BMJournal: Our Animal Companions - What Are They Thinking?

Animal Companions is a day planner altered book. It's the size of a checkbook cover. Contributors were allowed to use one month's pages and were to interpret what we thought our animal companions might think of. As I've been immersed in both doing Egyptian altered books and finding a home for two loveable cats since finding my son is severely allergic, cats it was. I have always loved a feline pal around. However, looking back at this, I think perhaps the cat is thinking something I might should I look at myself upon closer reflection.

BMJournal: The Black Book Of The Wanderer

The Black Book of the Wanderer is a little black leather bound Book Mooch Journal dedicated to Merlin the Magician. My contribution is a pencil sketch of Merlin in his robe and cap out under a moonlit sky.

BMJournal: I Want You To Leave Me Alone

If you aren't familiar with Emily the Strange, you should be. This little altered black spiral bound book has an ongoing story that is being added to. When I received the book, Emily was watching Ernie be bitten and scratched by cats after being subdued by the effects of her tasty banana bread concoction. (To get the recipe, sign up for a free book mooch account and mooch this book.)

Ernie manages to get up and Emily takes chase. I thought it the perfect time for her to break into song with Cat Scratch Fever, Pantera style.

BMJournal: 101 Ways To Simplify Your Life

This is the third altered book project I am releasing into the realm of the Book Mooch Journals Project. Part of a series, I have sent three such books into the world of creative moochers. The other two are:

101 Ways To Be A Great Mom
101 Ways to Relax And Reduce Stress

Hopefully, the artistic moochers who add to this altered journal will email me some jpegs to add to the blog so you all can see their creative genius.

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BMJournal: 101 Ways To Be A Great Mom

Here's my second contribution to the Book Mooch Journals pool. I found this "101 Ways" series of three books at Dollar General in Howell and picked them up. Perfect for altering, and this book will make a fun gift for some mom I know depending on how it all turns out!

Again, this this one, I have no idea where the cartoon is from to credit it. It was in a folder of clips from the newspaper that I found amusing at one point. Family is about togetherness, and often that means toughing out the rough spots and ending up "at the edge of a hideous sea of weeds."

The image on the back cover is a cartoon from Rose Is Rose.

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BMJournal: 101 Ways To Relax And Reduce Stress

This is the first Book Mooch Journal I am sending off into the unknown world of Book Mooch Journalers. This book simply begged to be altered and I'm certain the creative moochers out there will share their own unique ways to relax and reduce stress, which no doubt include reading books.

I wish I could give adequate credit to the monkeys jumping on the couch cartoon I placed on the cover, but alas it was in a folder of clippings that didn't include the rest of it. It's from the newspaper and signed MT. Best I can do on that. I do not know anything about the cartoon on the back except that it made my youngest son belly laugh and it came from a newspaper, most liekly syndicated in the Detroit News.

If you would like to participate in this altered book project, you will have to be a Book Mooch member. It's easy and free to sign up.