Here again

Hello all, long time no see! I am so sorry I haven't been updating for a very, very long time. I had planned I would update on Christmas holiday, I took the pictures and all, but never got the energy to do an actual post with those pics. After the holidays I've just been super busy with my studies and everything else has been pushed to the backseat.

Enough blabbering and let's go and see what has happened to my journal during the last few months. On the Christmas holiday I wanted to do something simple, which wouldn't require any creativity and ended up poking some holes, yay! It was quite aggressive task but so fun!

The holes from the front and the back.

A close-up with the HOLES.

Another simple task I accomplished during the holidays was colouring a page with only one colour. I didn't write "done" to the page though, because I'm not sure if it is ready yet. I thinkg it might need a bit more of something.

What a great piece of art!

Last week I finally did something I had planned for a long time: tongue painting! I've never fancied candy that colours your tongue, so I decided to do this a bit differently. I was eating some blueberries with yoghurt the other day and remembered this page. I have to say I didn't like the taste of the page very much... I've planned to decorate this page more when I get inspiration. Maybe I could draw some blueberries in there?

Tongue painting with blueberries.

You might remember the paper chain from which I wrote some time ago. Well, it isn't looking so fabulous anymore, poor thing. It has gone trough a lot, most of it during the time when I was moving from one apartment to another. I feel a bit sad for it, don't you :(

The paper chain has gone trough some very difficult times.

And what would a post be without the fruit sticker page? I'm feeling a bit sad for this too, because it's almost full already :( I want to collect more stickers! And I want them to be different. It bothers me that there seems to be only Chiquita and Royal Gala stickers. I think the bottom of the bage looks much better because there is much more variety.

Fruit sticker page on 01/03/12

Explanations

Hello, and sorry for the blog silence. I have been extremely busy with all kinds of things, so I haven't had any time for wrecking in the past weeks. I'll continue to be very busy for the next couple of weeks too, so I really don't know when I will have time to do some wrecking or time to post about it.

So what have I been doing and what will I do, if I'm so ridiculously busy..? Well mainly I've been busy with school work (gazillions of reports, yay), watching TV and decorating in Sims 2...

A kitchen I made in Sims 2.

Storage system in another Sims 2 apartment.

However, my excuses for not to be wrecking in the next couple of weeks are maybe a bit better than that... I am moving to another apartment soon, so I have to pack things and clean like crazy. At the same time I have to do more and more reports for school and some exams too, because the semester is about to end soon. Then there is this big holiday called Christmas coming too, so I should be making some cards and shop some gifts too.

These are not reports, but some other school stuff which are happily killing my brains...

Tracing and Chains

Hello! Today I'm going to show you some wreckings I did last weekend. The thing for the weekend was tracing, so here we go!

The first thing I did was tracing things in my bag. This is what I usually have with me in a handbag:

- calendar (=kalenteri)

- lip balm (apparently I have two...) (=huulirasva)

- xylitol gum (=purkka)

- phone (=puhelin)

- ipod

- wallet (=lompakko)

- keys (=avaimet)

- bus card. (=bussikortti)

Things in my bag.

I often have moisturizing cream too, but this time it was lurking somewhere else and my hands didn't like that very much... And I have to say the keys  and all stuff with them were very difficult to trace! As you might see from the picture...

I also traced something else... my hand!

My left hand.

I'm not sure if I like the result or not. I think it looked ok as long as I hadn't coloured the background brown. But at the time I thought it was a good idea to colour the back, because the page was very light otherwise. Well, I just have to live with this I guess. It doesn't look anything like my hand really. My nails don't look like that at all (they're not that clean and polished with pink), my fingers look much more like sausages etc.

I also did a paper chain, yay. I forgot to take pictures from the page before I had transformed it to a paper chain, but maybe it doesn't bother you so much as it bothers me...

Lightly coloured paper chain.

So I coloured the page, cut it to pieces, glued the pieces together in circles and finally glued the chain in the journal. I had planned to do this much much later, but ended up doing it already, because I was bored apparently. The reason I planned to do this later was that now I don't dare to take the journal with me anywhere in case the chain will break... (I wrote brake first and LOL'd.) Well maybe I just have to win my fear and put the journal in my bag and go somewhere. If the chain'll break I'll just have to repair it!

The chain again.

I got a little excited with the camera while taking pics of the chain and ended up having like gazillion photos of it... Well, they look kinda pretty. I thought I could make a header to the blog from that pic above.

And again last but not least...

Fruit sticker page on 03/11/11

...the fruit stickers! I'm starting to think there is no post without them. I went to the shop on Monday and bought one banana, but when I was home I noticed there were two stickers on it! Good for me, eh? I also bought some more apples today, but haven't removed the stickers from them yet.

So that was all this time, hope you like it :)

Tea and Black Pages

Hello there! I haven't been able to update before today, because I haven't been able to take any pictures of my wreckings. It has always been too dark when I've been at home and the pictures taken without natural light just don't look good or right to me.

So what have I been doing lately? On Monday I bought some tea from the cafeteria. When I was drinking my tea I had no place to put the used tea bag - except my journal!

Tea art.

I'm not a very good drawer as you can see... But I tried all the same. So the funny looking brown stain is from the bottom of the tea bag. After it had dried I drew the mug, plate and table and coloured the whole thing. I also added the label from the tea bag, I think it looks nice. The text on the left says aamutee 24.10.-11 which means "morning tea 24th October 2011."

I have also decorated the edges of a drawn journal similarly to the decorations on the actual edges of the journal, as I said I would do(if you understood that sentence, congratulations!). I didn't use the same pens as doodling on the real edges, because they were too big for the small picture. I tried to use as similar colours as possible though.

