A junk journal is a creative, anything-goes journal. Open your junk drawers, and invite your children or students on this ...

Bikini-clad girls sat sipping canned cocktails by the shallow end of a swimming pool. Their sunscreen glistened in the summer heat, leaving a coconut aroma in the air. But these sunbathers weren’t ...

From direct-mail advertisements, magazines and used envelopes, the scraps that humans are inclined to discard serve as the tools Jennifer Hansen uses to craft her junk journals — an eco-conscious and ...

If you’re into self help practices, chances are you write in a journal. Journaling has many benefits including creating a safe space to vent and self reflect. Now junk journaling is the newest type ...

Kaylee Chan explores memory and nostalgia by riffling through the ‘junk’ drawer with items that defined her childhood. “In the future, I’ll probably look back [and] think that my current 13-year-old ...

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Participants gather in the shade at rows of tables pushed together as they work on their journals during a meetup of the DFW Junk Journal Club at Klyde Warren Park Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Dallas.

I kept a daybook consistently throughout my high school years (ah, the ’90s) and well into my twenties, and I love to look at them now. Part scrapbook, part diary, they’re a chronicle of my teenage ...

Think of all the average trash a person goes through in one day: Straw wrappers, stickers, receipts, plastic, paper, coffee cups, bags, tags, the whole lot. Now imagine pasting every one of those ...