The Mini Smash Book

Hello hello!

Well, between working a relatively normal day and the fact that the sun came out for a bit properly toward the end of the day, I was able to successfully photograph my little mini smash book, which I previously mentioned here.

Don't tell anyone, but I think I might love this little mini smash more than my big one. I know, I know, but seriously, it's so adorably tiny. And everyone knows things are way cuter when they are small. 

Anyway.. I am so excited to share this with you; I think it turned out pretty great. The theme used was my trip a few weekends ago to the Fremont Sunday Market. Enjoy.

I am also especially pleased that I found a coordinating rubber band to keep this little sucker closed up. I was tempted to put stripes on it using a sharpie, but refrained. 

Happy Wednesday!

a SMASH*ing good time

I recently got my hands on a full sized smashbook (the black one, of course) and I've decided to use it as a place to gather my creative thoughts and plans. I'm really loving the mix of page designs. In fact, I have the blue one on order so I can play with one in a more scrapbooking-ish manner.

This black one will be different than what is captured in my art journal; more project focused. I'm hoping that by sticking my ideas down in a material format that I will be more accountable on actually getting them realized and shared.  I 'm excited to use this to document and to plan out things in a real and tactile fashion. Namely, blog. class and other project stuff. Sort of a physical pinterest, if you will. But more secret. ;)

For example, the above photo shows a tutorial idea in progress. You can actually see the prototype item all smashed in there for me to write notes about (can you guess what it is?).

I've almost got my tiny smash journal (turned it in to a minibook, of course) finished and ready to share. For now though, enjoying this new tool.

Have you got a smash book? What are you using it for?