Before - After

When I was watching TV the other day, I continued the scratching page. The first flower I did is the one in the far left. I think it's the best one of them and I'm doing more and more badly every time I try to scratch more... I also coloured the letters on the right page while watching TV. It says I should lose the page, but I haven't been able to accept the loss yet, so it has stayed on the journal - for now.

Scratch and colour on black.

The last but not least the fruit sticker page has been updated a little bit. I went to the shop on Tuesday and bought some apples and grapes. The grapes still didn't have any stickers on them, which is sad. I also noticed that only bananas, apples and very expensive kiwis seem to have stickers on them. I like to eat kiwis, but the cheaper ones didn't have stickers on them... Maybe that was the reason for them being cheaper? Cause of course the stickers aren't free!

Fruit sticker page on 26/10/11

Picture Spamming

Hello again! I haven't done any wrecking today (yet), but I took some pictures from the older stuff while it wasn't yet too dark.

Here's the doodlings on the edge of the journal, which I already mentioned in a previous post.

Green and blue circles with some girly pink colour on the background.

It was very difficult to get a good picture from them, but I hope that you can see something from this. I've also planned to doodle the page same way as the edges, but we'll see if that is ever going to happen...

Lately I've been adding some colour to the journal. I like to colour things, it's nice and relaxing. I've done all of these while watching TV... I'm not sure if these following pages are finished yet or not, but time will tell.

Coloured letters in the beginning of the journal. 

And pink again, girly... Maybe I should do the left page with pink too.

Well obviously the left one above isn't quite finished yet... I have some trouble with choosing the right colour for that page. Though I had problems with the right one too, but I think the result looks quite nice. I still might add something to it, but of course not inside the circle.

I'd say these aren't finished yet. I'll sew that page more when I get some great ideas.

The pages seen above are probably my favourite ones at the moment. The scratching isn't even nearly finished, I think I will decorate the whole page with flowers. Though the scratching isn't too easy thing to do... The sewed dinosaur reminds me of my childhood. I remember when I was little and did these sewing pictures with dogs and cats. I have to say that this dinosaur is much more original, rawr.

Glue with glitter, the best thing ever.

This one isn't quite finished yet. Or actually I haven't even started, 'cause it says I have to draw with the glue and I have only done some writing. This page needs some thinking, because I don't want it to end up ugly. I also think that I have to buy more glitter glue or just glitter so I can make the page look interesting, not just plain white.

I wonder if I should try to connect them in different order...

The above one was quite fun but still difficult to do. You would think that it is quite easy 'cause the dots are so big, but as you can see, I didn't make it, at the first time anyway. I think the hardest part was to change the page. But as I said, this was very fun to do, so I'm sure I will do this times and times again. I may even let someone else try to do this in my journal.

So those were the pretty, nice and colourful pictures. The next one will be fugly and boring and fugly again, at least in my opinion.

Fuglyyy :(

The left one is the name page I mentioned in an earlier post, and I hate it.

It says: write your name

- in white

- illegibly

- in tiny letters

- backward

- very faintly

-using large letters

The page on the right is for borrowed pens. It says holiday (=loma) and Emilia's (=Emilian). So I wrote holiday using Emilia's pens.

I have to tell you I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so you can understand my pain with the brown letters? You might have noticed that my name is Saara and the first brown letter doesn't look anything like S. Horrible. Though I think I might like the illegible one (second from the top)... Somehow I also don't like the right one either. I hope that it gets prettier when I get to borrow more pens.

Fruit sticker page on 22/10/11

And finally the last thing for now: the fruit sticker page! I have made some progress as you can see. It looks like I eat only bananas... Well I've eaten some grapes too, but there's no stickers in those, so poor me. Next time I go shopping I have to buy some fruit with stickers, but definitely not bananas. It's not a banana page after all.

The First Wreckings

It's time to see my first wreckings.

The first thing I did was adding my own page numbers (which was one of the tasks), but I don't have pics of them, 'cause the numbers I did don't look very interesting.

On the first day I also did:

- write my name in various styles (I'll show a pic later.)

- some doodlings on the edges of the journal (Same goes with this.)

- infuse one of the pages with eau de toilette (No pic, 'cause you can't see the smell, obviously.)

- take the book to the shower with me (This didn't go at all as planned - the journal didn't get wet at all! So maybe more on this later.)

But I do have some pics to share with you. First one is my fruit sticker page, which gave the URL-name to this blog. So here is the first picture of the page (there'll be more of this, I'm sure):

Fruit sticker page on 13/10/11

The second pic from the first wrecking day is as follows. I coloured the strips and cut them apart. After that I glued the upper part of that page with the next page, which says: glue, staple or tape these pages together.

Strips on 13/10/11. I hope they won't fall off during my wrecking process.

So was the first day of wrecking in my life. I still have some pictures in store, because I wasn't wise enough to start this blog at the same time as I started wrecking. So I might post quite frequently for now.

The Start

Some time ago I bought Wreck This Journal to brighten up the boring moments of my life. I want to share and document this experience, hence I created this blog. I don't know if anyone will read this, but at least I have a place to write my thoughts on wrecking.

This is what has happened so far:

05/10/11 - WTJ ordered and paid.

13/10/11 - WTJ brought by post.

21/10/11 - Blog.

This is how the journal looked like when I got it.

What is WTJ?

WTJ is a book by Keri Smith. The idea of the book is to create and destroy with various different styles. There is a task at every page and they are all about being creative and destructive at the same time. Here's a link: http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/