I will post pictures of each day completion of Wreck This Journal. Click the links to see the page.

  • Day 1: This book belongs to...
    • Today I used: nail polish (my two favorite shades, one of a wine red and the other of peaches),markers, highlighters, pencils, watercolor paints (with hardly any water), blue sapphire sheer ribbon, a photograph of my sister, mother and I on Halloween, Spongebob stickers, mascara, a whole dump and splash of Cherry Blossom spray onto the pages, beads from my little sister's bead set that read "Feel from the crazy heart", wood glue, a dead flower from a set I received from my boyfriend, the tag from my favorite dress, one Arthur sticker that I found in a coloring book and a foam cross.
  • Day 2: Color this entire page.
    • These pages went terribly wrong. A scene of rain on the left-hand side uses silver glitter, cut-up origami paper, fake leaves, a frog sticker and burlap material. A layer on burlap with a felt heart in the middle was made to conceal the collage contained from magazine strips inside the flaps. The collage was made to conceal a horrible Sharpie/watercolor design duo on Color This Entire Page.
  • Day 3: Tear Strips; Rip it Up!
    • On the left side was a free page that I made into a Kiss This Page. I then proceeded with kissing the page using each shade of lipstick I owned. Feathers, ribbon, watercolor and glitter glue line the edges. On the right side, craft scissors made incisions in the page. Watercolor is accompanied by glitter and collage material.
  • Day 4: Trace Your Hand
    • This page has a lot of meaning to me. I used Sharpie marker and highlighter to trace both my hand and my boyfriend's hand. I traced his in pink-red and mine in blue, as a joke that I wear the pants in the relationship. I then used purple marker to write a spur-of-the-moment poem- purple symbolizing the color that is made when red is in conjunction with blue. The spur-of-the-moment poem reads: Dozakh. I feel without. Sempre. Winged. 1000 untold stories through temporary laughter. Mustn't be misunderstood. For light shines only then through these winged kisses.
  • Day 5: Write with the pen in your mouth
    • This page hosts child-ish drawings. On the left side is a basic crayon sketch with beads (I did this while it was storming outside) made to recreate childish drawings I used to do. On the right side is more of that, with scrawls of my handwriting and my boyfriend's while the pen was in our mouths, which strangely resembled my hand-writing in kindergarten.
  • Day 6: Write backward
    • Petrichor is inscribed backwards on the right side- which means the smell of rain on dry Earth. A Feather cloud rains down on some brown Earthen crayon. On the left side is some watercolor base accompanied by a backwards rendition of my poetry.
  • Day 7:Crack the spine & Leave this page BLANK on purpose.
    • Instead of actually cracking the spine (because I'm less destructive than the aura I give off) I hand-drew my interpretation of spines using a pencil, overlapping them. I then placed an incredible toast bandage onto the "bleeding" page, with the adhesive label below it. To the right, I blatantly disregarded the directions by scrawling in red "I do not follow anyone" across the page. Bitter poison into my veins- cut from a magazine- titles the angst-like pages.
  • Day 8: Stand Here: Wipe your feet, jump up and down.
    • It was plenty of fun to coat my feet in watercolors. Fortunately my small print fit upon each page nicely- as petite as could be. Two quotes accompany the design- one from a card, another from the pages of my yearbook- as said by an English teacher I once had.
  • Day 9: Create a drawing using a piece of your hair
    • I had just read A Picture of Dorian Gray for school- so I chopped off a little sliver of my hair and made a whirlwind representation of my soul through the watercolor paint- keeping in line with that mysterious and wonderful Oscar Wilde theme.
jul 26 2012 ∞
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