Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This art journal started out as an altered post card album but things got weird. Watch as I show how I took a broken book and made it better. The process was imperfect but believe me, much about making and saving altered books is very imperfect – a matter of being resourceful and taking a chance.

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