 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching today. So I just thought I'd do a very quick flick through of the very large junk journal that I've recently made. So I made this during two Facebook lives, so there won't be a tutorial on YouTube because it's just too much of a big project. So if you do want to see how I've put together this 19 signature junk journal, then I will link both of the Facebook lives below, but do kind of bear in mind that the lives that I do, we chat, we have a laugh and things like that, and I make, you know, I make a card or I make boxes, bags or a junk journal, for example, during the live. So, you know, you may have to fast forward sections, but within the first live, you will see how I kind of put this together. And then in the second one, you'll see me stitching in the, or some of the signatures. Once you've seen how I do one, then you don't really need to watch the rest of it. But it's there if you do, or you're interested just to get the sizes, for example. But this is it here. So this is my personal junk journal. So this is 1982, which was the year I was born. And I have filled this with lots of bits and pieces that are special to me and mean something to me that I don't want to get rid of. Now the word junk journal, you know, it's, it's not junk, it's treasure. As somebody said in our group, said it should be called a treasure journal, because you just fill it with those things that are junk to some people, but they just have a meaning or it might be a ticket stub, it might be, you know, the receipt for your first date or something. They're things that you kind of not always know where to put them. They just kind of sit in a drawer or sit in an envelope or something. Junk journals are really nice ways to keep them in something and it looks nice as well. So when I say signature, basically a signature is just like a small little notebook. It just is made up of pages. It could be one page folded in half. It could be six, seven, eight, nine. It could be entirely up to you. But mine are six pages and there are 19. So there's a lot of pages in this. I've got this tassel on the side here. This is a picture of me and my friends when we went to Auckland Towers some years ago now. And I'm tempted to take that photo out though and actually put maybe a photo of myself because this is obviously my album. And then I'll put that photo in the junk journal itself. I've just got this little dangle. I've just made those pom poms myself, bits of ribbons, some little beads there. But I'm going to, I think, change the wool here because that will end up probably breaking over time. And I'm probably going to set this with an eyelet as well. Now I haven't filled it with everything because there's some really personal bits that I just don't want to share on YouTube. So there is more to go in this. I've got more pockets. I've got some more envelopes but they've got addresses and other people's names and photos and I don't think it's very fair to kind of share all of that on here because there are other people obviously in there. But what I've got in here at the moment I'm happy to share. So I have added this elastic fastening which you didn't see me do for those that watch the live. And I basically attached the elastic and then I put this pom pom trim over here and along this side here. This is actually the same kind of fastening you have on your jeans. So if I open up here you'll see there's the back of that piece. You just hammer it in. So it's a real solid fastening that I've got there which I'm really pleased with. So this is how it is. So I've used the twinkle book and that's for my front and back. And then I've used a three mil greyboard for the spine. And you know it just looks like one big book. This is actually some plastic like picnic tablecloth that I used and it's worked really well. So you open it up and I've got this pocket here. This has got my savings account that my Nan set up for me many years ago. And I've always had it hanging around and this is a very old autograph book that I've got. And then here it had a girl and her dog and Sam was the dog within this you know one of the stories within the book. But someone in the chat said you know you should put a photo of myself in there. So this is a photo of my mum holding me upside down which I just thought was quite funny. And then obviously it's nice it says Sam. This is just a photo that I've had of myself but it's just you know it was in part of like a collage in a big frame. It fell out some years ago and it just got put in with you know bits and bolts. But I've just stuck it inside there. I just thought it was it's giving it a home. And then those pieces just sit there. So I've done this little kind of pocket at the front. And then it kind of starts really. So this here there's a little that's a little letter from my Nan. No it's not a letter from my Nan. Sorry that there is one of her shopping lists. And yeah my Nan just does very funny shopping lists because she can never really remember what she's wrote or read what she's wrote and writing. Yeah we've had some funny experiences. So there were a few of those throughout because I kind of take them from her when she's not when she's brought everything from the list are then kind of keep it because I just like the memory of that day. That's a little ticket that my mum left me when I came to stay once and it was a ticket for me to enjoy her craft room for one visit only. So that was quite funny so I kept that. And then these here were part of the twinkle book but I really liked them and I can journal on the back. What I've done is I've actually attached some this is like your exam revision cards. I put one of those on the back. So I've got things to fill out. This is all plain still for me to be able to attach things to stick things to and write on. That there is the original spine from the twinkle book and I've just stuck it on the side there just so yeah I thought I'm not going to waste it. Now all the bits in here are either pages from the book and other things that I've collected. So this is a big this here you can see there's the first page of the signature. Here's the back page. So if I open it up you can kind of make out that whole page if I just hold that up there. This was a game you put you piece the pieces together to make that image but I just thought it was such a nice colourful kind of image I wanted to put in here. Now all these playing pages are all ready for me to be able to add more things to and to obviously journal on which I will be doing but those kind of things I didn't want to really kind of share because they're my own personal thoughts and memories and stuff. So also