April | 2008 | The BookMooch Journals

Bear Riding on a Train: Your Childhood Journey

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

My theme is: Your childhood journey (Bear Riding on a Train). Our childhood can seem so long when we are kids, but it goes by so fast.

What was your favorite childhood food? What did the house you grow up in look like? Do you have a story from your childhood that most of your friends roll their eyes and say, “No that story again!”. Draw the lay out of your house, what did your room look like when you were 12? What lunch did your mom pack every day? What was your favorite Halloween? Remember when you go the dog you always wanted? Did you move away from all your friends and you never forgot your last day with your best friend? Draw, write, remember but most of all tell me about your childhood journey.

Please let what you write be something my children & I can read together!

Create your artistic journal entry- relist on bookmooch and pass it on.(hopefully to someone with good feedback! 😉 The last entrant will then mail it back to the owner Ashley (USA: GA) user id: faith4jesus.

– Ashley

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as a slideshow:

and as stills:

Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3

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The Collaborative Novel

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

Writing is another form of art. The Collaborative Novel is a Book Mooch Journal where each person has the ability to add to the story created by the owner. Each person is given the power to write in characters, plot, setting, flashbacks or anything else. The story will then be continued until the pages are filled. Then the book will be typed up as best as possible and shared for the world to enjoy. The only rules are that it needs to be rated (PG-13). Please try to keep profanity, sex and lots of violence out of your artistic expression. If you mooch the journal, you should be prepared to write a couple of pages, but you should also feel free to write up to 20. Lastly, on the first page, which is blank, write your name and city to the author list.

Want to drop in some illustrations? Great! Tape a photo or draw a picture to let everyone else see what you saw happening.

If you would like, use this website to type in a summary of what you wrote so that the previous people can see how the story developed.

–Joseph DeSilva

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1,000 Places to See Before You Die

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

After spending three years traveling the USA in a RV, I came to believe that every town, no matter how small, has some unusual claim to fame. It could be a person, a geographic feature, a building, an event, whatever it is that makes your town famous. The idea behind this journal is for you to tell us about the unusual fame your town claims, and design one or more pages and tell us about it. Use photographs, drawings, ATCs, stamp art, portions of travel brochures, written text, and so forth. Anything goes!

At the end of it’s journey, This Altered Book will be returned to it’s owner, [Kenenth G Samson] who may be reached through his account at BookMooch. [BookMooch ID: samsonkg]

Rules: none, really – as far as journals go. I want you to be as creative as you’d like, adding anything, altering the existing blank pages in the book with your own creative art. Do not alter the pages that have travel tips, however!

–Kenneth

This journal was returned to its creator when he began travelling himself. We have listed a new journal 1000 places to see before you die Part Two, which is moochable.

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This journal is no longer traveling.

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Covers Recreated: Iconographic, iMmodest and Erotic [CRIME]

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

The book is actually the Granta 2007 Diary as shown below, which I mooched specifically to turn it into a BMJournal.

On the Left handed pages, full-color reproductions of famous, steamy and not so steamy crime novels and pulp fiction appear. The right-handed pages are blank. As only a hot-blooded male could dream up, I envision the right-handed pages containing art from BookMoochers, recreating the Covers on the left, making them iconographic, immodest and erotic! Here’s a chance to let yourself go, designing and creating the book covers as you would have done them, given the chance!

At the end of it’s journey, This Altered Book will be returned to it’s owner, [Kenenth G Samson] who may be reached through his account at BookMooch. [BookMooch ID: samsonkg]

Rules: none, really – as far as journals go. I want you to be as creative as you’d like, adding anything, altering the existing blank Right-handed pages in the book with your own creative ‘cover-art.’

–Kenneth

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This journal is no longer traveling.

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Celebrating Parents and children

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This journal is a celebration of parents and children. Write a letter to your parents or children, create a collage, tell a story, etc. The possibilities are endless. The only requirement is that it pertains to the topic. If you have children, love your parents, love someone else’s children, or want to have a child someday, this is the journal for you. After altering your page or two, please sign with your bookmooch username and your name if you wish, along with the date you completed your artwork, then release it back into the bookmooch community.

Once the book is full please return it to me (BM username childlikefaith).

–Melissa

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Posting Bookmoocher’s Secrets!

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This journal is part of the Bookmooch Journal Project. After you mooch and receive this book, please register your mooch at bookcrossing, and then be prepared to reveal your great(est) secret to fellow bookmoochers! Frank Warren’s hit series of “post secret” books inspired this journal, and I’m sure many fellow bookmoochers have some great secrets they are just dying to share with someone! So sit down with this funky journal, bare your soul and share your deepest and darkest secrets (or a lighter secret, if you feel so inclined) while enjoying reading the secrets of other bookmoochers. No need to sign your real name here, just use your bookmooch username as your signature at the end (providing you with at least some mere shadow of anonymity!). Log in your catch on bookcrossing, and then set the book free again to pass on to another bookmoocher!

– Hebamashundi

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The Great Scrapbooking and Art Adventure

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This journal is part of the Bookmooch Journal Project. After you mooch and receive this book, alter a page or two to add your own artwork or display your scrapbooking skills. The art/scrapbooked page should be related (however loosely) to the themes of reading, and/or books. Create your art page, and then on the adjacent page include some short notes about yourself, your masterpiece, and your favourite book(s). Log in your catch on bookcrossing, and then set the book free again to pass on to another bookmoocher!

– Hebamashundi

Status: This book appears to not be traveling.

Filed under: Journal, Not Traveling | Tagged: art, books, reading, scrapbook | 1 Comment »

Around the World in 1,000 Pictures

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This is an Altered Book from The BookMooch Journal Project. The book is a 1956 printing originally titled AROUND THE U.S.A. IN 1,000 PICTURES, loaded with, yes, 1,000 vintage photos! It was a book that was just begging to be given a new life as an altered book, with dreams of traveling all over the WORLD, meeting BookMoochers and collecting snapshots, ATCs, AECOs, multimedia art, paintings and drawings, doodles and scribbles, postage stamps, rubber stamps, found objects and anything else that creative souls around the world feel inspired to add to it before sending it along to another BookMoocher to play with. At the end of it’s long journey, This Altered Book will be returned to it’s owner, [Kenenth G Samson] who may be reached through his account at BookMooch. [BookMooch ID: samsonkg]

Rules: none, really – as far as journals go. I want you to be as creative as you’d like, adding anything, altering the existing pages in the book, incorporating existing pictures originally published in the book or covering them entirely with your own art. I especially love ATCs and drawings and multimedia and found objects, but look forward to seeing all the cool, creative things you will do with this journal before passing it on.

There IS one unbreakable rule, though….. after you are done adding your art, please put the journal back into this same page I’ve created for it here at BookMooch so someone else can mooch it and add to it, and when it is full, please contact me to arrange return of this treasure to me.

–Ken

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The last record of this journal is that it was marked received by Leah (USA:NC) in Oct 07.

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Moleskine Bird Art Journal

Posted on April 8, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

The subject matter of this art journal is birds (and related things like nests, eggs, trees, birdcages, etc.). When you receive this journal, please add your artwork on one or more pages, then re-list it on BookMooch under the same ASIN so that project participants can follow it. When the book is full, please email me (user name bookarts) and I will provide an address for its return. Thanks!

–BookArts