Gocco box journals

I mentioned yesterday that I'd made a gift for someone from a used Gocco box and today I felt like showing it off.

The fact that Gocco supplies have gone out of production has led me to not just be a hoarder of supplies for future use but also a saver of spent ones. I love the bold yellow boxes that the Gocco bulbs come in and I've been flattening them out and holding on to them for a few months. I am so glad my pack-rat ways paid off when I had the idea to have them turned into spiral bound notebooks!

I think they look pretty slick and cost less than $4 each to bind at the nearby copy shop. I also used the sides of the boxes to make bookmarks and the tab ends as stickers,

Of course I definitely couldn't part with the burned out flashbulbs that die two by two with every edition either. Until I think of something else, I've been storing them in some glass jars on the shelf above my desk. Maybe if I run out of jars I'll string them up on our Christmas tree.

My fancy wall

I noticed quite a few of my favorite bloggers have been showing peeks of their own homes and displays of their favorite possessions. I really like seeing the homes of artists because they are often very thoughtful spaces filled with unexpected treasures.

It is amazing to me how much my home is my mirror reflection. When I'm feeling happy; my home is bright and clean. When I'm feeling moody or stressed; I tear the place apart. Justin just sort of goes with the flow. Our home is in a pretty constant state of change. It gets messy then clean and I'm often rearranging everything. Our apartment now is quite small and the three rooms have very obvious roles but when we lived in a bigger place; I was constantly switching the bedroom, office, living room and studio locations.

I thought I'd share a few images of a wall in our home that displays an ever-growing art collection. The wall is devoted to our small artworks (primarily prints). They are arranged in a semi-orderly blob that builds in an organic formation as we accumulate more art. I think we are beginning to run out of room though.

Pictures of our wall with notes over each print crediting the artists can be found here and here.