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I love crafting and junk journaling but it can be an expensive/over-consumptive hobby. I’ve started taking to Canva to make collages of images I find on Pinterest or Google and print them out at home.
I also create motifs or find prints and collages on Pinterest and print those out for background paper. And I have photo paper so that I can print pictures that look just as good as getting them from a print shop.
Printer ink can be expensive but when I think about how much I’ve been able to create and compare it to spending the price of ink on a single stationery shopping trip, it balances out for me.
Jul 15, 2024
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Creating things hasn’t always been my strong suite because I feel like everything needs to be perfect all the time. Big fan of junk journal for that reason- collaging with little trinkets and junk I collect is the most low stakes rewarding thing I’ve done in a while
Feb 17, 2025
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something I hoard is posters/postcards that I used to hang on the wall but I can’t throw them away because I still think They‘re cool so I started using them collage with instead and this can apply to all sorts of items if you might be interested in junk journaling but yea highly recommend
Dec 3, 2024
I love doing collages, cuz all you really need are magazine cutouts and glue. There's a very low barrier to entry, skill-wise AND supply-wise, unlike painting. Digital collages are fun too, but I try to have less screentime by doing the paper ones. If I want to re-use pieces instead of gluing them down permanently, sometimes I'll just take a picture of the current arrangement to immortalize it, and then start over on a new composition. That way, I don't have to constantly buy new magazines to get new cutouts. This is one of my favorite ones I've done so far:
Aug 22, 2024
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I’m on my 5th rewatch of One Tree Hill.
Can’t get enough of the plot holes and silly dialogue.
Don’t ask me how many times I’ve seen Vampire Diaries.
Apr 24, 2024
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I’ve actually had a recurring dream where 2 people in my friend group (who idk irl— they’re totally made up) broke up and the guy started dating another of the friends. The girl was fine single but we had another guy in the group who was in love with her and wanted to ask her to marry him (despite our pleads for him not to).
Each dream, he gets closer and closer to popping the question. The last dream I had, he’d finally got down on one knee and was about to do it at the weirdest and inopportune time. And as soon as he opened his mouth to ask, I woke up. The dream hasn’t come back since.
Oh and we’re around our late teens/early twenties I think? I’m in my thirties so I thought this was a significant detail.
I haven’t deciphered it yet but I can’t believe I haven’t finished this saga.
Jul 23, 2024
Whenever my friends and I hang out at a restaurant or store, I make sure to pick up the little neglected business cards at the cashier or take the post card attached to the restaurant check.
I take them home and tape them to a page in my journal as a memory of the day. My roommate and I have started collecting the restaurant post cards and hang them on the fridge because we love to go out to eat.
Apr 23, 2024