what I've got here this is part of my old guidebook now no brownie book. Now I have two the original one is in here intact the other one I've taken apart and used the pages throughout and then I've done these little pockets here and these are full of the postcards that my dad sent me when he used to be away in the Navy and they've got lovely little kind of notes on the back that he's wrote so I can pull them out from the top and look at them whenever I want. And then I've got lots of letters I had pen pals for many years there's also letters from my friends from school there's also letters from my dad when he was away and my nan used to write to me as well so I've got all of that in here I'm not going to flip this over because it's got the address you know an address on there but you can see it's very easy to be able to go in there and take out the letter and read it and then the other side of that is here for you to attach something out onto whether you staple it on you stick it on that's another little kind of you know attachment there. This again here that's another side of this page here so I can attach things to this I could put another envelope on that I could make a pocket I could attach some paper and have a top you know opening pocket and then I've got some newspaper clippings that's April 2007 that's me and my friend we were in the paper we were drinking in a bar and then this here is from 1993 and me and my friends are here we were at the very front of the road show the radio one road show used to always come to the Plymouth hoe and we would get up at 5 30 in the morning to get to the front okay I've just sorted out that next page because again it had some things visible but these are all letters which I've used a big older envelope here which had nothing in it it was just amongst everything so those are just other letters in there this is a little note from my godparents these are old bottle tops like school you put your straw through the top just nice little page turners so again there's not too much going on there because I've got things just to the kind of off screen that I'm going to be adding to all this this is a photo of me and my sister my mum had quite a few of them you usually get like only four or five this one was always lying around but I just thought there's lots of space here to journal and it just made a good page so that's me and my sister I think I was about maybe nine eight or nine there yeah because my sister looks about three so three or four yeah I reckon so anyway more pages there let's see other page there from the guidebook that's some wrapping paper from one of my presents when I was little and then again these are kind of like filler pages so this is just from a notebook but it's just got space there for me to add to this is the picture building this is the big kind of envelopes it's all stitched here and here this is what these bits were in so these kind of puzzle pages but at the top here it's got a nice big pocket so again if I've got other bits well I have I'll be able to put that all in there and that's the other part of it you can see where they've stitched through the signature there but I can attach stuff to that now all of these I can attach more things to so it's going to grow over time and after this video I'm going to end up you know sticking everything else in this is from the Royal Wedding from Charles and Diana you see the initials there that was the year I see my mum was pregnant with me and they kept it so yeah it's now made its way to me along the years and I've just thought I'd pop it in here but I might do something else with that because it's quite nice so it's just displayed better more bits and pieces here and then there's an envelope there I'm going to flip it over you can see another pocket again more pages and then I've got these again which have just added bits and pieces as the arrival of one of my friend's little boys that's a thank you card from my best friend for being her bridesmaid and then again they're all just more pages that is my Nan's shortbread recipe I've also got it in my actual recipe book but that's the original one with it all on there again just extra bits to attach things to that's another one of these big kind of puzzle pages you can see the other one there the big train on it and the Queen Mary in the background and then you've got more pages yep so then yeah just checking what I've got here this here is I've I've always been a massive fan of the series Bewitched and I've had this that my mum got me many years ago now and it is an old bag Happy Halloween Bewitched weekdays 4 30 p.m and then that's the TV station there so obviously this has come from America and then on this side it's got Scooby-Doo Where Are You weekdays at 3 30 p.m and yeah it's just really nice I was going to put it in a frame and have it up at Halloween time but I just kind of never really got around to doing it so I just like it I'm going to keep it so I've popped it in its own little pocket and then again all more pages there's another envelope there with a letter in I've also got these little pom-pom paper clips so I can add things to there there's another one of those little cards and then here is a big photocopy of a telegram that my Nan had on the birth of my mum I believe it was so that's on the other side you'll see that in a moment but the original is in a frame at my Nan's and then more bits and pieces then these are all like wedding invites and thank thank you kind of cards things again I just don't want to get rid of more wedding invitations another envelope with a letter and then that's the other end here yeah so the book's getting quite unopened it's kind of flat down now so it's a bit easy for me to open um yeah there's the other end of that telegram there and then more letters just kind of paper clipped on here it's just basically a home for those bits and bobs well thank you it's my close friend Catherine that's her wedding invitation so was that the thing that's the thank you sorry for my wedding and this is all going to be filled up but lots of people always say they want to see them when they're filled so I'm kind of showing you a partially filmed filled but I obviously don't want to share every single thing on here it's another letter thank you letter for a wedding this is another one of those kind of photos of me that had fallen out of a bigger collage so I've just stuck it in that envelope I was really not happy to wear my school uniform it was probably first day back after some holidays or something but um yeah I still got that frown now and then this is a letter from 1996 and that again is from my godparents more wedding invitations there thank yous yeah