thing began at age fifteen, when I started hoarding flotsam into a yellow binder.  Eventually the collection had to be moved into a box, file after file bursting with post cards, origami cranes, coasters, receipts, stamps, and photographs.  The vast majority of it, though, were clippings from catalogs: Free People, Urban Outfitters, Anthropology, and Country Living.  I kept anything that caught my eye. 

A few pages (and please pardon my horrible camera - poor thing's barely alive these days):



















Now I've got to find another book in which to paste stray clippings.

11 comments:

  1. Love, love, love!! :) I will always be slightly jealous of your creative edge, but I love it just the same! :)

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  2. Scrapbooking: An organized, socially acceptable form of being a pack rat. :-O

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  3. Thanks Court. ;)

    That's a lovely thought, Jacob. Shhh.

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  4. Yes you must find a new book to put your clippings in! I love it.
    make a book out of it and get it published and I will be the first to buy it and I want it signed. you should make one on all your fun blogs and print out some of your favorite comments and followers pictures and such. I can write you silly notes and send you my fortune when I go out for sushi tonight (i NEVER give my fortunes to anyone,, i place them in my fun book)but I am willing to help you start to put your first hing in it. If i had my darn bus Id drive the fortune to you (heehee)
    I can send you all kinds of fun stuff throughout the year if you want. you can e mail me your address. what fun would that be? in fact im going to make a point to take bus pictures for you! heehee have fun with your new book of goodies!

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  5. Yes you must find a new book to put your clippings in! I love it.
    make a book out of it and get it published and I will be the first to buy it and I want it signed. you should make one on all your fun blogs and print out some of your favorite comments and followers pictures and such. I can write you silly notes and send you my fortune when I go out for sushi tonight (i NEVER give my fortunes to anyone,, i place them in my fun book)but I am willing to help you start to put your first hing in it. If i had my darn bus Id drive the fortune to you (heehee)
    I can send you all kinds of fun stuff throughout the year if you want. you can e mail me your address. what fun would that be? in fact im going to make a point to take bus pictures for you! heehee have fun with your new book of goodies!

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  6. This is awesome! I love that you completed it having started at fifteen! What a great keepsake and visual journey. I wish I had my early ideas and drawing books but I lost them all when moving over seas with my family (navy move). yuck. Very Inspiring post! Happy New Year!

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  7. Hello. Great to find your blog. Happy New Year!!! Hugs Karen

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  8. This book is gorgeous! It would make a perfect Coffee Table book! :).

    I collect all sorts of clippings as well! I have stacks of them, and they are stuck everywhere. I never thought of making a scrapbook out of them!

    Great idea :).

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  9. This is simply fab! Love the word, flotsam, too! Begining the empty scrapbooks on my 4 children about makes me want to puke! Too dawnting and overwhelming! But this actually would be fun. Eye-candy in the form of pics and patterns is something I love and to have a little book to flip through and share with my family would be really neat. Those empty $40 Acid free Scrapbooks just might find themselves filled with "flotsam."

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  10. I like this! I used to keep loads of pictures and things too. Sometimes I made a collage, or put them in my journal between song lyrics... I like it!

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