The Little Book of Surprising Strangers

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This journal is a challenge. I would like you to (pleasantly) surprise one (or more!) random strangers in a public place.

Maybe the older lady in front of you at the cinema has really beautiful eyes- tap her on the shoulder and share your compliment. Someone sitting on a park bench reading a book? Buy them a coke and wish them a good day. This challenge is limited only by your imagination- you could say it’s a Little Book that hopes to inspire some good deeds, keeping in mind that brightening someone’s day by complimenting their outfit can brighten their day and surprise them so much that it can counteract a supremely bad day.

You can write about your experience and as always feel free to even draw something to illustrate it, but personally I got the people I approached to write a little line in the book, simply explaining that the journal was a project I was working on, but not its connection to my random comment/act.

When full, please return to Snofferol.

-Loraine

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The Chocolate Box

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This gorgeous little cerise pink book is dedicated to chocolate. Chocolate recipes, wrappings, quotes, and anything chocolate inspired – poems, stories, art, all “chocolate-box pretty”. Think girly but glorious, delectable, decadent and divine. This is not a box of chocolates to be enjoyed in your jim-jams, crying over your favourite chick flick on the sofa. This is the type you indulge in while soaking in a candle-lit bath of something rose-scented and expensive.

If you need inspiration, I’ve included my favourite hot chocolate recipe to get you in the mood. Sit back, relax, and dip into The Chocolate Box…

– laurajames

This journal has been kept by an inactive and unresponsive journaller.


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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This is a journal where you can take as many pages as you’d like to list or collage or paint or draw some of your favorite things. Favorite books, favorite movies, favorite foods, favorite flowers, favorite animals etc.etc. It’s a good way for all of us to get to know each other and an interesting way to share our interests and learn about new books, musicians, movies, foods etc. Enjoy!

– renarossner

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and as stills:

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The Spider Sketchbook

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

Part art project, part nature journal and for some of you, part therapy, this book may require you to be very brave indeed. If you are still interested, read on… It’s simple – find one spider, capture it, draw it, try to identify it, and then release it. To carry out this task you will have to really LOOK at your spider. Visit your local library or use the internet for tips on catching spiders and identifying them. You will be amazed at the variety and beauty of spiders (I hope!), and you may learn to overcome a long held fear. And none of this “I can’t draw” nonsense! If you can hold a pencil, you can draw. I didn’t know I could draw until I started my spider notebook. The aim is to observe your spider well enough to sketch it and note its features. Use pen, pencil, pastels or paints. I’ve included some of my own sketches to get you started and to introduce you to some of my favourites, such as the spitting spider, a slow moving creature which pins down its prey with a zig-zagged jet of sticky glue, and the almost day-glo green, orb-web spinning cucumber spider. Any takers? (If you can’t face it but you know someone who’ll give it a go, mooch it for them). -Laura

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and some stills: Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3, Pg 4, Pg 5, Pg 6, Pg 7, Pg 8, Pg 9, Pg 10, Pg 11, Pg 12, Pg 13

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Book Quotes – A Journal for Booklovers

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

I have collected quotes about books and about reading for many years so I wanted a place to collect them all, to share them with others and to get others to add their favorite quotes about books. You can also add or make up your own quotes about why you love books (I did!). Enjoy!

– renarossner 

The moocher who requested this journal from Rena did not know about journalling and just included it in a package to another moocher without points so it is not traceable as it has not resurfaced. It must be regarded as lost.

More images:

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and as stills:

Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3

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Animals of Life

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This journal is dedicated to the animals of your life. Perhaps you had a favorite pet as a child. Did you raise a horse, or perhaps it was a hippopotamus? Did you feed a neighbor’s turkey, Or the neighborhood orangutan?

All I ask is to not to change anyone’s work, or write over it, or cover it up. Keep within the two week time limit, and then post it to have some one else mooch it. When this journal is full, please send it back to Debbie Hoggan (Bookmooch ID: hogganclan).

-Debbie

This journal had been incorrectly listed without the BMJournal tag and thus losing its identifying links. It is now back in circulation under the correct number. 

Click on the blue underlined link in the journal description to see the slideshow. 

 

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Plain and Simple Journal

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

This journal, created by Sue Bender, features quotes from her book Plain and Simple, line drawings and color illustrations, and blank space for reflection. A fascination with Amish quilts led Sue to live with the Amish in their seemingly timeless world, a landscape of immense inner quiet. This privilege, rarely bestowed upon outsiders, taught her about simplicity and commitment and the contentment that comes from accepting who you are. The publisher describes this journal as: “Infused with the quiet spirit of the Amish.”

That’s about to change.

This is now a Journal for The BookMooch Journal Project.
[ http://bmjournal.wordpress.com/about/ ]

Theme: Open. Plain. Simple. (Or, for you rebellious artists, just the opposite.)

Write a note, add a story, add your artwork. Decorate some pages. Don’t have an idea? There’s a quote or image on almost every page to work from.

You are encouraged to sign your contribution, with your BookMooch username and your name if you wish, along with the date you completed your artwork. Feel free to pass the book around to your local friends, who aren’’t on BookMooch, as long as you’’re confident they will get it back into the system.

After you and your fellow creatives 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 Tim who may be reached through his account at BookMooch [http://www.bookmooch.com/m/bio/ereneta], to send the journal home.

-Tim

This journal was sent to Beth (USA: AL)  splomo but not resent: last here 400 days ago (as of  Oct. 22 2010).

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Putting a Face to the Name

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

I’ve bought an autograph book and I’d like you all to sign it, but there’s a catch – you must add a passport photo of yourself so I can put a face to the name (geddit?). As it passes along we’ll all get to know each other better. And being camera shy is no excuse, you’ll just have to improvise. Disguise yourself, strike a pose, get a pot plant to stand in for you, or dig out one of your old passport pictures. So long as the photo was taken INSIDE a booth, represents you in some way, and is accompanied by your autograph, I’m happy.

– laurajames

More images:

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and as stills:

Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3, Pg 4, Pg 5, Pg 6, Pg 7, Pg 8, Pg 9

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The Little Book of Pop CULTure

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

Another of my “Little Book” journals. This is a place to celebrate all those icons and figures who have a place in our personal pop culture collections, for all those with a cult following. This is not the place for the commercial as such, rather the slightly more undercurrent, the somewhat to the left, a little bit more interesting. Instead of Garfield, think Betty Boop. Rather than Oprah, go with Conan O’Brien.

Please relist here when done and once full return to Snofferol.

-Loraine

Apparently either never sent or lost.

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Embarrassments of Life

Posted on April 16, 2008 by bookmoochjournals

What is the most embarrassing experience of your life? Did you happen to say something very embarrassing at the wrong time? How about spilling all over your boss’s shirt? Perhaps a burp came out in the front of a group of clients. You must have been embarrassed on that blind date.

Share your most embarrassing moments of life with your Bookmooch friends. All I ask is to not to change anyone’s work, or write over it, or cover it up. Keep within the two week time limit, and then post it to have some one else mooch it.

When this journal is full, please send it back to Debbie Hoggan.

-Debbie

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