thank you card more letters and stuff in here and then again fillers and stuff and then this one here always makes me laugh because me and my sister were bridesmaids and we just clearly were not happy and didn't want to be in it my sister never really liked wearing clothes full stop so that was a really challenging day for her to have to keep the bridesmaid dress on and I just am not particularly this kind of girly girl and uh yeah it was funny we had these head pieces on I remember mine was giving me a headache and that was probably 1990 early 1990s it's just a funny photo to keep that's a letter from my dad along with many more in here and then this is from I went away to a youth hostel with my primary school I think when I was in year six and that is a letter from my auntie that she sent me there more pages more postcards from my dad I've doubled them up just so I could get as many in there I've got another letter in here that I can get out and look at another letter from my auntie it's the cover for the pages that I've used throughout my name in there 1989 but the full one is in here which is 1988 again more postcards there another letter in the back side so that kind of was part of this bigger signature no that is the end of the signature there so you can kind of see the you know the back of the the actual journal there I put a playing card in there as well it's another little you know thing to attach other bits to that's um some paper clippings from my close friend Leanne who sadly passed away in 2001 um she was on the front of our local paper so I've kept all of that and then more bits and pieces there again lots you know places for me to fill more wedding invitations that's a pocket at the top there as well for me to add things to so once you can kind of see how this is all filled up with bits and bobs I've got another wedding invite that's my friend Louise there her wedding was announced in the paper um that one's caught in there another letter more invites more weddings I've had lots of weddings that's my sister's save the date her wedding that's my actual main brownie guide book there and that was the one from 1988 at the date inside I've given that one its own pocket there so you know I haven't kind of taken that one apart or anything more letters that's a little friendship card that my one of my friends gave me who I'm still friends with this here is my granddad and this was a receipt for those two things there's a receipt in there for his car that he purchased and it was a Morris minor um yeah so again just a little I like things like that more postcards more postcards another letter I've added that bottle piece there to turn the page and then you've got another big there's the color image of that train and the Queen Mary and then the black and white one was earlier on you can see the brownie guide book there there's something to do with record breakers there I think maybe I was trying to think I'd achieved a world record another one of those little cards that's from my dad if I open up this it's a double pocket with all letters in there's lots of the blueies if I just do that yeah these are the blueies that my dad would send when he was serving in the navy so I've got quite a few of them so I thought it was a nice place to keep them and then that just folds over and it all folds up that way and then that address it doesn't matter that was somewhere I used to live many years ago so there's another letter and then again bits and bobs oh that's just a funny one from a boxing day and then that is part of the book but again there's Sam the dog and I just like it because it's got my name there here I've got all different wristbands from different concerts I've been to festivals and so on I've got my Justin Timberlake lanyard there when I saw him in concert in 2005 I believe so I've kept all that that's parts of my diary which obviously I don't know her anymore but a friend at the time stole my diary and ripped it up and that was what I managed to salvage more letters and then all this to fill and do more with and then the last signature oh yeah there's the picture of me and some friends that was on another road show um some years on from that other one um again we were right at the very front we used to all stay at mine and we would get up very very early and to get right to the front you can see all the hundreds and thousands of people behind us so it's always a good day and then yeah the last signature more tickets from different festivals so it's and so so forth take that wheel young I've loved wheel young Justin Timberlake ones there I've got all different kind of tickets quite a few in there and then that's another letter from my nan tickets and so on here and it's always a good one when you sit down sometimes and some you know you say oh when did you go to when did we go to that concert when did we do that I can literally look in here and get the ticket so it's uh yeah it's a good one and then that's the back end of this is the big lighthouse on Plymouth Ho where I live um so it's a nice big picture but it was all folded up and stuff and I know I wouldn't never put it in a frame today so it's now I've got a home in here and there you go that's the very end and this again I've got room to be able to add more things too and then I finished it by covering it with the twinkle 1982 and then it also has the back of the book there twinkle 1982 special especially for little girls I just really like the imagery it's all the colors that I like and the whole thing fathoms like so and it looks really nice in my craft room on one of my shells with my other kind of albums and so on and um yeah I've got room to be able to keep adding to it now so like I said I'm going to put the rest of the bits and bobs that I've got in there and it's just nice to have everything organized and all in this nice album so I can just kind of grab it um and it's a nice kind of little thing to hand down you know through family with my memories in it so yeah hopefully that's just given some inspiration for those that know how to do junk journals and stuff um this is just my version um I know there's lots more I can do with it and um I've also protected the corners there with some of the page corner metal corner protectors and I'm not used to doing these kind of flick through um kind of videos but I know there were a few people in the live that wanted to see this when I had kind of finished it so here it is and um hopefully it's inspired you know some of you to make your own like I said I will link the Facebook live below and um you can get the measurements and everything there if you do want to make one and um yeah thank you for watching see you later bye