Just asked my mom for this for Christmas. It is for sure the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
It comes with, Wreck This Journal, This is Not a Book & Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes, by Keri Smith.
I think I would love them so much.
She has many many more if you go to her website, but for now, these are lovely.
I can’t write a ‘read more’ on a photo, so, here’s a long post, for the descriptions. I just thought they’d be a nice, inexpensive add-on for anyone not sure what to ask for this Christmas :)
Wreck This Journal
For anyone who’s ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them). Acclaimed illustrator Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in “destructive” acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting with coffee, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. Readers discover a new way of art and journal making-and new ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process.
This is Not a Journal
In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of “a book,” Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways This Is Not a Book can be used. With intriguing prompts, readers will discover that the book can be:
A secret message-tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place.
A recording device-have everyone you contact today write their name in the book.
An instrument-create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover.
This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, “If it’s not a book, what is it then?”-with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes
Your whole life you’ve been taught to avoid making a mess: Try to keep everything under control, color inside the lines, make it perfect, and at all costs, avoid contact with things that stain.
This book asks you to do the opposite of what you have been taught. Think of it as your own personal rumpus room. A place to let loose, to trash, to spew, to do the things you are not allowed to do in the “real world.” It’s time to make a mess.
The only three rules you’ll find in this book:
1. Do not try to make something beautiful.
2. Do not think too much. (There is no “wrong.”)
3. Continue under all circumstances.
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