The BookMooch Journals

This journal is a small pocket calendar I received from a kind Bookmooch member as a gift in a big package of books. I don’t have any use for it, but I thought it would be a shame to just throw it out, so I turned it into a journal.

There is no specific theme for this journal, you may simply add anything you find interesting or want to share. It can be artwork, texts, newspaper articles or anything else. Take as many pages as you want, but don’t alter anyone else’s work. Relist and send the journal along as soon as possible after receiving it. When the book is full, please let me know (Hannah; BMid: hanhel) so that I can mooch it back from you.

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This is a BMJournal celebrating all things related to cats. Please feel free to draw, paint, write poetry and prose, all related to the wonderful animal that is the cat! If you have any questions, or need to return the journal to me, the original owner, my BM user id is:karli, at http://bookmooch.com/karli. When the journal is full, please, return it back to me!
Many thanks and have fun,
Caroline Blaha-Black

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This journal is the “BMJournal – The Compiled Wisdom of Only the Very Wisest BMJournal-ers”This is an Altered Book that is only 25 or so pages. The pages are glued together so they are THICK, you can get wild and crazy with this book. It was a book about words of wisdom for graduates, heck, we all need words of wisdom. Use the words on the page …or not! I don’t care. Give me words of wisdom, people of wisdom, books of wisdom, paintings of wisdom, wisdom teeth—whatever. Get inspired and do something that will change the course of history. Have Fun! – Just remember to be VERY WISE.
Don’t keep it more than a week or two. It will get around quickly, and be inexpensive to mail also.
Get wild and crazy! I don’t care. My journals are always rated “R”. Just have fun. Get as creative as you would like, add a drawing, write a poem or a thought. Anything and everything goes! From collages, photos, ACEO, altered art, scrapbooking, & quotes, to anything else that “floats your boat”. Please stick to one to two pages (a double spread) in the journal per person- I would like as many people as possible to share! (But if you have ever seen a journal I have done, you know how I get around that!) I left the front & back covers incomplete, so everyone can add one or two items as a collective artwork.
Please be respectful. Don’t write on the same page of someone else’s contribution, and don’t change or add to anyone’s entry. (Except, of course, for the cover art work.) Just be courteous of others. If you feel up to it, share something about you…as little or as much as you want! It would be nice to put your name, state or country, date your work & use your bookmooch info. If you do Artist Trading Cards send one to me via my contact info in the book and I will gladly send you one of mine.
Please, when this book is full return it to me by listing it on bookmooch and I will mooch it back from you. Or mailing it to me. Thanks!
Cathy Hogue aka VelcroDog

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Mammock pie was all I remember my mother cooking at home. To us it came to mean a concoction of any left-over morsels that could be found in the larder, it varied widely and was never the same twice. “We have nothing else to tear it with,” replied Wamba; “but mine are scarce fit to make mammocks of freestone and mortar.” The word probably derives from a Gaelic word for a hill or handful. The word has come to mean something torn or shredded, and was used by Shakespeare in its verb form.
I had originally earmarked this Czech calendar (2001) for making a recipe book as it has two tags in its card end sheets which lock together to make it free-standing. (Because of this I would ask people to add recipes or notes with the text written landscape facing the edge of the book. This may make the ingredients face one way when open and the recipe the opposite, but will mean it can sit in the kitchen in use and readable.)
On reflection I wanted it to contain more than just food recipes – uses for all sorts of surpluses like rose petals, collected beach pebbles, hazel nuts, a good catch of fish, plants that will dye fabrics, as well as the usual rush of runner beans, green tomatoes, blackcurrants, apples etc. that your garden or friends may give you. My most unusual urban surpluses have been tiny buttons from a shirt-making factory and lumpy glue from a factory making suitcases; my country surpluses include a spring flush of milk, redcurrants, mushrooms, grass cuttings and horse manure!
Take opposite pages for an entry, use more than one pair anywhere you please, perhaps in the appropriate month, and please keep the journal circulating so that it can return to me completed as soon as possible.Send me images if possible to add to the journal site slide show, and contact me if you have any problems or queries or it is full or damaged.
Gill Tennant, Cymru / Wales BM id: tennantfamily:U.K. December 2010

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