Continuing to Smash Things

Smash book pages as of late (per challenge no. 26):

 Stunning marbled paper from Il Papiro in Venice.

A collection of restaurant business cards from our trip. Canuleia in Lucca was my favorite.

William Carlos Williams makes a Smash book appearance.

A piece from religious service no. 4 + Orangelephant.

Book Look

A few recent pages from my Smash book, courtesy of challenge no. 26:

Painting inspiration

List love + vintage Paris

More Smash

The Smash Book adventure (challenge no. 26) continues. My friend Erica (check out her awesomeness called Street Manner here and her equally drool-able Tumblr here) sent me the picture below, and it has inspired me to play around more with different textures for a more tactile Smash Book experience. I'm trying to avoid turning it into a something a fifth grader would put together.

Speaking of something a fifth grader might put together, here are some of the pages I've been working on:

Quick note about the book in red above. It is a hilarious spoof on the popular grammar book, The Elements of Style. This would make a great gift for any writer in your life. A-ny writer at all.

Leonard Turk, ESQ.

This SMASH book business (challenge no. 26) is turning out to be quite fun. Here are a few pages I've concocted as of late.

I asked people at work to look at this picture and write down the first name that came to mind:

My design obsession making an appearance:

Example of a total mish-mash page:

A page dedicated to Christmas that a very special scrapbooking connoisseur helped me create: 

 Some of my favorite pictures of my favorite boyfriend:

This one isn't in my book. YET.

The above image is for smile purposes only. I do not do drugs. Ma.

Do What's Easy

I heard this song yesterday via one of my daily blog stops, Dooce. I thought it was so beautiful and haunting and ironic in the the fact that the lyrics represent the complete opposite of how I have chosen to live my twenty-ninth year:

I loved it so much that I wrote out the lyrics onto one of my many magazine tear-outs and slapped that sucker into my Smash book (challenge #26):

In case anyone is wondering, this is exactly how I plan to live my 30th year. Except for maybe the reading and writing part.

SMASHing

You can go ahead and get used to the bad pun titles. I have to get them out of my system somehow. If I use them at work they beat me with a sackful of doorknobs and call me names.

I didn't know what a SMASH Book was when I received the challenge to keep one throughout my 29th year. But then I found this adorable video:

And THEN I received a package containing a SMASH Book and assorted goodies, including stamps, tags, little envelopes, paperclips and bookmarks.* I cannot wait to get started. This might not be the easiest year of my life, but I'll be damned if it's not the cutest. 

*Thank you Judy!